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PHALEEID^. 
snow-wliite ; the body blacky with greyish lateral borders to the thorax^ and greyish-white 
bands across the abdominal segments ; anal segment pale cinereous. Primaries below 
blackishj with the usual pale markings : secondaries sordid white, with an abbreviated, 
oblique^ crinkled, black stripe from the costa to the first median branch ; a dusky discal 
nebula : pectus black ; the legs with greyish fringes ; venter sordid wliite, with lateral black 
bands continued from above. Expanse of wings 87 millim. 
Darjiling {Lidderdale). 
Phalera sangana. (Plate CIII. fig. 4.) 
Phalera sangana, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. p. 433. n. 981 (1858-59). 
Primaries above smoky brown, a little paler at base and on the posterior half of external 
area ; the whole surface crossed by numerous undulated darker lines ; discoidal spots indistinct, 
pale testaceous with bi'own centres ; an interrupted black transverse line at basal fourth ; a 
slender lunulated black line bounding the external area and forking from the third, median 
branch to the costa ; the area thus enclosed a little redder than the rest of the wing; three or 
four longitudinal reddish dashes beyond this area and a submarginal series of slender blackish 
lunules ; the usual dusky spot from external angle to first median branch : secondaries smoky 
greyish brown, with darker external area ; fringe tipped with white : head snow-white 
above ; the frons, palpi, and thorax dark smoky brown, with black transverse lines ; tegulee 
greyish; abdomen brown with blackish-grey bands, anal segment paler. Primaries below 
smoky brown, varied with whity brown on apical area and with an interrupted submarginal 
streak of the same colour : secondaries creamy whitish, with an elbowed blackish band from 
before the middle of costa obliquely to beyond end of cell ; a greyish nebula towards outer 
margin : body below whity brown, varied with creamy whitish. Expanse of wings 88 
millim. 
Darjiliiag. 
Mr. Moore has omitted to describe the under surface of his new species — a practice 
by which the identification of species is too often rendered almost impossible. In the 
three species (P. arenosa, sangana, and stiyiniyera) here described, the banding of the under 
surface of the secondaries is very dissimilar, whereas the pattern of the wings on the upper 
surface is almost the same in all three. 
Phalera stigmigera. (Plate CIII. fig. 5.) 
Phalera stigmigera, Butler, Ann. ^ Mmj. JSat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 66. n. 9 (1880). 
Nearly allied to P. sangana, but the primaries shorter, broader, with large whitish 
reniform stigma ; the orbicular spot placed nearer to it and very indistinct ; the inner line of 
the central belt single and more irregular, rather nearer to the base ; base of costa sprinkled 
with white scales ; the external angle blackish, so that the spots which terminate the discal 
