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form one with a brown disk ; a row of dark brown marginal dots. 

 Hind wings white, pearly, with pale brown borders. Length of the 

 body 5j lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Punjaub. Presented by Gen. Hearsay. 



b. North India. From Mr. James' collection. 



14. Prodenia insignata. 



Pallide testacea ; thorax cervino varius ; alee anticce pallide cer- 

 vince, lineis variis transversis, lituris discalibus fascia que exte- 

 riore testaceo-albis, ex parte fusco marginatis, lineis margina- 

 libus fuscis strigaque obliqua apicali alba ; posticce albce, 

 opalinai, fusco vix marginata. 



Pale testaceous. Thorax varied with fawn-colour. Fore wings 

 pale fawa-colour, with various testaceous white transverse lines, 

 which are partly bordered with brown ; with discal marks, and with 

 an exterior band of the same hue, the band interrupting a row of 

 marginal brown lines, and shortened in front by an oblique apical 

 white streak. Hind wings white, pearly, hardly bordered with 

 brown. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. James' collection. 



15. Prodenia glaucistriga. 



Testacea; thorax fasciis nonnullis anticis arcuati* fuscescentibus ; 

 ala? antica fuscescente et strigis nigricantibus albidisque vari<e, 

 fasciis latis duabus glaucis unaque abbreviata cervina, vitta 

 brevi obliqua albida testaceo strigata, vena mediana albida ; 

 postica alba, opalince, semihyalina. 



Testaceous. Thorax with some slight brownish curved bands 

 in front. Fore wings brownish, and with blackish and whitish 

 streaks here and there, the rest of the wing being occupied by three 

 broad bauds ; the first and the third glaucous ; the middle one 

 fawn-colour, abbreviated in front, where it is bounded by a short 

 oblique whitish stripe, the latter containing testaceous streaks ; 

 median vein and part of the inferior veins whitish. Hind wings 

 white, opaline, semihyaliue. Length of the body 6—8 lines ; of the 

 wings 14 — 16 lines. 



a. North India. Presented by the Entomological Club. 

 6. North India. From Mr. James' collection. 



c. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collectien. 



d. Canara. Presented bv S. N. Ward, Esq. 



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