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the apex ; with a very indistinct recurved discal transverse series 

 of small black spots and outer recurved speckled fascia ; a few in- 

 distinct black spots on cilia just below tlie apex : hind wing pale 

 straw-yellow. Underside uniformly paler ochreous. Body pale 

 yellowish ochreous ; front and middle legs brighter ochreous. 



Expanse Ig incli. 



Hah. Penang. In coll. F. Moore. 



Genus Axylia, HUbner. 



AXYLIA RENALIS, n. Sp. 



Fore wing pale reddish-ochreons, with the costal border iron- 

 grey ; orbicular and reniform spot very prominent, black-lined, and 

 centred with iron-grey ; veins speckled with grey and black ; a 

 black fascia extending through the cell to outer margin ; a black 

 subbasal transverse sinuous double line, some discal spots, and a 

 marginal row of dentate spots : hind wing pale brownish white, 

 darker along costal border. Thorax black above, ochreous laterally 

 and in front ; abdomen pale brown ; palpi black, tipped with 

 ochreous ; legs black, fore and middle tibiae ochreous. 



Expanse Ipjjjnch. 



Hah. Sind valley, Kashmir ; Solun, Punjab. In coll. F. Moore. 



Allied to the European A.putris. 



Axylia fasciata, n. sp. 



Fore wing pale yellowish ochreous, with a longitudinal blackish 

 fascia through the lower part of the cell to outer margin, the area 

 below it being slightly greyish ; a black streak below the cell ; 

 median veins grey-speckled, the second upper median branch white 

 with black intervening lines ; discal area above the fascia and the 

 posterior margin suffused with reddish ochreous, and white below 

 the fascia; orbicular and reniform spots formed of interrupted 

 black lines, with an almost confluent black interspace ; some in- 

 distinct black dots obliquely across the disk : hind wing ochreous- 

 white, outer border slightly dusky, marginal line black. 



Expanse 1-j^ inch. 



Hah. Solun, Punjab ; Ceylon. In coll. F. Moore. 



Axylia irrorata, n. sp. 



Fore wing pale yellowish ochreous, profusely black-speckled, 

 most thickly and somewhat confluent through the lower end of 

 the cell to the exterior margin ; orbicular and reniform spot im- 

 perfectly formed of black speckles, with an intervening black spot ; 

 an indistinct discal row of blackish speckles and marginal series of 

 dots : hind wing white, with brownish border and marginal dots. 

 Body, palpi, and legs pale ochreous ; thorax and palpi black- 

 speckled. 



Expanse \^ inch. 



Hah. N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. 



