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string is black iu colour. The larva feeds on a very long-leafed soft grass. (Davidson, 

 Bell and Aitken.) 



Habitat. — Kanara, South India. 



Distribution. — A good and distinct species. The types in coll. Elwes came from 

 North Kanara. We have both sexes from Karwar, where Davidson, Bell and Aitken 

 bred it. The larva and pupa now figured are from Davidson's original drawings ; 

 Hampson records it from the Nilgiris. 



BARACUS SEPTENTRIONUM. 



Plate 788, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, ?. 



Baracus sepientrionum, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 379, pi. 18, 

 fig. 4, 4a, <J. Watson, Journ. Bo. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1886, p. 28. Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, 

 p. 464. Manders, id. 1890, p. 539. Watson, Hasp. Ind. p. 1.51 (1891); id. Proc. Zuol. Soc. 

 1893, p. 114. de Niceville, Gazetteer of Sikkim, Butt. p. 18.T (1894). Watson, Journ. Bo. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. ix. 189.5, p. 429. Elwes and Edwards, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1897, p. 171. 

 Adamson, Trans. N. H. Soc. Northutaberland, etc. 1908, p. 141. 



Imago. — Male. Ujjperside dark olive-brown. Forewing with an oblique short 

 streak below the middle of the costa with a still shorter one below it, generally 

 obscure, often absent, two sub-apical small spots and an indistinct small spot in the 

 disc in the second median interspace, all dull ochreous, sometimes obscure, sometimes 

 absent. Hindwlng without markings. Cilia of both wings brownish-ochreous. 

 Underside. Forewing black, the costa to the sub-costal vein, the apex broadly, and 

 the outer margin decreasingly dull pinkish-ochreous, varied by pale brown streaks in 

 the interspaces, the two sub-apical spots as on the upperside. Hindicing dull pinkish- 

 ochreous, the interspaces streaked with pale brown, the streak through the cell, usual 

 in the genus, more or less represented by the ground colour being left bare of the 

 brownish suffusion. Autennse blackish-brown, pinkish-ochreous beneath with brown 

 bands, and pinkish at the tip of the club ; palpi beneath with white hairs, head and 

 body above and below concolorous with the wings. 



Female like the male, the discal and sub-apical spots on the upperside of the 

 forewing somewhat prominent. 



Expanse of wings, $ ? IfV to 1^ inches. 



Habitat. — Assam, Sikkim, Burma. 



Distribution. — The type, a male, in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, came from 

 Cachar, Elwes and de Niceville record it from Sikkim, Elwes and Watson from 

 Beeling in Burma, Manders from the Shan States ; we have it from Katha iu 

 Burma. 



