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PHALERID^. 
Primaries below shining fuliginous brown; secondaries white^ with the costal and external 
borders fuliginous : body below greyish brown. Expanse of wings 57 millim. 
Darjiling {Lidderdale) . 
MENAPIA, Walk. 
Menapia xanthopMla. (Plate CIV. fig. 1.) 
Mena])ia xanthophila, WaR\ Cat. Lcp. Het. Suppl. ii. p. 462 (1865). 
Primaries above bright, clear, golden ochre-yellow ; the radial veins, a rather broad 
stripe from the base to the apex, five oblique series of small spots, and an abbreviated widely 
zigzag streak between the fourth and fifth series bright orange-ferruginous : secondaries 
pale purplish brown, with the costa and fringe pale testaceous : body testaceous ; the head and 
prothorax washed with orange-ferruginous. Under surface pale ochreous, the discoidal 
areas slightly suifused with brownish. Expanse of wings 56 millim. 
North India. 
The stripe on the primaries varies in depth of colour ; in some examples it is dark 
brown ; the secondaries are also sometimes darker than in the type. 
ANTHEUA, Walk. 
Antheua discalis. (Plate CIV. figs. 2 & 3.) 
Authena discalis, WnJlcer, Cat. Lep. Het. iii. p. 767. n. 4 (1855J. 
. Primaries above clear creamy stramineous ; two unequal brownish lilac spots at the 
base of the median interspaces ; a marginal series of small lilac -brown spots ; fringe 
testaceous : secondaries creamy white : thorax creamy ochreous, washed at the back with 
greyish ferruginous ; abdomen dull ferruginous, with the sides and last two segments dull 
cream-coloured. Under surface clear cream-coloured ; pectus reddish ochraceous in front. 
Expanse of wings 49 millim. 
? . Altogether darker than the male, the primaries bright ochreous, sparsely dotted over 
with dark ochreous, with a single black scale in the centre of each spot excepting towards the 
base ; spots on median interspaces larger than in the male, subconfluent ; marginal lunules 
ferruginous, fringe greyish ferruginous : secondaries smoky greyish brown, whitish at the 
base : head bright yellow ; thorax and abdomen pale orange-ferruginous, the sides of the 
abdomen white, with two series of black spots ; anus white. Under surface of wings clay- 
brown ; pectus ferruginous in front, venter whitish. Expanse of wings 47 millim. 
North India, Moulmein, Burmah. 
A very common and widely distributed species. The genus appears to me to belong to 
the Phaleridse. 
