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above it, another at apex. Hind wing with the costal area slightly suflFused with ochreous ; 
obscure postmedial and submarginal waved lines ; cilia of both wings chocolate. Underside 
of thorax and abdomen bright orange-yellow ; fore wing with dark strise, the basal half yellow 
followed by a bright chestnut band broad at costa and edged by a purplish line ; purplish 
patches at apex and centre of outer margin, and yellow patches near outer angle. Hind wing 
bright yellow with dark striae; postmedial and submarginal waved dark lines, which join 
towards inner margin and have some diflFused rust-red between them and on the apical half 
of margin. 
ENNOMINjE. 
Zomia serpentinaria, TF/k. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 13.) 
Timandra? serpentinaria, WII-. Cat. xxxv. p. 1634. 
Expanse 1| inch. 
Male. Head and abdomen purplish fuscous ; thorax olive-yellow. Fore wing olive-yellow, 
slightly striated with fuscous; a silvery-grey antemedial, slightly curved line ; a submarginal 
waved, silvery-grey line highly excurved between the first median and first subcostal nervures ; 
the area beyond it silvery grey, except a patch on costa before the apex and fuscous marks 
below the apex and towards outer angle. Hind wing pale reddish orange ; the inner area 
silvery grey with dark striae ; an olive-and-black postmedial band from inner margin to the 
first median nervule. Underside of fore wing orange-red, the apex pale ; of hind wing brick- 
red with sparse dark striae. 
Plutodes exiguifascia. (Plate CLXIX. fig, 17.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Head brownish ; collar yellow ; thorax and abdomen roan. Fore wing with the 
costa and a narrow medial band yellow ; the remainder of the wing consisting of two roan 
patches edged with silvery scales. Hind wing with basal and outer roan patches edged by 
silvery scales, leaving a narrow medial yellow band, broadest at costa. Cilia of both wings 
yellow. Underside pale. 
Nearest to P. cycluria, Guen. 
Petelia immaculata. (Plate CLXVIII. figs. 6, 12.) 
Expanse If inch. 
Male and Female. Difi'er from P. medardaria, H.-S., in the antemedial line of the fore 
wing being more oblique. Underside with the basal area pale brown, not white ; hind wing 
without the conspicuous black discal spot. Male with an anal white tuft ; female with the 
vertex of the head white, as in all the other species of the genus, whilst in the males it is grey. 
