MACROBROCHIS. 4] 
blue ; a white spot at the base; a whitish squamose spot near the base of interno-median 
area: secondaries with cream-coloured basal third: body shot with steel-blue ; head, collar, 
and inner border of tegulze orange; abdomen with a lateral series of white spots, anus orange. 
Wings below black: primaries with a white streak near the base of interno-median area; two 
whitish spots on the radial interspaces *: secondaries with the basal half, excepting at costa, 
white: body below orange, legs black, venter with a row of triangular black spots on each 
side; the white lateral spots of the upper surface are also visible. Expanse of wings 3 inches 
4 lines. 
Darjiling (Lidderdale). 
M. atrata is most nearly allied to M. nigrescens, Moore. 
Macrobrochis gigas. (Plate LXX XVII. fig. 4.) 
3. Lithosia gigas, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 494. n. 1 (1854). 
Black-brown: primaries with greenish reflections, particularly towards the base; a white 
dot at the base; an elongated cream-coloured patch on the interno-median interspace towards 
the base; a costal streak, a large spot within the extremity of the cell and a larger one below 
it creamy white; eight elongated discal patches or streaks, the first extremely narrow, quite 
linear, the second almost linear, divided in the middle, the remainder larger; a space between 
the fourth and fifth, the seventh very long and divided by a brown bar: secondaries with the 
basal half white, veins and external half black-brown; a few very indistinct whitish streaks 
between the veins towards the apex: body above almost as in the preceding species. Wings 
below dark brown; primaries with seven large oval spots across the disk, otherwise as above : 
secondaries with the basal half excepting the veins and costa, a subcostal streak almost to 
apex, and five decreasing spots from the latter to the first median interspace white : body 
below orange; legs dark brown, shot with steel-blue; venter banded with steel-blue and with 
a lateral series of white spots on a black ground. Expanse of wings 2 inches 10 lines. 
India. 
The type described by Walker is placed last in his enumeration of the specimens which 
formerly represented this species in the collection ; unfortunately no locality is given, but it 
is probable, from its close resemblance to M. interstitialis (which may even be a large variety 
of it), that it comes from the N.H. Himalayas. 
Macrobrochis albicans. (Plate LXX XVII. fig. 5.) 
9. Primaries above purplish black, shot towards the base with dark green; a number of 
white markings almost as in the preceding species, but considerably broader, snow-white : 
secondaries snow-white, the apex, costal and outer margins, veins beyond the middle, and 
* In some examples these are white and are present on both surfaces. 
