78 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



tliii'd anterior pair of eacli row slightly touchirig one anotlier. Underside pale 

 olivaceous-brown. Both wings with the submarginal and marginal spots as above. 

 Foreiving also with a very small violet-white costal spot, one within lower end of 

 the cell, two spots on the disc between the median veinlets, the lower spot large ; a 

 cinereous-brown elongated streak between the lower median and submedian vein, 

 below which the posterior margin is broadly cinereous. Hindwing also with a violet- 

 white dot within end of the cell, and a discal series of six dots ; some white dots at 

 base of the wing. Female. Upperside paler than in male. Both wings with 

 slightly larger submarginal and marginal white spots, the forewing having two 

 additional minute streaks between the subcostals. Forewing also with a distinct 

 small white costal spot, one within end of the cell, and one on the disc between the 

 upper and middle median veinlets. Underside paler olivaceou.s-brown than in male ; 

 marked as on upper side, and with the discal spots as in male, the cell spot on 

 the forewing being lunate, and the elongated streak below the median violet-white- 

 Body dark brown ; thorax in front and beneath, head, and palpi, black, prominently 

 white spotted, legs black, femora beneath white streaked. 



Expanse, S S^, $ 3J- inches. 



Habitat. — Sunderbunds, Lower Bengal. 



A male and female of this sjDecies is in Colonel Swinhoe's collection, recently 

 received by him from Mr. L. De Niceville, and which was erroneously labelled in 

 the handwriting of the latter Entomologist as an example of Grastia vermiculata. 



TRONGA BISERIATA (Plate 21, fig. 1, la, b, c, d,^ ?). 

 Tronga biseriafa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 266, ,J . 

 Imago. — Male. Upperside. "Very dark purplish violaceous-brown, without 

 gloss. Forewing with a very small white spot on the costa above end of the cell, a 

 small spot on the disc between the upper and middle median veinlets, a submarginal 

 row of five (or sis) larger white spots, the second upper spot being the largest and 

 oval, the lower decreasing in size ; and a marginal row of small white spots. No 

 sexual mark. Hindwing with a submarginal and marginal (in some only the latter) 

 row of very small white spots ; anterior border broadly glossy-cinereous and clothed 

 with closely-applied somewhat narrow round-tipt scales, which are broader than 

 those on this part in Crastia Esperi. Underside somewhat paler, but of a brighter 

 tint. Both wings marked as on the upperside. Forewing also with a small violet- 

 white spot within end of the cell, and a large lobate discal spot between the middle 

 and lower median veinlets, and sometimes a slender upper discal spot beyond the 

 cell ; a broad streak between the lower median and submedian vein, clothed with 

 broad brown round-tipt scales, numerous very narrow laxly-projecting white scales 

 and some short thread-like white scales, the posterior border beneath being clothed 



