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ENNOMID^. — AMPHIDASYID^. 
ABACISCUS, gen. no v. 
Aspect of Hypochroma ; of similar form and markings ; but structurally nearest to 
Angerona, there being no radial to the secondaries ; the antennse finely ciliated, not pecti- 
nated as in Angerona ; the palpi broader ; the tibiae of the posterior legs almost twice the 
length of those of Angerona, more uniformly thickened and flattened ; the tarsi shorter : 
nenration of primaries very similar, but the costal and subcostal veins of secondaries are 
distorted so that they are contiguous for about a quarter of their length from the base. 
Abaciscus tristis. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 18.) 
Primaries smoky blackish, crossed at basal fourth by a zigzag black line and at centre of 
disc by a subangulated dentate-sinuate black line edged externally with white crescents and 
dots, and terminating on inner margin in a mottled patch of white ; a transverse black disco- 
cellular litura ; a submarginal scries of white spots ; a patch of white scales, bounded inter- 
nally by a white crescent, on the outer border within the second median interspace ; fringe 
spotted with white : secondaries white mottled with blackish, apical border blackish, traversed 
l)y three white crescents ; anal border less distinctly blackish, also enclosing three white 
crescents ; central belt represented by two dentate-sinuate black lines, the inner one oblique 
and slightly arched ; the outer one strongly arched ; an oblique black discocellular dash 
Ijetween the two lines ; fringe spotted with black : thorax dark smoky grey, with whitish 
bands across the end of the tegulse ; abdomen brownish, with two doi'sal series of black spots 
and more or less prominent transverse whitish bands. Under surface chalky white, irrorated 
with dark grey ; other markings nearly as above, but almost wholly silver-grey instead of 
blackish : antennaj below orange. Expanse of wings 40 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
AMPHIDASYID^. 
AMPHIDASYS, Treit. 
Amphidasys porphyria, (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 1.) 
(J. Allied to A. robusta of Japan; a little smaller, with narrower wings; the outer 
borders paler, with irregularly dentated internal white edges ; the central belt much wider on 
the primaries, and bordered by considerably thicker and blacker lines : the outer line of the 
secondaries also thicker, blacker, less angulated, and nearer to outer margin : the thorax 
decidedly blacker ; the antennae shorter and much less red in colouring. Expanse of wings 
70 millim. 
Kangra district ; reared from pupa. 
