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LIMACODID^.— PHALEEID.E. 
CANIA, Walk. 
Cania sericea. (Plate CII. fig. 7.) 
Cania sericea, Wall-er, Cat. Lep, Het. v. p. 1178. n. 1 (1855). 
Sericeous : primaries above pale testaceous, with faint cupreous reflections ; a large basal 
patch, an oblique band beyond the middle and parallel to outer margin, and a diffused 
external border pale reddish cupreous : secondaries pale stramineous : thorax greyish white, 
the head and collar bright ochreous; abdomen pale stramineous. Under surface uniformly 
ochreous. Expanse of wings 32 millim. 
North India. 
APHENDALA, Walk. 
Aphendala transversata. (Plate CII. fig. 8.) 
S . Apliendala transversata, Wall-er, Cat. Lep. Hct. Suppl. ii. p. 495 (1865). 
Pale brownish grey : primaries above sericeous, with a few scattered darker scales ; a 
dark brown oblique line, bordered externally with pure white, across the basal third ; a brown 
spot on the second median interspace, and a straight dark-brown line bordered externally by 
a diffused Avhite band near the outer margin ; outer margin narrowly edged with brown ; 
fringe brown, traversed by two pale stripes. Under surface uniform brownish grey, rather 
darker than above. Expanse of wings 27 millim. 
North India. 
PHALERID^. 
PHALEEA, Hiibn. 
Phaleraraya. (Plate CIII. fig. 1.) 
Phalera raya, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. ii. p. 433. n. 980 (1858-59). 
Primaries above silvery grey, sjiarsely irrorated with black scales, the base and costal two 
fifths tinted with bronze-brown, excepting two spots in the discoidal cell ; an interrupted 
subbasal black line, a second at basal two sevenths, a third line formed of an angulated series 
of black lunules just before the external fourth ; a few longitudinal black dashes between the 
last line and the outer margin ; a large subcuneiform costal reddish clay-coloured patch at 
apex, its inner margin bounded by the lunular black line, its outer margin with a zigzag white 
edge ; fringe spotted with ferruginous ; an oblique dusky patch at external angle, partly 
bounded internally by the last lunule of the third black line : secondaries sericeous greyish 
brown ; fx'inge white, spotted with ferruginous : thorax red-brown varied with blackish. 
