112 MESSES. H. J. ELWES AND JAMES EDWAEDS : 



yet we have in many cases been obliged to dissent from the opinions he arrived at, 

 probably because the material at our disposal is much more complete than his at 

 the time he wrote. 



The following is a list of the species known to us ; the value of the characters relied 

 on for their discrimination has been carefully considered and supplemented by an 

 examination of the male genitalia of numerous specimens : — 



1 (58) Hind wing below, not brown with a narrow yellow spot on 



the transverse vein, its fringes not pale unspotted yellow. 



2 (55). Fore wing with a pale spot in each of cells 6, 7, and 8. 



3 (14). Pore wing with a small pale spot near the base of cell la'. 



4 (13) . Macular band on fore wing pure white. 



5 (8). Basal spot in cell la of fore wing yellow. 



6 (7). Male: shaft of antennae white in front throughout; hind 



wing distinctly produced on vein 1 b. Expanse 62 mm. pero, de Nicev. 



7 (6) .Male: shaft of antennse white in front only near the base 



of the club ; hind wing rounded, not produced on vein 1 b. 



Expanse 49 mm pulomaya, Moore. 



8 (5) . Basal spot in cell 1 a of fore wing white. 



9 (10). Hind wing below with two well-defined yellow spots in the 



middle of the cell, the lower one joined to the base by a 



yellow streak maculosa, Peld. 



10 (9). Hind wing below with only one pale spot in the middle of 



the cell. 



11 (12). Hind wing below with the pale spots orange- yellow ; fringe 



orange-yellow, scarcely interrupted with darker . . . aspersa, Leech. 



12 (11). Hind wing below with the pale spots cream-coloured; 



fringe chequered consanguinea, Leech. 



13 (4) . Macular band on fore wing above dirty white. Upperside 



grey-brown, fringes chequered ambareesa, Moore. 



14 (3). Fore wing with no pale spot near the base of cell 1 a. 



15 (16). Hind wing below (except a brown terminal band) orange- 



yellow, with several (about 9) black spots ^flavocincta, de Nicev. 



16 (15). Hind wing not as in 15. 



17 (34) . Fore wing above with the pale macular band pure white. 



18 (27) . Fore wing above ; extreme base of cell 3 not filled up 



with white. 



19 (26) . Hind wing above not conspicuously clothed vrith brownish- 



yellow scales and hairs almost to the termen. 



' Very rarely this spot is traceable in the female of leucocera, KoU. 



- This species will probably be found to belong to the group (par. 3 supra) which has a small pale spot near 

 the base of cell 1 a of the fore wing, as such a spot is iudicated in a male specimen from the Miiller collection ; 

 the point, however, is of no consequence, as the species is distinguished from all its congeners by the pattern and 

 coloration of the hind wing below. 



