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and anal angle, and traversed by a submarginal series of elongated spots, and with dark brown 

 fringe, as in the primaries ; body fuliginous brown, the collar crossed by an ochreous stripe. 

 Wings below altogether yellower than above, pale ochreous, the innermost discal zigzag line 

 dull pink, continued through the secondaries, the two outer zigzag lines forming the boundaries 

 of a dull pink stripe ; the ocelli and the subapical cuneiform patch of the primaries of a more 

 rosy tint : the secondaries mottled with dark brown, and tinted with dull pink towards the 

 base ; the testaceous discal band Hmited externally by elongated black spots : body below 

 testaceous, tinted with dull pink at the sides; anterior coxae dull rose-coloured. Expanse of 

 wings 3 inches. 



? . Much larger than the male ; the primaries densely irrorated with brown and black up 

 to the pale border, and with larger ocellus ; the external margin nearly straight : secondaries 

 deeper in colour, the ocellus much more laky in tint, larger ; the discal band broader, and 

 externally more broadly black bordered. The wings below very little paler than above, densely 

 irrorated up to the pale border with dark brown, with scarcely a trace of the innermost zigzag 

 line, the two other lines less distinct than above : secondaries very slightly tinted with pink. 

 Expanse of wings 3 inches 9 lines. 



<$ , Darjiling {from the India Museum); $ , Darjiling (Lidderdale). 



LASIOCAMPID.E. 



BEAHMJEA, Walk. 



Brahmaea wMtei. (Plate XCV. figs. 1 & 2.) 



Brahmsea whitei, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 119. fig. 2. 



Whity brown : primaries with the basal third traversed by eight black lines ; a central 

 irregular black-bordered belt, slightly yellowish internally and olivaceous externally, crossed 

 by white streaks, upon which are numerous white-pupilled black spots ; the outer border of 

 this belt is deeply and broadly concave in front of the apical area, and between the lower 

 radial and first median branch, the angle between these two excavations being bifid; apical 

 area pale olivaceous brown, crossed by six more or less dentate-sinuate lines, all, excepting the 

 innermost one (which is black, edged with white), snow-white, separated from the remainder 

 _ of the disk, which is traversed by nine irregular pale-edged black lines, by a yellow longitudinal 

 streak ; a submarginal series of semicircular shell-like ocelli, the three uppermost of which 

 are confluent and almost concealed by a large black patch ; outer border whitish internally, 

 slightly brownish externally : secondaries with the basal two fifths blackish, streaked with pale 

 brown, and limited by a sinuous recurved black stripe : disk traversed by nine irregular slender 

 black lines; a submarginal series of confluent shell-like spots, from which black streaks 

 project inwards upon the veins : thorax varied with irregular longitudinal black streaks : 



