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found in P. gravelyi, somewhat bayonet-shaped in profile and chelate 

 at the apices, one arm however expanded and roughly quadrate 

 (figs. 3 and 4). Inferior appendages stout at the base, simple, 

 tapering to a fine point and curving up slightly. 



Female. Abdomen 32*5 mm. Hindwing 22 mm. 



Very similar to the male and differing as follows : — 



The labrum is more broadly bordered with black ; the eyes 

 are pale olivaceous green changing to pale brown on the crown ; 

 the mid-dorsal carina of the thorax is only obscurely whitish at its 

 upper part. 



The basal annule on segment 7 is much broader and its border 

 crenate, segment 8 is brownish black with a lateral, quadrate 

 spot of white, whilst 9 is paler brown and marked with a broad, 

 lateral spot of dirty white connected to a smaller spot subdorsally. 

 Segment 10 very small, black. 



Habits. Found in marshy spots hiding in the shadow of rocks 

 or amongst scrub at the sides of precipitous ravines. This species 

 differs from all others by the two sexes being of nearly equal 

 length, by the male having the mid-dorsal carina of the thorax 

 strongly marked with white, and by the prothorax being quite 

 unmarked. 



Protosticta sanguinostigma, sp. nov. 



(Plate I, figs. 5, 6.) 



Two adult males, 2 teneral males, 3 , vii , i92i and 23vii*i92i, 

 Coonoor Rd., 10th mile, 1500 ft., Nilgiris. 



Male. Abdomen 47 mm. ' Hindwing 25"5 mm. 



Head. Eyes bottle green, pale greenish blue beneath and 

 marked uniquely with a broad band of dark blackish brown which 

 begins above and behind and passes obliquely forward and down- 

 ward along the sides. 



Labrum turquoise blue, narrowly bordered with black : lower 

 part of epistome blue, the rest of head jet black save for an 

 obscure, transverse fascia of pale brown at the back of head. 

 Anterior surface of the two basal joints of antennae pale. 



Prothorax black above with an oval spot of blue at each 

 side in the middle, the sides whitish. 



Thorax jet black with a coppery, metallic sheen above, the 

 sides pale blue marked with a lateral stripe of black on the 2nd 

 suture which is bordered diffusely behind with brown. 



Legs white with a broad, diffuse, pale brown annule near the 

 dorsal end of the femora which are striped in their length with 

 black on the extensor surface. 



Wings hyaline, the stigma blood red, its costal side much 

 shorter than the posterior, its inner side much shorter than the 

 outer, the latter strongly convex ; postnodal nervures to forewing 

 16-18. 



Abdomen very long and slender, black on the dorsum, paler 

 brown on the sides, marked with pale turquoise blue. Segment 



