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which colour assumes indistinct streaks between the veins on the hindwing. 

 Forewmg with the outer margin broadly washed with deep purple, the 

 inner margin broadly pale ochreous ; some pale streaks between the veins 

 beyond the end of the cell ; a round black spot at the extreme base of the 

 wing with a spot of bright orange above it ; hindwing with a similar but 

 larger black spot. Antennce dark brown above, ochreous below ; ^alpi 

 with the third joint dark brown, the second and first with the outer edge 

 brown, the rest orange, which is the colour of the legs, the underside of 

 the hody and the anal tuft. The female differs from the male only in 

 being larger and darker, the uppeeside of the hindwing concolourous with 

 the rest of the wing, not broadly pale ochreous as in the male. 



The male of this species closely resembles that sex of G. harisa, Moore 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 782), but differs in the forewing being 

 much narrower, and on the hindwing in having the costal pale patch more 

 restricted ; on the underside the markings are less prominent. I have 

 figured (Plate X, fig. 8, ^ ) a beautifully fresh male of C. harisa taken by 

 myself in Sikkini to show these differences more clearly. There is a male 

 of G. ? anadi from Masuri taken at 7,000 feet elevation on 27th May, 1868, 

 in Colonel Lang's collection. 



Genus Matapa, Moore. 



This genus has hitherto contained three species, described under the 

 genus Ismene by Mr. Moore in the Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1865, p. 784, 

 viz., aria, druna and sasivarna from Bengal, and a fourth very beautifully 

 and distinctly marked species, Matapa suhfasciata, from Ceylon, in his 

 *Lepidoptera of Ceylon.' I propose to describe a fifth species named 

 shalgrama. All the species except 31. suhfasciata are very closely allied, 

 yet in my opinion they can be separated, so constant in a large series of 

 each are the following characters. 



M. aria. Cilia of both wings yellowish-white. Underside ferrugi- 

 nous, in some specimens inclined to ochreous. The long hairs which clothe 

 the body and base of the wings both above and below are hardly perceptibly 

 irridescent greenish. Anal segment of the female furnislied with a very 

 close thick tuft of pale yellow hairs. Expanse averaging about 1-6 inches. 

 (Mr. Moore gives for the female 2-1 inches, but so large a specimen has 

 not been seen by me.) 



M. shalgrama. Cilia of forewing yellowish-white, of hindwing orange- 

 yellow, shading off into yellowish-brown at the apex. Underside varying 

 from dark ferruginous to bright ochreous. Anal segment of the female with 

 a dark brown thick tuft of hairs, marked with two paler brown streaks on 

 each side. Expanse averaging about 2*1 inches. Other characters as in 

 M. aria. 



