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black defined on inner side by white, excurved below costa and afc 

 middle and more strongly to inner margin, where there is an 

 oblique black bar before it ; the medial area with oblique bright 

 red- brown fascia from median nervure through the claviform to 

 the postmedial line at inner margin ; claviform defined by black, 

 extending to median nervure, oblique and acute at extremity ; 

 orbicular and reniform with white annuli rather incompletely 

 defined by brown, the former with brownish centre, round, the 

 latter with its centre faintly defined by brown and with smfill 

 brown spot in lower part, large, elliptical ; postmedial line black, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa then slightly sinvious, rather 

 oblique to vein 4 then incurved, a faint brown line beyond it to 

 vein 4 ; an oblique red-brown shade from apex and faint post- 

 medial line, angled outwards at vein 3 ; a waved black terminal 

 line forming points at the interspaces ; a fine white line at base 

 of cilia. Hind wing pure white, the terminal area fuscous brown 

 from apex to vein 2. Underside of fore wing white, the terminal 

 area broadly suffused with fuscous. 



1908 : Oct. 3,-1 S (type). Exp. 24 millim. 



Catephia eurymelas, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 49, <5 •) 

 S $ . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown, the 

 teguUe with black lines ; f rons with lateral black bars ; palpi white 

 with some black at sides of 2nd and 3rd joints; pectus white: 

 le"s white tinged with rufous, the tarsi rufous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen rufous, the crests blackish, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing grey suffused in parts with reddish brown, an oblique 

 whitish shade from costa towards apex to end of cell ; a subbasal 

 black striga from costa and oblique streak above vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line doable, the outer line black, the inner indistinct, 

 waved, angled inwards above inner margin ; claviform slightly 

 defined by black, narrow ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 black, the former round, the latter incompletely defined on outer 

 side and with blackish mark in lower part; postmedial line 

 blackish, bent outwards below costa, then sinuous, oblique to 

 vein 3, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line reddish brown, diffused on inner side, oblique, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing white, the terminal area broadly black-brown 

 from apex to submedian fold, then narrowly black-brown, the 

 inner margin tinged with brown ; cilia white with some black- 

 brown at veins 2 and 1. Underside white, the terminal areas of 

 both wings broadly blackish to submedian fold leaving some 

 whitish on costa and termen of fore wing and at apex of hind 

 wing. 



Ab. 1. Patagia and basal half of fore wing strougly suffused 

 with black-brown, the latter with the terminal half whiter 

 slightly tinged with brown and with blackish marks at apex, at 

 discal fold beyond the postmedial line and at termen and between 

 terminal parts of veins 3 and 2. 



