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165. Epifidonia signata, sp. n. (Plate XXXV. fig. 9.) 

 Chocolate-brown ; costa and discoidal area of primaries and centre 



of secondaries more or less suffused with ochraceous, the costal area of 

 the latter wings, excepting at apex, widely bright ochreous ; wings 

 striated throughout with black, the primaries crossed in the middle 

 by two well-separated blackish stripes, angulated towards costal 

 margin ; an oblique snow-white subcostal spot near apex ; secon- 

 daries with a double blackish line from centre of abdominal margin 

 to discoidal cell : body greyish : wings below bright ochreous Avith 

 broad dark-brown tapering apical borders and a number of scattered 

 black striations ; primaries with a discal abbreviated band com- 

 mencing below the white subapical spot ; two central black 

 lines ; secondaries with an ill-de6ned central black line ; pectus 

 whitish, venter ochraceous. Expanse of wings 29 millim. 

 Murree, 2nd, 9th, and 28th August, 1885. 



Zerenid .E. 



166. Abraxas fuscescens, sp. n. (Plate XXXV. fig. 10.) 



Primaries whity brown, speckled and mottled with blackish ; base 

 of costa ochreous ; two widely separated divergent bands of spots, 

 formed by blackish mottling, limiting the central area ; a spot of a 

 similar character on the costa just beyond the middle, an oblique 

 oval spot at the end of the cell, and a spot immediately beyond 

 the outer band at centre of second median interspace : secondaries 

 sericeous creamy white, sparsely speckled with dark grey ; a spot at 

 the end of the cell and a slightly sinuous discal series of the same 

 colour : head, collar, and tegulse ochreous spotted with black, 

 remainder of body cream-coloured with dorsal black spots : pri- 

 maries below paler than above, the costa slightly ochraceous ; body 

 below yellowish cream-coloured, the venter with four series of black 

 spots. Expanse of wings 48 millim. 



Kalabagh, 16th September, 1885. 



16/. Abraxas virginalis, sp. n. (Plate XXXV. fig. 11.) 



Wings above pure white ; base of primaries ochreous, dotted with 

 black and bounded by an irregular series of brownish dots ; an im- 

 perfect band at basal fourth and the costa mottled with pale silver- 

 grey ; an annulus of the same colour closing the cell ; two contiguous 

 sinuous series of annular silver-grey spots across the disk, the inner 

 series with black-dotted ochreous centres ; an ochreous streak partly 

 connecting the two series between the third median branch and the 

 inner margin ; three larger grey spots and a number of scattered 

 annular dots beyond the discal series ; six ocelloid marginal spots 

 extending into the fringe : secondaries almost exactly as in A. pan- 

 taria ; body paler than in the latter species : under surface of wings 

 more strongly marked than above, but without the ochreous tinting. 

 Expanse of wings 44 millim. 



Murree, 13th August, 1885. 



