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ELLOPIA, Treit. 
EUopia pulchra. (Plate CXIV. fig. 8.) 
Ellopia pulchra, Butler, Ann. S,' ^larj. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 124. n. 27 (1880). 
Allied to E. formosa, but half as large again and somewhat different in pattern : wiugs 
sericeous grey : primaries with the costal border^ including two cuneiform patches of nearly 
equal size, the subapical fringe and two spots near the base of the second median interspace 
gamboge-yellow; subcostal area, base, and a broad oblique belt (only separated by an 
oblique dusky line from the basal area) laky purplish, densely mottled with orange ; a discal 
series of three or four purplish-edged orange spots between the second median branch and 
the inner margin : secondaries with sericeous-white costal area ; abdominal area mottled 
before the middle with laky cupreous ; a tapering, externally diffused, reddish-orange streak 
from the abdominal margin to the end of the cell, confluent, at its commencement, with a 
broad external boi'der of the same colour, but which gradually breaks up into little reddish 
striae as it recedes fi-om the anal angle towards the costa : body laky red ; vertex of head and 
antennae sulphur-yellow. Under surface sericeous creamy whitish ; the markings of the 
upper surface seen indistinctly through the wings : primaries with sulphur-yellow costa and 
ochraceous subapical area j subajiical fringe golden yellow; rest of fringe and externo-discal 
area cupreous : secondaries with the external border cupreous or dull golden. Expanse of 
wings 56 millim. 
North-east Himalayas {Lidderdale) . 
OMIZA, Walk. 
Omiza pachiaria. (Plate CXIV. figs. 9 & 10.) 
Omiza pachiaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xx, p. 247 (1860). 
Wings above bright chrome-yellow, mottled with grey, but much less strongly in the 
male than the female ; an oblique brown dash at basal third of costa ; an acutely elbowed 
oblique brownish line across the disk; discocellular spot grey, oval and suffused with 
yellow in the male, rounded and with reddish centre in the female ; an apical spot, golden 
brown in the male and grey in the female, in both sexes irrorated with pearl-grey scales ; 
a rounded spot of golden brown near the centre of external area in the male, in the 
female replaced by ferruginous mottling which passes into a large patch of this colour, filling 
up the lower half of the external area ; in the female also the basal area is broadly tinted 
with ferruginous : secondaries crossed in the middle by a brown line, the upper half of which 
in the female is replaced by greyish ferruginous mottling, the external half of the wings in 
this sex being also almost entirely filled up with this colour : body pale yellow, more or less 
suffused with grey. Wings below bright gamboge-yellow, mottled with bright ochreous 
