LEPTOSIA. — THALPOCHAEES. 
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half ocliraceouSj speckled with testaceous, abdominal half white ; a spot at end of cell and an 
arched disco-costal stripe testaceous ; pectus silvery, venter pearly white. Expanse of wings 
20 millim, 
Dharmsala. 
LEPTOSIA, Guen. 
Leptosia contingens. (Plate CXXIX, fig. 13.) 
ilctachrostis contingens, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 412. 
Closely allied to L. velox ; the primaries with straighter costal and shorter inner margin, 
so that they appear narrower ; on the upper surface the dark lines are broader and more 
macular, and the third complete line (crossing the disc) has- its upper half denticulated instead 
of obtusely angulated ; palpi more erect. Expanse of wings 18 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
The name of the genus was altered by Mr. Moore subsequent to the labelling of his type. 
THALPOCHAEES, Led. 
Thalpochares argentifrons. (Plate CXXX. fig. 1.) 
Primaries cream-coloured ; basal fifth, a dot on costal margin beyond it, a central trian- 
gular costal spot, a small subapical costal cuneiform spot, and a narrow, interrupted, irregular 
outer border blackish ; a transverse dash near the external angle and a submarginal stripe 
whity brown ; fringe dark grey, with a pale basal line : secondaries shining grey ; fringe 
paler, with a whitish basal line : vertex of head, palpi, and thorax blackish ; face metallic 
silver; abdomen whitish. Wings below shining whitish: primaries sulfused with grey: 
secondaries with the costal half irrorated with grey ; an irregular abbreviated streak from 
costa to second median branch and an apical dash greyish ; fringes grey : primaries with the 
fringe dark : body below yellowish ; anterior legs greyish above. Expanse of wings 
22 millim. 
Dharmsala ; on walls. 
Not nearly allied to any known species. 
Thalpochares hypenoides. (Plate CXXX. fig. 2.) 
Basal two fifths of primaries pale vinous brown, bordered externally by a dusky zigzag 
stripe enclosed between two lines, the inner line grey, the outer one black; two black-brown 
dashes near the base and traces of a slender black line, commencing in a well-defined costal 
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