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NOTODONTID^. 
blackish-edged white stripes enclosing three blackish costal dashes ; an outlined white lunule 
at the end of the cell and two ov three white-bordered blackish spots near the inner margin 
and bounded on each side upon the costa by an irregular elongated blackish patch ; an 
irregularly sinuated whitish and blackish stripe across the basal fourth, connected below the 
cell with the inner border of the central belt by a blackish ^-shaped marking; an imperfect 
white denticulated submarginal stripe, dividing a dark grey patch at external angle, which is 
continued as a grey external border and bounded by this stripe internally as far upwards 
as the lower radial vein ; a marginal series of partly white-edged black spots, not extending to 
apex : secondaries grey, the basal half pale ; a sinuous marginal line and the fringe whity 
brown : head and collar above black ; antennae dark broAvn ; fringe of collar and remainder 
of body above whity brown. Wings below brown, a darker line beyond the cell followed by 
a broad darker discal belt, only separated from a dark external border by a narrow zigzag 
stripe of the ground-colour : body below pale brown ; the front of pectus and venter and a 
central stripe blackish. Expanse of wings 54-56 millim. 
Silhet {Stainforth) ; Darjiling {Lidder dale) . 
BESAIA, Walk. 
Besaia rubiginea. (Plate CIV. fig. 10.) 
Besaia rubiginea, Waller, Cat. Lep. Met. Suppl. ii. p. 459 (1865). 
Primaries above whitish ochreous, clouded with grey beyond the middle and along the 
external border ; basal half of the costal border marked with dark ferruginous dashes ; an 
irregular zigzag ferruginous line (indistinct within the cell) across the basal third, its lower 
part thickened, enclosing whitish dots and almost united, by a longitudinal streak of ferru- 
ginous, to a trisinuated band of the same colour bounding the external area ; the streak 
enclosing a whitish spot and the band a series of alternate ochreous lunules and whitish 
spots; four or five black marginal dots: secondaries and body greyish brown ; fringe and 
anal extremity of abdomen pale. Under surface pale greyish brown ; costal borders pale 
bufl"; front of pectus blackish. Expanse of wings 56 millim. 
India. 
OSSONOBA, Walk. 
Ossonoba torpida. (Plate CVI. fig. 8.) 
Ossonoba torpida, ^Yalkcr., Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. v. p. 1966 (1866). 
Rufous-brown ; primaries crossed by two grey-edged M hitish lines, one across the basal 
fourth, the other, Avhich is slightly sinuous and oblique, just beyond the middle, its upper 
extremity white and acutely in-angled ; between these two whitish lines, which represent the 
