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the middle, and brownish towards costa, in certain lights showing the black spots of the 
upper surface ; a marginal series of black dots : secondaries cream-coloured, rather densely 
irrorated with brown and with a submarginal series of squamose brown lunules ; discocellular 
and marginal black dots ; fringe slightly yellowish, traversed by a grey line : pectus and legs 
dull stramineous ; venter cream-coloured. Expanse of wings 41 millim. 
"Laka, above Dharmsala, 11,000 feet; came to light in the tent, June/^ 
Only one example of this very distinct species was obtained ; we have a second specimen 
from Afghanistan in which the primaries are of a golden-ochreous colour, Avith less defined 
bands and smaller black spots, and the secondaries of a purer white, with pale yellow fringe. 
The species comes neai'est to A. obliquaria, which varies in a similar manner. 
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ZERENIDtE. 
ICTERODES, Butl. 
Icterodes conspersa, (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 6.) 
Allied to /. sordida ; differing in its more uniformly silver-grey primaries, the blackish 
spots on which are more or less confluent ; the " reniform " patch forming part of the central 
belt ; it also differs from /. sordida, transect at a, fratei'na in having the pale bauds dotted 
over with more or less numerous black spots; the basal two fifths of the secondaries grey and 
the central sei'ies of blackish spots less curved. Expanse of wings 52 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
Two damaged specimens and fragments of a third were all that Mr. Hocking's collection 
contained of this interesting species. 
MICRABEAXAS, gen. nov. * 
Nearest to Abraxas tenebrosaria; but the antennae formed as in the genus Nelcynda; 
instead of being pectinated or ciliated, they are flattened and tapering. 
Micrabraxas punctigera. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 7.) 
General aspect and size of Larentia hollariaria, but in pattern more like Abraxas tene- 
brosaria : primaries grey, clouded with brownish, shot with pale brassy yellow, densely 
irrorated with black and grey and traversed by five series of black spots, the last two series 
formed of white-edged conical spots ; the fourth series interrupted, the fifth continuous and 
marginal ; three black spots at the end of the cell; fringe grey, with basal and central zigzag 
yellow lines: secondaries slightly sericeous, creamy white mottled with brownish grey; a 
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