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head ; antennas of female serrate ; tibiae with the spurs moderate. Porewing 

 with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4"5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 7'8"9'10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3 and 5 from close to 

 angle of cell ; 6*7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



1243a. Preparctia hannyngtoni, n. sp. (Plate F., f. 34."). 

 $ . Head black ; tegulae yellow ; thorax black with white streaks at sides 

 and small crimson spots behind tegulas ; coxae crimson, the femora and base of 

 hind tibiae above with crimson streaks ; abdomen crimson with dorsal series of 

 black bars, the ventral surface black with series of slight crimson bars. Fore- 

 wing black ; a subbasal creamy white striga from costa and antemedial bar 

 both connected with a streak on median nervure from base to origin of vein 2, 

 dilated and enclosing a slight black streak below tbe antemedial bar and met 

 at origin of vein 2 by a down curved streak from base in submedian inter- 

 space ; a creamy white striga from middle of costa ; a curved band from costa 

 beyond middle to lower angle of cell where it is produced outwards to a point, 

 the band giving off an oblique bar from its outer edge below costa ; postme- 

 dial line creamy white, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique and 

 slightly sinuous ; a narrow creamy white subterminal band, excurved from 

 ■costa to vein 5, slightly incurved at vein 3, and at submedian fold, forming a 

 wedge-shaped patch connected with the postmedial line ; the cilia and the 

 inner margin narrowly creamy white. Hindwing crimson ; an oblique black 

 band from costa before middle to vein 1 ; a large discoidal lunule and spot 

 above it on costa ; postmedial band black, obliquely curved from below costa 

 where it arises, to vein 1 where it terminates in a quadrate patch connected 

 with the medial band, with which it is also connected by a wedge-shaped 

 patch at vein 2 ; subterminal band black, curved, from costa to submedian 

 fold, dilated at discal fold and vein 2 ; a triangular patch above tornus ; a fine 

 black terminal line from apex to vein 2 ; cilia yellow ; the underside with 

 the costal area yellow. 



Habitat.— Kumaon, Niti Pass, 10,000' (Hannyngton). Exp. 58 mill. Type in 

 B.M. * 



12796. Utetheisa pulchelloides, Hmpsn., A. M. N. H. (7), XIX, p. 239 

 (1907). (Plate G-., f. 19). 



Differs from U. pulcliella in the antennae of male being serrate instead of 

 ciliated and in the hindwing having a fold and tuft on inner area. 



It varies much in the same way as U. pulchella but never seems to lose the 

 black spots of fore wing which usually has the ground colour rather white ; in 

 specimens from the New Hebrides and Solomons the black terminal band on 

 hindwing is largely developed. It appears to be confined to Oceanic and other 

 Islands and to N. Australia. 



Habitat. — Seychelles ; Cargados Carejoz ; Coetivy ; A3iiraNtes ; Chagos 

 Is. ; Ceylon, Kandy, Peradenyia, Hambantota, Trincomali ; Cocos Keeling 

 Is ; Christmas Is. ; Singapore ; Formosa ; Loo-Choo Is. ; New Guinea ; 

 N. Australia; Queensland -Solomon Is.; Gilbert Is.; Marshall Ibj 

 Fllice Is. Exp. 34-44 mill. 



