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above reddish piceous : primaries darker than the secondaries, 
but with a paler almost clay-coloured external border, wide 
upon the costa, but tapering rapidly towards the external 
angle, its inner édge regularly arched ; a large elongated spot 
within the extremity of the cell, and an oblique series of about 
six narrow streaks between the veins from the upper radial 
to the interno-median interspace dull blue: secondaries with 
a sordid white submarginal band, crossed by numerous longi- 
tudinal brown lines on the veins and folds, much as in Luplea 
alcathoe, and followed by an imperfect series of whitish spots ; 
a small ochreous spot surmounted by a black crescent at anal 
angle: body velvety black, spotted with white. Wings 
below uniformly reddish brown; secondaries with the band 
of white streaks united to the outer spots; anal spot as above. 
Expanse of wings 87 millim. 
Thoungyeen valley, 26th February 1882. 
HETEROCERA. 
4. Epyrgis Bingham, sp. nu. 
Nearest to £. piertdoides of Herrich-Schiiffer: primaries 
above similarly marked, with black veins and blotches, but 
the ground-colour of a purer white tint, and_the costal, sub- 
costal, and median veins clothed with emerald-green or blue 
scales: secondaries white at base and near the borders, but 
the whole central area covered by a bright chrome-yellow 
patch ; costal and discocellular veins bluish; a narrow black 
external border, from which tapering streaks run inwards 
upon the veins from the costal to the first median branch: 
thorax above emerald-green, spotted with white; abdomen 
bronze greenish, with a double series of spots, and the hind 
margins of the segments white. Primaries below with the 
base of the cell and all the veins green, but the blotches black 
as above: secondaries nearly as above, but the costal and dis- 
cocellular veins black and the outer border green; pectus 
blue-green: legs brown and green above, white below; venter 
white, with a lateral series of greenish-black dashes. Expanse 
of wings 75 millim. 
“ Toonyah,” Thoungyeen valley, 20th October 1881. 
5. Histia cometaris, sp. n. 
g. Form of 7. flabellicornis; style of coloration of HZ. selene. 
Primaries above black to beyond the middle; grey, with 
dusky borders, black veins, and broad black longitudinal 
internervular stripes on the external area: secondaries above 
black, with the vems green; abdominal area soft greyish 
