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bands, one being situated at tbe base, and the other on the fourth 

 segment ; top of head, thorax, and margin of the other abdominal 

 segments, indigo-blue ; antennae bipectinated. Expanse of wings 

 1-iVin. 



The larva and cocoon of Ph. Horsfieldi are figured on Plate XIV., 

 figs. 9, 9a, from Java. " Feeds on a species of Dioscorea, bearing the 

 native name of Buduk-assu. From the Southern Hills. December. 

 Scarce."— (Horsfield, MS.) 



Genus PHAUDA, Walker. 



Efchbomia (Phattda), Walker, List Lep. Set. Brit. Mus. pt. I. 



p. 256 (1854). 

 Xenares, Herr. Schdffer, Lep. JExot. Spec. Nov. pp. 58, 81 



(1858). 



774. PHAUDA FLAMMANS, Walker. 



Euchromia (Phauda) flammans, Walker, List Lep. Set. 

 Brit. Mus.pt. I. p. 257 (1854). 



a. Darjeeling. From Indian Collection, Exposition 

 Universelle at Paris, 1855. 



775. PHAUDA (?) MAHISA, Moore. 



Phauda Mahisa, Moore, P. Z. S. (1859), p. , pi. , 



fig- • 



a. Java. From Dr. Horsfield's Collection. 



Phauda (?) Mahisa, n. sp. — Wings pale smoky-black ; a band along 

 entire length of costal margin of fore-wing, and along costal and 

 abdominal margins of hind-wing, and oody pale red ; antennae slightly 

 serrated. Expanse of wings 1^ in. 



Genus SOEITIA, Walker. 

 Soeitia, Walker, List Lep. Set. Brit.Mus.pt. II. p. 435 (1854). 



776. SORITIA LEPTALINA, Kollar Sp. 



Chalcosia leptalina, Kollar, in SilgeVs Kaschmir, IV. 

 pt. II. p. 462 (1844). 



Soritia leptalina, Walker, List Lep. Set. Brit. Mus. 

 pt. II. p. 435. 



