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edge from cell to inner margin strongly excurved above vein 1 and edged 

 with white ; a black point in middle of cell ; the terminal half fuscous black, 

 deep black, except on costal area, towards the medial white line which is 

 oblique from subcostal nervure to submedian fold ; postmedial line, sub- 

 terminal and terminal whitish points as in male. Hindwing brown suffused 

 with fuscous. 



2649. a. Calpe nubifera, n. sp. 



$. Head and. thorax ochreous mottled with brown; palpi tinged with 

 fulvous ; abdomen ochreous. Forewing brownish ochreous thickly mottled 

 with dark olive-brown ; traces of three oblique lines on basal area ; a more 

 distinct diffused very oblique medial line; an oblique pale ochreous sub- 

 terminal line arising from termen just below apex and strongly excurved at 

 middle. Hindwing ochreous tinged with rufous brown especially towards 

 termen. 

 Habitat. — S. India, Rajahmahendri (Bird.) Exp. 32 mill. Type in B. M. 

 Under Mecodina insert Bathanta, Wlk. XXXIII., p. 82 (1865). Tjpebisignata 

 for Sect. VI. 



2706. b. Mecodina ceruleosparsa, n. sp. 



$. Head and thorax dark olive-brown irrorated with blue-white; tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous mixed with grey. Forewings black- 

 brown with an olive tinge ; a slight blueish white subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold, with some blue-white irroration between it and the fine 

 sinuous antemedial line which is angled outwards below costa ; a white point 

 in middle of cell ; a medial band of blueish white irroration followed by an 

 indistinct waved and curved black medial line ; postmedial line blueish- white, 

 excurved from below costa to vein 4, then incurved and angled outwards at vein 

 I, a band of blue-white irroration before it from costa to Tern 6 and patches 

 beyond it below costa and from vein 3 to inner margin ; a sinuous subterminal 

 line strongly incurved and obsolescent near vein 3 and with pale brown spots 

 on it at discal and submedian folds and slight marks above the former, the 

 area beyond it irrorated with blue-white from costa to vein 5 ; cilia with some 

 white at tips. Hindwings fuscous ; a fine white medial line with some white 

 irroration beyond it towards tornus ; an indistinct brownish subterminal line 

 except towards costa, slightly defined by blackish on inner side ; a fine pale line 

 at base of cilia ; the underside with the basai half suffused with white, a dark 

 antemedial line bent outwards at middle ; a minutely waved white medial 

 line, an interrupted sinuous subterminal line. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis. Exp. 34 mill. Type in B. M. 

 2708. Will stand as Mecodina pjlacida Hmpsn. (nee. Moore). 

 2717. Mecodina prcecipua, insert Bccihanta bisignata, Wlk,, XXXIII., 983 

 (1865) which has precedence and ctypansa bocanidia, Butl. A.M. N. H. (5), 

 x. p. 231 (1882). = the turbida form. 



Perak ; Siam ; Borneo ; Polo laut ; Java ; Timor ; New Guinea ; 

 B*uke of York I. 



