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CATEPHIID^. — CATOCALID.?-. 
secondaries greyish brown with goklen reflections ; a broad darker external border : body 
whity brown ; collar darker brown^ with a curved black line on each side. Under surface 
whity brown with golden reflections : jjriraaries with a greyish indication of the wedge-shaped 
patch of the upper surface and a greyish discal band : secondaries with a grey, almost 
marginal, band : all the wings with grey discocellular spots. Expanse of wings, d 5,2 millim., 
? 40 millim. 
North India, Ceylon, and Sumatra. 
The male is not figured, as there is no Indian example in the Museum series ; it, however, 
chiefly differs from the female in its shape, which agrees with that of B. decens, and in its 
densely hairy legs and longer body. 
CATEPHIIDiE. 
AECTE, Koll. 
(Cocytodes, Giten.) 
Arete nigrescens, sp. n. (Plate CX. fig. 8.) 
Allied to A. taprobana of Moore (from Ceylon and Sumatra) ; decidedly larger : the 
primaries, with the exception of the apical patch, suffused with blue-black and sprinkled with 
bluish- white scales; the apical patch is also darker than in Moore's figure, or than a 
specimen in the Museum collection from Ceylon ; outer margin more prominently denti- 
culated : secondai'ies more prominently marked with bluish-white spots, and more distinctly 
sufl'used with greyish green than in the Ceylon species ; apical area quite black : thorax 
longer and decidedly darker; abdomen much greener. Under surface smoky greyish brown, 
tlie costal, apical, and external areas sprinkled with white scales ; black discocellular spots, 
followed by a well-marked arched black band ; a submarginal series of black spots, with 
white >-shapcd inner edges: primaries with a white longitudinal dash between the disco- 
cellular spot and the arched band : secondaries with tliis band somewhat bracket-shaped and 
partly edged externally with white dots ; a large black patch at the anal angle : pectus bright 
ochrcous ; legs varied with grey and black ; venter black, with five rows of primrose-yellow 
spots. Expanse of wings 84 millim. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale] . 
CAT0CALIDJ3. 
CATOCALA, Ochs. 
Catocala prolifera. (Plate CX. fig. 9.) 
Catocala prolifera, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. siii. p. 1211. no. 62 (1857). 
Allied to C. eJocata of Europe, but the primaries decidedly broader; all the markings on 
