1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 431 



Abraxas poliaria, n. sp. 



Male and female. Wings cinereous brown ; both sexes sparsely 

 irrorated witb orange-yellow ; an ill-defined dusky spot at end of the 

 cell in the fore wing, and a less defined transverse discal and a medial 

 narrow shade on both wings; the discal shade on the fore wing being 

 slightly recurved, the medial straight, and those on the hind wing, 

 when apparent, incurved ; body deep yellow, spotted with slaty black ; 

 antennae in male thick, setaceous, slender in female ; antennae and 

 legs slaty black. 



Expanse of wings, c? 1^, $ 1|^ inch. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills, 6/00 feet. Four pairs received from Mr. 

 Hampson. 



Nearest to A. ditritaria. Walker, the wings of which, in both 

 sexes, are both densely covered with bluish-grey strigae, these strigae 

 being more or less confluent on the fore wing, and in the male en- 

 tirely covering that wing : the outer shady line on the fore wing has a 

 blackish point on each vein. The antennae of the male of A. ditri- 

 taria are slender and minutely ciliated on both sides. In A.poliaria 

 the antennae of the male are thicker and somewhat flattened. 



Abraxas ostrina, n. sp. 



Male. Antennae, head, body above and below, and legs and wings 

 above and below of a uniform dark violaceous greyish black ; fore 

 wings above with a yellowish basal spot, two antemedial and two sub- 

 apical costal yellow marks like short inward streaks, and a similar 

 whitish mark in the middle of the abdominal margin of the hind 

 wings, with a corresponding spot on the costa, and a point between 

 like the indication of a medial hue. Underside same as above, but in 

 one of the examples some of the spots above and below are absent ; 

 head and thorax marked with bright ochreous, abdomen with similarly 

 coloured bands ; below, there is one ochreous spot in the centre of the 

 abdomen, and some ochreous tufts at the base of the legs. 



The female differs from the male in being somewhat paler and 

 having the pale yellowish-white costal marks larger, and in having 

 a broad disjohited white band containing one or two black spots 

 across the centre of the hind wings ; underside same as upperside. 



Expanse of wings l^^-l^y- inch. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills. Three perfect specimens received from Mr. 

 Hampson. 



Distinguishable from all other described Indian species by its in- 

 tensely dark colour and pecuharly disposed markings. 



Abraxas todara, n. sp. (Plate XLIV. figs. 13, 14.) 



Male itnd female. Yellowish white; head and body yellow, spotted 

 with black ; legs yellowish beneath and purple-brown above ; antennae 

 black ; fore wings sparsely speckled with dark purple-brown and 

 with five large equidistant patches on the costal border, the latter, 

 excepting the basal patch, are more or less confluent, with a trans- 

 versely disposed irregular-shaped medial and discal patch ; cilia 



