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costa and M ; subbasal and postmedial glossy black patches, as in 

 most Athyrma species, the basal one triangular, distally and posteriorly 

 indented, connected with costa by a broad black streak ; medial band 

 much more oblique than in bubo and less conspicuously pale, the double 

 brown lines at its distal edge angled inward at M and broadly excurved 

 behind costa and M ; a postmedial black bar at costa, not reaching the 

 black patch, which is shaped somewhat as in bubo but is larger, less 

 proximally indented and continued to a point at middle of fold ; wing 

 before and behind the postmedial patch tinged with reddish ; an ill- 

 defined, very irregularly dentate subterminal line and terminal dark 

 shading somewhat as in bubo. 



Hind wing fuscous with traces of a subterminal dark line towards 

 tornus. 



Underside of both wings greyish-fuscous, the hind wing with white 

 cell-dot and slight dark postmedial line, angled behind K 1 . 



? , 56 mm. 



Antenna almost simple ; hair on tibia shorter than in the $ ; 

 segment 2 of palpus about 3 mm., segment 3 about 2J mm. Fore 

 wing slightly more richly coloured than in the $ , with the postmedial 

 dark patch reduced on distal side (more as in bubo) ; hind wing and 

 underside much as in the $ . Anal tuft of abdomen beneath deep 

 orange. 



South- West Sumatra : North Korintji Valley, 5,000 feet, September- 

 October, 1921, one $ , one ? ; slopes of Mount Korintji, 7,300 feet, 

 August-September, 1921, three ? ? . 



25. Eumaenas salaminia F. nigricilia subsp. nov. 

 $ , 86 mm. ; ? , 84 mm. 



Head, body above and fore wing much as in typical salaminia F. 

 (Noctua salaminia F., Ent. Syst., iii, 2, p. 17 [1794] [E. India]), but 

 the green tones rather darker, more olivaceous, and the green shading 

 at base and along costa of fore wing rather broader, leaving only a 

 very narrow pale edge to the deep-green area. 



Hind wing with the black border starting from about three-fifths 

 costa and gradually narrowing to just before SM 2 , slightly angled inward 

 on and outward behind M 2 , not otherwise waved or dentate though 

 somewhat curved ; the black patch behind middle of wing starting from 

 M 1 or scarcely before it (not from E 3 as in typical specimens) and much 

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