DAMALIS.— NEOCHEKA. 43 



Damalis egens. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 8.) 

 Hypsa (Damalis) egens, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 453. n. 12 (1854). 



Bright ochreous : primaries with the veins cream-coloured ; an ill-defined orange belt 

 across the wing just before the middle ; five black spots representing a nearly regular pentagon 

 at the base : secondaries with whitish costa : body darker than the wings, almost orange in 

 colour, a black spot on each tegula ; abdomen with a dorsal series of black spots. Wings 

 below pale ochreous, with the external area brownish, distinctly streaked with blackish brown 

 on the secondaries ; primaries with a large black spot in the cell and an irregular patch at the 

 end of the cell : secondaries with a black bifid costal spot, a spot in the cell, two at the end of 

 the cell, a streak beyond the cell, and a dash on the interno-median area : body below bright 

 ochreous ; legs white, black towards their proximal extremities ; venter with lateral series of 

 black dots. Expanse of wings 2 inches 7 lines. 



Silhet, Moulmein, Java. 



HYPSA, Hubn. 

 Hypsa lacteata. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 9.) 



Allied to H. persecta of Ceylon, but considerably larger : the ground-colour of the wings 

 of a purer white tint ; the white patch just beyond the cell of the primaries of about six times 

 the size ; the large white area which covers the greater part of the discoidal and interno-median 

 regions more expanded, extending further towards the outer margin ; the black basal spots 

 more crowded together, the discoidal spots blackish ; the spots of secondaries wider apart ; 

 the body deeper in tint, the abdomen more distinctly black-banded. Below, the oblique 

 abbreviated black fascia at the end of the cell of primaries is replaced by an irregular trans- 

 verse black spot. Expanse of wings 2 inches 8 lines. 



<$ , Darjiling (Lidderdale) ; ? , Silhet (Stainsforth). 



NEOCHERA, Hubn. 



Neochera marmorea. (Plate LXXXVII. figs. 10, 11.) 



cj . Hypsa marmorea, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het, vii. p. 1674 (1856). 



d 2 . Hypsa (Neoehera) dominia, Walker (nee Cramer), I. e. ii. p. 448. n. 4 (1854). 



£ . Primaries above greyish brown, brilliantly shot with pale greenish blue ; veins white ; 

 outer border blackish ; sexual mark on internal border greyish brown, much swollen : secon- 

 daries white, with the costal and external borders broadly dark brown, brilliantly shot with 

 steel-blue and interrupted by white veins ; a large blackish patch at the end of the cell : body 

 above orange ; head black, spotted with white ; collar black, bordered with orange and spotted 

 with white ; tegulse spotted upon the shoulders and in the middle with black ; thorax spotted 



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