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the basal half of the hinder margin ; two quadrate greyish-white spots in the disc 

 near the bases of the sub-median interspaces, with an obscure spot l)elow them, all 

 three divided from each other by veins 2 aud 3, three spots above them near the 

 costa divided by the veins, the uppermost one small and obscure. IIind)vlng as in the 

 male, the costal blackish-brown band much broader, and some short pale blackish 

 streaks from the base of the wing in the greyish-white space. Underside as in the 

 male, the discal and sub-costal spots as on the uj)perside. 



Expanse of wings,. ^ l'i%, % l\ inches. 



Habitat. — Cevlon. 



DisTRiBDTiON.— In our collection from Nuwara Eliva, also recorded from 

 Ambagamma, and said to be common in the grassy places and swamps 2,000 feet and 

 upwards, being most numerous from December to March. 



BARACUS SUBDITUS. 

 Plate 787, figs. 2, i , 2a, ? , 2b, <J . 



BaracuB suhditus, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. .'i34. Hampson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, 

 p. 365. Watson, Hesp. Ind. p. 1.51 (1891) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1893, p. 114 ; kl. Journ. Bo. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 1895, p. 429. Elwes aud Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 17]. Evans, 

 Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. xx. 1910, p. 388. 



Baracus vittatus, Fergusson (nee Felder), Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 447. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark olive-brown. Forewing with some pale, dull 

 pinkish streaks from the base near the costa and in the cell, a double ochreous 

 elongated spot, with a small indistinct spot above it below the costa one-third from 

 the apex, and four similar spots in a line beneath them in the median inter.spaces 

 and the two interspaces beneath them, some of these spots being sometimes more or 

 less indistinct. Ilindwing without markings. Cilia of both wings ochreous. Under- 

 side. Forewiiig much as in B. vittatus, but the inner black portion of the wing is 

 usually more squarely shaped. Ilindwing with the whitish cell streak and the streak 

 on the inner side of the abdominal space narrower than they are in B. vittatus, and 

 there are several additional narrow, whitish streaks running in from near the outer 

 margin. Antennae blackish-brown, .spotted with ochreous- while on the underside ; 

 palpi beneath and pectus whitLsh, palpi above, head aud body above and below con- 

 colorous with the wings. 



Female like the male, but the spots on the forewing are usually much smaller. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? lyg inches. 



Habitat. — South India, Ceylon. 



Distribution, — The type, a female, came from Coonoor, in the Nilgiris ; it is in 

 our collection from Ootacamund, 3,000 feet elevation, and a male from Madras in which 



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