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pectus and legs brown mixed with grey, the tarsi riuged with 

 Qchreous ; abdomen grey-brown with a faint bluish gloss on dorsum. 

 Fore wing dull olive-brown irrorated with bhie-grey, the outer part 

 of medial area and the terminal area except below apex suffused 

 with blue-grey ; traces of a slightly waved grey antemedial line ; 

 two small dark discoidal spots ; medial line indistinct, dark, slightly 

 waved, incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, 

 oblique and defined on outer side by whitish from costa to vein 6, 

 then waved, incurved below vein 4, a rather conical patch of blue- 

 grey suffusion bej'ond it on costal area and some ochreous white points 

 on costa ; a sinuous whitish subterminal line from costa to vein 6, 

 then faint traces of a waved dark line ; a series of slight dark and 

 whitish points just before termen and a fine pale line at base of 

 cilia. Hind wing dark fuscous brown with some bluish suffusion 

 on inner area ; a large pure white apical patch extending to vein 4, 

 its inner edge sinuous ; the terminal area slightly irrorated with 

 whitish towards tornus. Underside fuscous brown irrorated with 

 whitish ; fore wing with broad oblique white band with waved 

 edges from beyond upper angle of cell to tornus and some whitish 

 suffusion on terminal area except towards tornus ; hind wing with 

 indistinct curved medial and postmedial lines, slightly waved in- 

 distinct whitish subterminal line excurved below vein G, and some 

 white irroration on apical area. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial area brownish ochreous, the 

 postmedial line defined by brownish ochreous. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the medial area white, on inner area the 

 white reduced to a spot on vein 1. 



Ab. 3. reversa. Fore wing with the markings almost obsolete. 



Hah. ? Madras; Cbylot^ (Teuqjleton, Lindesay), 4 c? , 6 $ types 

 reversa and lugens, Kandy (Yerbwy), 1 cJ , 2 $ , Trincomali 

 {Yerbury), 1 ?. Exp. 48-66 millim. 



Larva. Olive-grey with numerous longitudinal lines ; a paler 

 lateral band ; ventral surface pinkish ; anal somite with two dorsal 

 yellow tubercles ; head yellowish with black lines. Food-plant, 

 Cantliium. 



*7643. Achaea stumpffi. 



Achcea stum'pffii, Saalm. Ber. Senct. Ges. 1880, p. 282 ; id. Lep. Madag. 

 p. 463, f. 213. 



5 . Head and thorax rufous ; antennae blackish with the basal 

 joint whitish ; palpi, pectus, and legs grey mixed with dark brown ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface grey towards base. Fore 

 wing rufous tinged with violaceous grey except on terminal area ^ 

 a minute tuft of white scales at base ; antemedial line double, 

 fuscous, oblique, waved ; a blackish point in middle of cell and 

 three discoidal points ; medial line indistinct, double, waved, ex- 

 curved beyond the cell, then incurved ; postmedial line fuscous, 

 waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some ochreous points 



