HELIOTHEL A . — PORPIITEIT rs . 
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edged dusky line from submedian vein ; fringe as in primaries : thorax rosy brown, greyish in 
the centre; head and palpi slightly redder ; abdomen bronze-brown. Under surfaee greyish, 
with golden-bronze reflections ; costal borders slightly rosy ; discocellular spots and a discal 
curved stripe grey ; fringes slightly paler than on the upper surface : upper surface of tibiae 
blackish. Expanse of wings 29 millim. 
Kulu. 
This species somewhat reminds one of the Chilian Blepharocerus rosellus, Blanch. 
Mr. Hocking only obtained one example of it. 
HERCYNIM. 
HELIOTHELA, Guen. 
Heliothela pxisilla. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 15.) 
Primaries sericeous, dark cupreous brown, sprinkled in certain lights with sliining bluish- 
plumbaginous scales ; the reniform spot of the same colour ; the central belt indicated by two 
irregular black lines partly relieved by pale spots, the costal spot of the second series creamy 
■white : secondaries black-brown, with a large briglit ochreous patch extending from the base 
to beyond the cell, and enclosing a conspicuous subcuneiform black spot ; costal area greyish : 
body black. Primaries below dark sericeous brown, slightly purplish at apex in certain lights ; 
inner border greyish white ; base whitish ; a small subbasal pale golden tuft ; an oblique white 
band from costa beyond the middle ; fringe dark grey, with a pale basal line : secondaries 
nearly as above, but the basal third of costa ochreous and the remainder of costa black: body 
below pale bronze-brown. Expanse of wings 11 millim. 
Dharmsala ; a day-flier. 
ENNYCHIIDiE. 
PORPHYRITIS, Hilbn. 
Porphyritis maculata. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 16.) 
Primaries dai'k purplish brown; orbicular spot small, ochreous, placed between two very 
irregular zigzag ochreous bands sprinkled with red scales ; the second of these bands is formed 
by the union of two unequal spots by means of a narrow oblique stripe of the same colour ; 
fringe tipped with silvery white on apical half, and with a continuous black subbasal stripe : 
secondaries black ; a subbasal trifid ochreous patch and an oblique central malleiform ochreous 
band ; a small submarginal ochreous lunule ; fringe with the basal half, apex, and a patch in 
