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436 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCEKA. 



Clialcosia leptalina, Kollar, Kaschmir von Von Hugely 462, 3. 



Purplish black, mostly whitish beneath. Antennae purple. 

 Thorax crimson along the fore border, with a yellow spot on each 

 shoulder. Legs white beneath. Fore wings yellow, excepting the 

 borders, for full half the length from the base, and with a small 

 yellow spot near the fore border at three-fourths of the length ; on 

 the under side there is also a whitish curved subapical band. Hind 

 wings yellow, black at the tips and along the adjoining part of the 

 hind border ; under side yellow about the tips with the exception of 

 two black spots. Length of the body 4—5 lines ; of the wings 

 13 — 15 lines. 



Var. 0. Yellow part of the fore wings contracted on each side 

 so as to form a stripe terminated by a band. Hind wings with a 

 blackish streak in front and another behind; black borders very 

 broad, testaceous on the under side. 



Var. y. Like Var. &. Hind wings yellowish white with black 

 borders above and with black subapical spots beneath. 

 a. Silhet. From Mr. Argent's collection. 

 h, c. Silhet. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 d—f. Nepaul. Presented by Major-General Hardwicke. 



g y h. — ? 



2. SORITIA ? HYALINA. 



Nigra ; ala hyalines albce; anticce apice vitrece, venis obscurioribus. 

 Chalcosia hyalina, Kollar, Kaschmir von Von Hugel, 462, 4. 

 Himalayan Mountains. 



Genus 57. CHELUBA. 





" Caput antice angustum, postice latius. Lingua spiralis 

 subelongata. Palpi breves. Antennas ante oculos insertse, bipecti- 

 natae. Thorax convexus, magnitudine mediocri. Abdomen sub- 

 cylindricum, annulis ad apicem magnitudine decrescentibus, octono 

 minori ; cauda maris forcipe acuto armata, et in parte media duplici 

 hamo instructa; alaa angustaa, marginibus posticis subemarginatis ; 

 pedes simplices.'' 



Chelura, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xviii. 444. Westw. Arcana 

 Eat. 19. 



