DAXATA.— GATHYNIA. 
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DAXATA, Walk. 
Daxata glaucescens. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 4.) 
. Primaries above sericeous lilacine grey, traversed by irregular dark brown lines and 
bands ; costal border dark brown, crossed by grey bars to beyond tbe middle, beyond which 
it is spotted with transverse white dashes ; a subbasal irregular band, a central belt, and a 
discal band brown, clouded with grey, edged with black-brown ; the intervals between these 
bands traversed by single black-brown lines ; reniform spot B-shaped on the left wing, partly 
orange and partly sericeous grey ; a black siniiated marginal line : secondaries sericeous 
smoky brown : body smoky brown ; the abdomen greyish at the sides. Under surface 
smoky greyish brown ; wings with cupreous reflections, costal borders densely irrorated with 
whitish, interrupted by one or two transverse bars of the ground-colour ; a slender sinuated 
black marginal line; costal margin of primaries with four white dots beyond the middle; 
cell and veins of secondaries irrorated with whitish ; fringe greyish, with a darker central 
stripe and white basal line. Expanse of wings 25 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
Daxata lilacina. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 5.) 
$ . Primaries above sericeous lilac, partly suff'used with brown ; the basal fourth crossed 
by three closely approximated, irregular dark brown stripes ; reniform spot outlined in dark 
brown, and followed by two almost parallel irregularly angulated stripes, beyond which is a 
tapering brown band, dotted on the costa with white, and followed by a series of black 
lunules, almost parallel to outer margin ; a marginal series of conical black spots : secon- 
daries sericeous dark brown, crossed by a slightly darker discal band, and with dusky conical 
marginal spots : thprax dark brown; abdomen sericeous brown. Underside smoky brown ; 
wings shining, with cupreous reflections ; the costa of primaries and whole of secondaries 
irrorated with darker scales and crossed on the disc by two darker bars ; fringe greyish, 
undulated (so that it appears to be spotted with darker spots), with a slender whitish basal 
line : body below paler than the wings. Expanse of wings 23 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
In both of these species the palpi are shorter than in the type of the genus. 
GATHYNIA, Walk. , 
Gathynia simulans. (Plate CXXXIII. figs. 6, 7.) 
Primaries whity broAvn, slightly tinted with pink and irrorated with grey; two greyish 
patches with blackish edges and cupreous-brown borders representing a central belt (as in 
Dirades theclata) ; costal margin mottled with blackish ; a blaekish-edged whitish marginal 
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