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rufoscent olivaceous-brown, with prominent blue upper submarginal spots, and in 

 some an indistinct lower submarginal and marginal series of small wliitisb spots ; 

 with a large pale ochreotis upper discoidal patch, clothed with numerous laxly 

 packed overlapping narrow round-tipt scales ; costal border glossy cinereous brown. 

 Underside rich dark brown. Forewing with small bluish white costal, upper discal, 

 and very small submarginal and marginal spots ; a large violet-white lower discal 

 spot ; posterior border broadly cinereous, the basal area between the median and 

 submedian ochreous, the sextial mark clothed with very narrow longish brown and 

 white scales, which are densely but laxly packed and have a few scattered thread- 

 like intervening white scales, the ochreous adjacent area with long narrow taper- 

 pointed loosely packed scales, and the posterior border with widely separated very 

 narrow equally-pointed scales. Hindwing with prominent bluish-white small sub- 

 marginal and marginal row of spots ; some small white spots at the base. Body 

 dark purplish-brown ; head, palpi, thorax in front and beneath black, spotted with 

 white ; legs black ; abdomen beneath with slight greyish segmental bands. 



Expanse, c? 4 to 4j- inches. 



Habitat. — Kar Nicobar. 



This is a very rare species, for the possession of which I am indebted to Mrs. 

 F. de Roepstorff. 



SALPINX LEUCOGONYS (Plate 41, fig. 1, la, b, c, $ ?). 

 Salpinx leucogomjs, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 2nd ser. i. p. 536, pi. 68, fig. 5, ? (1877-9). 



Moore, Proc.Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 301. 

 Eui^lcea {Salpinx) vestigiata et leucogonys, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 69 (1882). 

 Euplaea vestigiata {part), Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 27 (1882). 

 Salpinx lazulina, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 300. 



Imago. — Male. Similar to 8. Novarce. Forewing blue glossed ; with a pale blue 

 costal spot, two slender upper discal spots and a lower discal spot, and pale blue 

 sexual streak between the median and submedian, and in some a slender spot below it ; 

 submarginal blue spots well defined, generally complete ; marginal spots, when 

 present, minute. Hindwing rufescent olivaceous-brown, dusky and tinged with blue 

 towards the lower base ; costal border glossy cinereous, with a large upper discoidal 

 ochreous patch, prominent white small upper submarginal spots and less defined 

 speckled- white lower submarginal spots, and more or less defined similar speckled-white 

 lower marginal spots. Female. TJpperside paler, more violaceous in tint, and less 

 blue-glossed. Foretvirig with pale blue costal spot, small submarginal spots, and a 

 pale blue narrow streak with sometimes a smaller contiguous lower streak (both being 

 sometimes confluent) between the lower median and submedian vein. Hindwing with 

 three upper submarginal white spots, and a lower submarginal and marginal ill- 

 defined white-speckled more or less confluent spots. Underside dark rich brown. 



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