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abdomen crossed by narrow interrupted black lines. Wings below pale yellowish brown : 
primaries with a longitudinal subcostal basal blackish streak ; a very broad area, representing 
the central belt of the upper surface, broadly bordered with black, its upper portion mottled 
with black, its lower half crossed by a longitudinal black belt ; nine pale-edged slender blackish 
lines from costa to inner margin, followed by a black regularly zigzag submarginal line ; 
external border slightly olivaceous: secondaries with the basal half streaked with black and 
limited by a recurved black undulated belt ; remainder of the wing as in the primaries: pectus 
black, sides and coxz brown; venter sandy brown, with straight central and undulated lateral 
slender black lines. Expanse of wings 5 inches 9 lines. 
Darjiling (Lidderdale). 
Brahmeza conchifera. (Plate XCV. figs. 3 & 4.) 
Brahmea conchifera, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 188 (1880). 
Brahmea certhia, Walker (nec Fabr.), Cat. Lep. Het. vi. p. 1316 (1855); Butler, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1866, 
Oo ILS). anes, I 
Altogether darker and of a yellower tint than the preceding, the central belt with its 
upper half convex instead of concave externally, the white lines on the subapical area replaced 
by sagittate white markings in three regular longitudinal series; all the black lines wider: 
secondaries with the basal area nearly as wide again, black, excepting towards the costa, which 
is purplish brown, only streaked with ochraceous brown towards the abdominal margin, its 
outer edge less sharply angulated ; the disk crossed by slate-coloured streaks intersected by 
white lines; the submarginal shell-like ocelli more depressed, and consequently more evidently 
confluent ; as in the primaries, they and the outer border are more olivaceous in tint: the 
body above is black, the thorax longitudinally streaked with ochraceous, the abdomen banded 
with the same colour and with a dorsal median stripe of it. Below, the representative of the 
central belt on the primaries is much more suffused with black; the basal area of secondaries 
is black, only streaked with buff towards the costal margin, the discal lines are much less 
strongly undulated, and the submarginal line is not zigzag; the pectus is wholly black, and 
the venter ochreous with black longitudinal lines. Expanse of wings 6 inches 2 lines. 
Silhet ; Darjiling (Lidderdale) . 
Brahmea wallichii. (Plate XCV. figs. 5 & 6.) 
Bombyx wallichi, J. #. Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 39 (1832); G. Rh. Gray, Lep. Ins. Nepal, pls. 15 & 16 
(1833). 
Bombyx spectabilis, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 443, pl. 31. fig. 3 (1841). 
Differs from the preceding in its altogether redder colour, the much greater width of the 
central belt of the primaries, the almost entire absence of all white markings, the lines on the 
subapical area being extremely slender, lunate, and indistinct, the greater width of the basal 
