PANACEA. 5 



dinal blackish and grey lines on the veins ; a black discocellular dot, surrounded by a lilacine 

 zone ; a piceous streak, followed by three oblique parallel blackish lines from internal margin to 

 upper radial nervure ; apical and external areas (including the central portion of the intervals 

 between the oblique lines) buff, varied with olivaceous ; an irregular submarginal brown line 

 from apex to external angle, bordered by a diffused brownish streak at its extremities and 

 between the radials (at which point the external area is dark olivaceous) ; an exterior sub- 

 marginal line parallel to the last, but not reaching the apex ; outer margin olivaceous : secon- 

 daries rosy brown, clothed with greyish olivaceous hairs at the base ; external area dark brown ; 

 a double submarginal ochreous streak from just beyond the third median branch to the anal 

 angle ; fringe yellow, with black spots at the ends of the veins : head, palpi, collar, tegulae, 

 and thorax above olive-brown ; a lateral lilacine line on the vertex of the palpi, and on each 

 side of the head, collar, and tegulae ; a central spot on the crest, and another of the same 

 colour in the middle of the collar ; a whitish line along the inner margins of the tegulae : 

 abdomen greyish brown in the middle, slightly lilacine at the base and with two subdorsal 

 series of blackish spots ; sides of abdomen reddish brown, with a broad paler streak, which is 

 ferruginous on the basal segments, but golden mottled with ferruginous on the posterior 

 segments. Primaries below with the basal half dark greyish brown, costa ochraceous ; external 

 half ochreous, a broad red streak tapering from the end of the cell to the apex ; the oblique 

 lines of the upperside red, the submarginal lines blackish, with white interstitial line at apex : 

 secondaries grey, costa yellow ; subcostal, abdominal, and disco-anal areas carmine-red, the 

 latter mottled with yellow ; three central brown lines diverging upon costa, and traversed by 

 a waved transverse series of seven black dots upon the veins ; a golden discoidal spot ; two 

 submarginal brown lines, the inner one extending along the margin of the discal carmine 

 area ; margin ferruginous, fringe as above : palpi below white, reddish at the sides, pectus 

 golden, varied in front with ferruginous and at the sides with silver scales ; coxae and tro- 

 chanters sordid white, fringed with ferruginous ; anterior femora and tibiae brown, tarsi white ; 

 second pair of legs pale brown, femora fringed above with orange and below with gold ; third 

 pair rosy whitish, femora below and tibiae above fringed with golden scales. Expanse of wings 

 2 inches 6 lines. 



Darjiling {Sadler fy Lidderdale) . 



This species occurs in the month of June. 



Panacra mydon. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 9.) 



Panacra mydon, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ret. viii. p. 155. n. 2 (1856). 

 Panacra scapularis (part.), Walker, I. c. p. 157. no. 5 (1856). 



General coloration of the preceding species. Wings shorter and broader; costal border of 

 primaries pale olivaceous brown, crossed near the base and apex by black bars; discal lines 

 dentate-sinuate ; submarginal lines obsolete : secondaries with paler blackish-mottled ochreous 



