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beyond the central belt streaked with blood-red ; an obliqne metallic silver bar bounding tlie 
upper two thirds of the central belt internally and a tapering silver dash from costa bounding 
the upper tliird externallj^ ; the costal margin between these two silver markings spotted with 
pale metallic gold ; the outer edge of the belt is indicated below the silver dash by a pale 
sinuous line bordered on both sides with chocolate ; fringe lilacine, shading into rosy cupreous 
and with a dark brown basal stripe : secondaries with the basal third purplish lilac, and 
bounded externally by a slender sigmoidal silvery-lilac line ; central belt cupreous brown, 
enclosing a small blackish and lilacine ocelloid spot towards costa, and bounded externally by 
a subanguiated undulated black and silvery lilac line followed by a cupreous-brown stripe; 
external area lilac, glaucous in the centre ; a blackish apical submarginal streak and two or 
three subanal cupreous-brown lunules ; fringe much as in primaries : liead and collar dull 
clay-coloured ; thorax purple ; abdomen greyish brown. Wings below shining silvery, with 
indications of the colouring and pattern of the upper sui'face : body below pale golden-brown. 
Expanse of wings 22 millim. 
Dharmsala ; at sugar : a rare species. 
This is the most beautiful Py rails hitherto described; Ave have two examples of it in the 
Museum from Yczo, and Mr. Hocking obtained four at Dharmsala. It is evidently a local 
representative of F. rcgalis, but the golden colouring extends over a much greater portion of 
the primaries. 
EUCLITA, Hiibn. 
Euclita dharmsala. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 13.) 
Allied to P. platyriiitris, of the same colours, but rather smaller; the central belt of 
primaries one third narrower, its inner edge showing no trace of angulation, its outer edge 
much more oblique, slightly bisinuate ; basal half of secondaries whitish, the central white 
line more irregular than \n P. platymitris, undulated. Expanse of wings 20-26 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
This appears to be a much rarer species than P. platymitris. 
Euclita fortis. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 14.) 
One of the largest species in the genus, with smooth denselj^-scaled porreeted palpi, 
somewhat as in E. rubidalis but more robust and less deflexed. Primaries rosy flesh-coloured, 
so densely irrorated with dark grey atoms as to appear to be rosy brown ; central belt slightly 
darker than the basal and external areas, occupying about a third of the wing, wider on costal 
than on inner margin, and with slightly sinuous pale borders, dotted on the costa with whitish ; 
discocellular veinlet blackish ; fringe pale buff, tipped and banded with dark grey : secondaries 
pale sericeous bronze-brown, changing in certain lights to grey ; a central abbreviated pale- 
