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Polyploca albidisca. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 3.) 
Palimpsestis albidisca, Wamyi, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, jj. 299. 
General aspect and coloration of P. ocularis. Primaries grey, varied with pale reddish 
brown, crossed by eleven sinuous lines, the fourth and part of the sixth black, the others 
dark grey ; a black basal patch, crossed by an oblique interrupted white dash ; the interval 
between the first and second lines whitish on costa and at inner margin; the interval between 
the fourth and sixth lines white from the median vein to the inner margin ; the interval 
between the ninth and tenth lines whitish at its extremities ; a submarginal series of blackish 
lunules with pale edges ; marginal line lunulated, black ; fringe grey, with a whity-brown 
basal line and a silvery-white edge : secondaries pale sericeous grey, with brown external 
border ; costa whitish ; fringe as in primaries r head and prothorax whity brown, sprinkled 
Avith little black lines, remainder of body almost white. Under surface very like that of the 
preceding species. Expanse of wings 38 millim. 
? , Dharmsala ; at sugar, in October. 
A second female of this species was obtained by INIajor Yerbury at Bcrham Gulley, 
Campbellpore, in September. 
Polyploca renalis. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 4.) 
Palimpsestis renalis, Moore, Froc. Zool. Sue. 1888, p. 407. 
Most like P. ocularis. Primaries grey, tinted with rose-pink ; a basi-costal whitish patch, 
below which is a black and grey <-shaped marking; three or four slightly oblique, iri'egular 
dai'k grey lines, followed by the black inner line of the central belt, this line is irregularly^ 
undulated ; central belt whitish, enclosing a y-shaped, alternately black and orange marking 
in place of the reniform stigma ; outer line of central belt black, irregularly sinuated and 
unequally biangulated ; four imperfect irregular discal lines, blackish at their extremities ; 
outer border dark grey, tapering to apex and inner angle, and bounded internally by an 
undulated black line ; a submarginal series of black dots ; fringe whity brown tlecked with 
blackish : secondaries dark bronze-brown, with the costa pale; fringe whitish, traversed by a 
grey stripe : head whitish or white, barred with black ; antcunse oehraceous ; thorax whitish 
varied with rufous brown ; a brown line in front, crossing the base of the teguhe ; abdomen 
silvery brownish grey. Under surface similar to the preceding species. Expanse of wings 
40 millim. 
5 , Dharmsala ; at sugar. 
A worn example of this species was confounded with the series of P. orbicularis. 
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