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PTEALID^. 
Opsibotys purpurascens. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 14.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown, the last with each segment fringed with 
yellow scales. Fore wing dark brown with a purplish tinge ; a lunule at end of cell and 
waved postmedial line curved inwards below the end of the cell, both the lines indistinctly 
outlined with ochreous, especially towards the inner margin; cilia fuscous, with a small patch 
of scales ochreous at the base between each pair of nervules. Hind wing ochreous, suffused 
with fuscous, especially towards the apex ; an indistinct dark spot at the end of the cell ; a 
dark marginal line ; cilia fuscous, ochreous at base. 
Nearest to 0. tinctalis, Hmpsn., from the Nilgiris. 
Rectothyris gratiosalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXXIII. fig. 12.) 
Samea gratiosalis, WR-. Cat. xvii. p. 357. 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
I'ellow, suffused with bright purplish pink. Fore wing with an indistinct dark curved 
antemedial line with a hyaline speck in the cell beyond it ; two medial hyaline spots, the 
one in the cell transversely elongate, the spot below it round ; two postmedial hyaline spots, 
the one below the costa bifid, the spot at middle of wing trifid. Hind wing with a double 
subbasal pink line ; a large hyaline pink-edged medial spot extending from the costa to first 
median nervule with dentate outer edge. Both wings with a marginal pink line, the cilia 
yellow. 
Meroctena tullalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 31.) 
Botys tullalis, Wlh. Cat. xviii. p. 649. 
Expanse 1\ inch. 
Bright yellow ; palpi brownish. Fore wing with indistinct waved subbasal and ante- 
medial dark lines ; a medial line from median nervure to inner margin, with a black speck 
above it in the cell; an ovate ring-spot on discocellulars ; a dark line beyond the cell from 
subcostal to lower median nervure ; a highly waved postmedial line, the area beyond it red- 
brown. Hind wing with a dark lunule at end of cell; a medial line from first median 
nervule to inner margin, sending a streak outwards to the indistinct waved outwardly oblique 
postmedial line ; apical ai-ea red-brown. Cilia of both wings dark at base, pure white at tips. 
Cotachena histricalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXXII. fig. 5.) 
Botys histricalis, Wlh. Cat. xviii. p. 655. 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen pale fulvous ; palpi blackish ; vertex of head and basal 
