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and oblique from the lunule to inner margin ; a dark dash from 

 the lower end of lunule to outer margin. Hind wing with an 

 ochreous curved submarginal line. 



Hab. Aska, Ganjam ; Ceylon. Exp. 26 millim. 



2138. Zagira longipalpis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1068; C. $ S. no. 2794. 



Differs from lunifera in the ground-colour being black-brown ; 

 the costal fascia more suffused with ochreous and continued almost 

 to the margin, obliterating the subapical markings ; a white spot 

 instead of the lunule ; a submarginal curved series of ochreous 

 specks. Hind wing with a submarginal series of ochreous specks. 



Hab. Moulmein. Exp. 26 millim. 



2139. Zagira reticulata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 178, pi. vi, fig. 9 ; 



C. $ S. no. 2796. 



Differs from irrecta in the head and collar being white. Tore 

 wing with white lines along median nervure and discocellulars, 

 enclosing a space at end of cell; a straight line thence to inner 

 >^' K ^ -margin; the costal fascia not extending to the apex and connected 

 by two white lines to a whitish patch, with three dark specks on it, 

 on the outer margin ; an indistinct line from the patch to outer 

 angle. Hind wing with a ring-mark at end of cell; a medial line 

 2-. <%l excurved round end of cell ; a submarginal line. 



Hab. Dalhousie ; Sikhim. Exp. 24 millim. i- 



M»t.0*«n. #.<?*' 2140. Zagira multiguttata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 210, pi. 174, 

 IfiK ) >T$ t<x 5 T £g. 8: Q& S. no. 2808. 



Bright red-brown ; head and collar deep chestnut ; a white line 

 behind the collar ; abdomen with white specks. Pore wing with 

 traces of antemedial and postmedial waved lines with minute white 

 specks on them ; a white spot at centre of cell and larger spot at 

 end of it ; submarginal and marginal series of white specks ; a 

 white spot at apex and two subapical spots. Hind wing with a 

 few white specks on the basal area and very numerous spots on 

 the outer half. 



Hab. Nagas ; Ceylon. Exp. 20 millim. 



2141. Zagira contentaria, Wlk. Cat. xxii, p. 639. 



Chusaris punctilinealis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1175; Hmpsn. III. 

 Het. ix, pi. 167, fig. 27 ; C. 8f S. no. 2935. 



Ochreous, suffused with rufous and irrorated with black ; the 

 frons white. Fore wing with black speck at base ; an indistinct 

 waved antemedial line ; two white-ringed black specks at end of 

 cell ; a postmedial series of white specks incurved below end of 

 cell. Hind wing with black speck in cell ; curved postmedial 

 series of white specks ; both wings with marginal series of black 



V 



Hab. Nilgiris ; Ceylon; Borneo. Exp. 22 millim. 



