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9 with the spot on 4th somite and the ii-regular marks on 7th and 8th 

 pinkish-white. (Fellowes Wilson). 



26976. Calesia canescens, n. sp. 



9 . Pale-grey-brown ; head, collar, thorax below, and abdomen crimson ; 3rd 

 joint of palpi, antennas, and tarsi black ; wings quite uniform grey-brown. 



Habitat.— ^Mxim, 1800' (Dudgeon). Exp. 50 mill. Type—In B. M. 



2705a. Mkcodina cyanodonta, n. sp. 



9, Eufous brown ; thorax except collar and abdomen suffused with bluish 

 grey. Forewing with the basal half suffused with blue-grey ; fine indistinct 

 waved rufous lines on basal area followed by a black point in cell ; an oblique 

 medial rufous line ; reniform outlined with rufous ; outer half rufous with 

 indistinct blue-grey line near its inner edge, excurved below costa, then very 

 highly dentate ; darker rufous streaks in the interspaces of outer area ; traces 

 of a waved subterminal blue-grey line below apex and some points towards 

 tornus, Hindwing with the basal half suffused with blue-grey ; the outer half 

 rufous wilh dark streak in the interspaces ; a blue-grey patch on termen at 

 apex and some points towards tornus. Underside brown with traces of three 

 darker lines on medial area. 



Habitat.— 'Khisi^. Exp. 44 mill. Type— In Coll., Elwes. 



2710a, Mecodina subjecta, Wlk., xxxiii, 1012. 



9. Yellow-brown ; head and collar grizzled with white ; thorax and 

 abdomen tinged with fuscous and with grey below. Forewing with 

 bisinuate fuscous antemedial line ; a whitish line on discocellulars ; a medial 

 line highly excurved beyond cell, then oblique ; a postmedial oblique line 

 angled below costa ; the outer area suffused with fuscous and with a deeper 

 fuscous mark on costa before apex. Hinlwing with fuscous antemedial 

 line excurved below costa ; a medial line oblique towards inner margin ; an 

 obscure bisinuate subterminal line ; the apical area suffused with fuscous. 

 Underside with white suffusion beyond the postmedial line. 



5a Seiai.— Bhutan (Dudgeon) ; Sierra Leone (Clements) ; Cape Colony. 

 Exp. 52 mill. Type-In B. M. 



The specimens from Africa are more suffused with fuscous than the one 

 from Bhutan. 



2729ci. Zethes steniptera, n. sp. 



9. Dark-brown ; head and thorax slightly pencilled with grey ; tarsi 

 and abdomen with greyish segmental lines. Forewing with dark 

 antemedial line edged with ochreous on inner side, slightly curved and bent 

 inwards above inner margin ; the postmedial line straight, hardly angled 

 at middle and edged with ochreous on outer side, between it and the pale 

 sinuous punctiform subterminal line suffused with purplish grey. Hindwing 

 dark-fuscous, the underside irrorated with grey. 



Z/aJ?:<a<.— Sikhim, 1800' (Dudgeon). Exp. 28 mill. Type— In B. M. 



2737. Zeches NiaRiuNEA, insert (syn.) Zethes oohrodes, Swinh., A. M,N. H, 

 (7),3,p..U5. 



