6 sphingim:. 



streak : abdomen -with the basal segments chalky white in the middle, this colour being limited 

 on each side by a subcuneiform black patch. Wings below quite different from P. perfecta, 

 purplish brown : primaries with the basal area smoky brown ; costal border mottled with 

 ochreous ; a subapical patch and a discal abbreviated band or patch across the median 

 branches ochreous, mottled with blackish : secondaries with the basal half dull rosy reddish, 

 traversed by a brown line parallel to the margin of the external half, which is crossed by an 

 interrupted ochreous spotted rosy-reddish belt, giving the impression of a reddish wing with 

 two parallel central brown lines and with a brown outer border ; the rosy areas mottled with 

 dark brown : body below much as in P. perfecta, but the venter decidedly browner in the 

 middle. Expanse of wings 2 inches 5 lines. 



Silhet {Argent 6fc.) ; Barrackpore [Hearsay). 



ANGONYX, Boisd. 



Angonyx automedon. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 1.) 



2 • Panacra automedon, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. viii. p. 154. n. 1 (1856). 

 c? . Panacra truncata, Walker, I. e. p. 160. n. 8 (1856). 



? . Primaries above pale rosy testaceous, clouded with olive-brown and mottled with 

 black ; a broad oblique olivaceous belt tapering from inner margin to apex and traversed 

 externally by parallel closely-approximated grey lines, its outer edge deeply bisinuated and 

 white towards apex : secondaries sordid testaceous, with a dark brown outer border limited 

 internally by an undulated stramineous stripe : body greyish brown, becoming whiter on the 

 head, with two longitudinal lateral ferruginous stripes, less distinct on the abdomen than on 

 the thorax, and limited externally by a belt of scattered metallic golden scales ; sides of abdo- 

 men grey tinted with pink. Wings below ochreous, mottled with dark grey ; a discal series 

 of small blackish conical spots ; outer border greyish brown : primaries with the basal area 

 and an oblique belt to apex greyish brown : body below sordid white, venter reddish at the 

 sides. Expanse of wings 2 inches 4 lines. 



S . Differs in its slightly smaller size and more deeply excavated outer margin below apex 

 of primaries. 



Silhet (Stainsforth) . 



Angonyx busiris. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 2.) 



Panacra busiris, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. viii. p. 158. n. 6 (1856). 



Primaries above with the basal fourth laky brown, traversed and bounded by sinuous 

 black lines ; central area occupied by a very irregular olive-green belt, very Avide on the costa, 

 but abruptly narrower below the cell, limited externally by a very irregular black-edged 

 brown stripe ; a black discocellular dot ; external area testaceous, becoming pale ochreous at 



