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erect ; a curved black discoidal striga ; postmedial line black, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then exeurved to vein 3 with 

 a slight inward curve at discal fold, at vein 3 retracted with a 

 downward curve to lower angle of cell, then erect and sinuous, 

 some slight blackish marks beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 blackish, slightly waved and interrupted, somewhat angled out- 

 wards below veins 7 and 4, then incurved ; a waved blackish 

 terminal line. Hind wing pure white. Underside white, the 

 costa of both wings slightly irrorated with brown ; fore wing 

 with some black points on terminal part of costa, a minutely 

 waved black terminal line, the cilia brown at tips; hind wing 

 with minutely waved black terminal line from apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial line not retracted to 

 lower angle of cell, but curved downwards between veins 3 and 2, 

 then erect. 



1908: Sept. 3,-1 ?; Sept. 17,-1 $; Sept. 18,-1 ? ab. 1 

 (B.M.) ; Sept. 19,-1 $ ; Sept. 23,-1 d ; Sept. 24,-1 $ ; Oct. 2, 

 —1 § ; Oct. 3,-1 c? (type); Oct. 24,-2 J (1 in B.M.). 1909: 

 Mar. 10,-1 2 (B.M.); Mar. 17,-^1 $; Mar. 29,-1 $; Apr. 8, 

 — 1 $ . Exp. 22 millim. 



AUCHENISA CERURODES, Sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 43, J .) 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with some rufous and black; 

 antennee rufous ; palpi black towards base ; tarsi black ; abdomeii 

 white, dorsal ly mixed with rufous and black. Fore wing white 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous brown ; black streaks on vein 1 

 and inner margin to near middle ; an antemedial black patch 

 on costa with slight sinuous line from its outer edge to submedian 

 fold ; an oblique blackish shade just beyond the cell between 

 veins 6 and 2 ; a blackish discoidal spot defined at sides by 

 white ; postmedial line double, the outer line black, the inner 

 line black at costa, then slight brown and minutely waved, 

 curved, from costa to vein 2, an oblique wedge-shaped black- 

 brown patch beyond it on costal area ; traces of an oblique 

 slightly waved brownish subterminal line ; a terminal series of 

 black striae. Hind wing semihyaline white, a black discoidal 

 lunule and terminal series of small black spots, minute towards 

 apex. Underside white ; both wings with black discoidal spots 

 and terminal series of striae ; fore wing with the costa suffused 

 with brown expanding towards apex and with white postmedial 

 mark on it. 



1909 : Oct. 22,-3 S (including type). Uxp. 32 millim. 



Catephia pyramidalis, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 45, ij .) 



<S 2 • Head and thorax brown mixed with grey- white; palpi 

 white in fi^ont ; pectus white ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen whitish, dorsally suffused with brown, the crests blackish. 

 Fore wing grey suffused and irrorated with dark brown ; subbasal 

 line black, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line black, 

 waved ; claviform defined by black ; orbicular defined by black 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1916, Ko. IX. 9 



