42 LITHOSIID^E. 



a large quadrate patch at anal angle black : thorax as in the preceding species, with 

 bright green reflections ; abdomen purplish grey, shot with green here and there in 

 certain lights, hind margins of the segments white. Wings below nearly as above : body 

 bright orange ; legs black, shot with dark green ; venter with black and white lateral spots. 

 Expanse of wings 3 inches 3 lines. 

 Bhotan (Lidderdale). 



Nearest to M. leucospilota of Moore. 



PHILONA, Walk. 



Philona inops. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 6.) 

 Philona (Hypsa) inops, Walker, Cat. Lep. Set. ii. p. 457. n. 18 (1854). 



Primaries above pale greyish buff, sericeous ; veins whitish ; base whitish, spotted with 

 grey : secondaries ochreous, with a broad dark-brown apical border tapering to the first median 

 branch : thorax pale buff, the collar whitish ; a grey spot on each shoulder ; abdomen 

 ochreous, with a dorsal series of black dots. Primaries below with the basal three fifths 

 white excepting the costal border, which is brown, the base itself ochreous ; an oblique dusky 

 discal belt limiting the white basal area and narrowing from the costa to the inner margin ; 

 external area pale brown : secondaries ochreous, with apical border as above, but paler ; costal 

 border brown ; costal and subcostal veins white : body below pale ochreous, pectus with 

 large lateral black spots, venter with a series of black dots on each side. Expanse of wings 

 2 inches 3 lines. 



Silhet (Stainsforth). 



DAMALIS, Hiibn. 



Damalis plaginota. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 7.) 

 Hypsa (Damalis) plaginota, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1875, p. 320. n. 19. 



Nearly allied to H. alciphron, but the nervures of the primaries clearly defined in cream- 

 colour ; the basal yellow area more extended ; a large cream-coloured subcuneiform patch, 

 the apex of which is within the cell, filling up the bases of the second median and lower radial 

 interspaces ; above it (at the superior angle of the cell) a small spot of the same colour ; 

 under surface with all the spots black and well defined, excepting two near the costa of 

 secondaries towards the apex : primaries with a broad cream-coloured area, covering and 

 surrounding the extremity of the cell : secondaries with the apical brown border ill-defined. 

 Expanse of wings 2 inches 8 lines. 



N.E. India. 



