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CODANE, Moore. 



Codane zelica. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 2.) 



Gynautocera (Chalcosia) zelica, Douhleday, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, vol. xix. p. 76, pi. vii. fig. 3 



(1847). 

 Pidorus zelica, Walker, Oat. Lep. Bet. ii. p. 425. n. 2 (1854). 



Primaries above chocolate-brown shot with purple ; basal half of costa shot with bluish 

 green, with a bright blue spot at the base ; basal fourth (excepting the costa) snow-white ; 

 a slightly oblique central white belt ; three subapical white spots in an oblique series, the two 

 lower ones indistinct : secondaries white, with a broad dark brown outer border, angulated 

 internally, and narrowing abruptly below the first median branch ; basal area sordid : head, 

 shaft of antennae, collar, and tegulse blue ; thorax white, spotted with blue ; abdomen dull 

 golden, banded with purple ; anus orange. Wings below nearly as above, but the white sub- 

 apical spots of primaries all distinct : secondaries with the costa brown, shot with blue, with 

 a subcostal white spot at apical three fifths ; a small submarginal white spot : body below 

 ochraceous, the venter brightest, and with a lateral series of black dots ; legs streaked with 

 blue, Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 



Silhet and Moulmein. 



LAURION, Walk. 

 Laurion miles. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 3.) 



Primaries black ; a bright yellow stripe running from the base along the costa to the 

 middle of the wing, and then crossing the wing obliquely to near the extremity of the first 

 median branch; a bright yellow subapical spot : secondaries dark brown, with the costal area 

 and end of cell broadly scarlet ; fringe yellow at apex : body dark brown, with a bright yellow 

 collar. Wings below nearly as above, body with the central region yellow. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 3 lines. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale) . 



RETINA, Walk. 



Retina rubrivitta. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 4.) 

 Retina rubrivitta, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 439. n. 1 (1854). 



Primaries carmine-red, with the apical third of costal border and the internal half, except- 

 ing at outer margin, smoky brown, shot with dull green : secondaries smoky brown : thorax 

 dark dull green, with two confluent carmine spots at the back of the head ; abdomen smoky 

 brown. Wings below as above, pectus spotted and venter banded with sordid white. Expanse 

 of Avings 1 inch 5 lines. 



Silhet. 



