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the underside the primaries are greyer without the pinkish co>tal suffusion ; the discocdluhir 
blackish spot is bounded on both sides by whitish spots, and the discal stripe is more arched : 
the secondaries are considerably whiter, without pinkish costal suffusion, and the discal stripe 
is further from the outer margin. Expanse of wings 31 millim. 
Dbarmsala ; at sugar. 
EPUNDA, Dup. 
Epnnda mamestrina. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 5.) 
Allied to E. nigra, of the same form and pattern, but in colouring more like Valeria 
oleagina : primaries smoky grey, with black lines as in E. nigra ; the costa varied with 
whitish spots to the end of the cell, and with three white dots beyond it ; reniform spot white, 
black-edged and with greyish inner streak ; the dashes at the extremity of the denticles along 
the outer edge of the central belt dotted with white ; a submarginal series of black spots 
enclosing white crescents ; fringe dotted with white ; a bright yellow spot terminating tlie 
black-edged abbreviated subbasal stripe : secondaries more sordid than in E. nigra, all the 
veins, border, and submarginal stripe being more decidedly smoky grey : body dark smoky 
grey; the thorax also irrorated with black. Under surface rather darker than in E. nigra, 
with a decided dark grey discal line through all the wings : primaries without discocellular 
spot : secondaries with black discocellular lunule. Expanse of wings 49 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
CANNA, Wa!k.* 
Canna splendens. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 4.) 
Canna splendens, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 412. 
Allied to C. pulchripicta ; the green markings bluer, bordered with silver and edged with 
black ; the green spot near base of inner margin larger, and bounded internally by a quadrate 
black spot enclosing a white dot ; the base itself white ; the angular brown band broader, 
more irregular, more olivaceous, varied with black and green ; a pure white dash at the end 
of the cell ; the olivaceous stripe from the elbow of the brown band to the costa widened and 
diffused ; apex blue-green, bounded internally by a white line ; the brown ocelloid spots 
replaced by white-edged black spots with white pupils, but followed by brown spots on the 
fringe ; the remainder of the fringe is green, tipped here and there with brown : secondaries 
pearly white, external border bronzy grey, widest towards apex, tapering to a mere line at 
external angle ; centre of external margin pale ; fringe white : head green, white between the 
* Incorrectly placed in the Acontiida) by AValker ; it is doubtful whether it is distinct from the 
European genus Jaspidea. 
