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white. Forewing grass-green ; a white spot at base below cell ; a sub- 

 basal black mark on inner area followed by black and white spots on costa 

 and in cell and white streaks in submedian fold and on vein 1 ; antemedial black 

 points on costa, below cell and on inner margin ; claviform white ; orbicular 

 and reniform white defined by black, the former small, round, the latter with 

 black point on it and its lower edge excised ; a black medial line oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved and expanding round outer 

 edge of claviform ; the veins beyond the cell streaked with white and with a 

 series of black points on them ; costa with black and white points towards apex ; 

 a subterminal black band with dentate white marks on it at veins 6'8'2 ; black 

 spots just before termen below apex and vein 6 ; cilia chequered black and 

 white. Hindwing black ; cilia black and white. Underside of forewing black 

 with white marks on costa and termen ; hindwing white irrorated with black 

 very thickly on costal area, irregularly waved medial and postmedial lines and 

 a diffused subterminal line. 



Habitat. — Travancore, PirmM (R. S. Imray). Exp. 38 mill. Type in B. M. 



1769. c. Perciana violescens. n. sp. 



$ . Head fuscous brown mixed with grey ; palpi white in front ; teguke 

 tipped with white : pectus and legs white, the tarsi banded with brown ; 

 abdomen fuscous brown with white band at base, the anal tuft ochreous. 

 Fovewing fuscous brown ; two obliquely placed black points at base ; a white 

 point at middle of cell ; a fine whitish postmedial line oblique from costa to 

 vein 5, then retracted to lower angle of cell, excurved in submedian interspace 

 and above inner margin and angled inwards on vein 1, with diffused violaceous 

 grey beyond it ; an indistinct waved subterminal line with two black points 

 on it below costa, excurved at middle, then incurved ; a series of dark stria? 

 on costa towards apex and on termen. Hindwing pale fuscous brown ; the 

 underside paler with dark discoidal lunule and indistinct curved postmedial 

 line. 



Habitat. — Travancore, Pirmad (R. S. Imray) ; Bali (Doherty). Exp. 16 

 mill. Type in B. M. 



1971. a. Perciana obscura. n. sp. 



$. Pale-brown strongly irrorated with dark-brown and fuscous ; abdomen 

 with the large basal tuft black. Forewing with a slight purplish tinge ; a 

 diffused oblique black medial band from upper angle of cell to inner margin, 

 the area beyond it suffused with black ; an obscure pale postmedial line 

 obliaue from costa to discal fold where it is angled ; some pale and black 

 points on costa towards apex ; a terminal series of black striae. Hindwing 

 fuscous. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Gampola (Mackwood). Exp. 26 mill. Type in B.M. 



1981. Bryophila khasiana, insert Euplexia repetita, Swinh. A.M.N. H. 

 (7) XV., p. 499 (nee Butl.) 



1987. a. Erastria ferrimacula. n. sp. 



Hindwing with veins 3-4 stalked in male. 



