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patch of similar character : head yellow ; collar white ; anus whitish^ rest of body above 
reddish. Under surface cream-colour^ the discal patches of the upper surface represented 
by similar smoky grey patches. Expanse of wings 30 millim. 
North India {James). 
Both of Walker's types were received in the same collection, which was probably made in 
Assam. 
Plutodes discigera. (Plate CXTX. fig. 2.) 
Plutodes discigera, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Eist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 223. n. 53 (1880). 
Wings above citron-yellow : primaries with a semicii-cular basi-internal patch of coffee- 
red, bordered with plumbaginous, and continuous with a broad triangular patch which 
occupies the basi-abdominal two fifths of the secondaries ; all the wings with a large oval 
discal patch of coffec-red, crossed by a zigzag darker red line and bordered with plum- 
baginous : body red-brown ; back of head, collar, and anal tuft pale yellow. Under surface 
pale creamy yellow, all the wings with a large chocolate-brown oval patch occupying nearly 
the whole of the disk : secondaries with pale reddish-brown basi-abdominal area. Expanse of 
wings 32 millim. 
India. 
This species was placed by Walker with P. cyclaria. 
Plutodes flavescens. (Plate CXIX. fig. 3.) 
Plutodes flavesccBS, Butler, Ann. 6,- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 223. n. 5-i (1880). 
Nearly allied to the preceding, but the wings of a lemon-yellow colour, the discal 
patches comparatively smaller, more rounded in form, the line across them considerably 
more zigzag, forming in the primaries ten, instead of three, angles ; body redder. Expanse 
of wings 34 millim. 
North-east Himalayas [Lidderdale). 
Plutodes exquisita. (Plate CXIX . fig. 4.) 
Plutodes exquisita, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 223. n. 55 (1880). 
Primaries above sulphur-yellow, with sericeous costal border ; outer margin and fringe 
citron-yellow ; an irregularly quadrate basi-internal rust-red spot with blackish margin ; 
disk almost wholly occupied by a broad rust-red belt, washed with pinky reddish internally 
and ochraceous externally, and traversed by a darker zigzag line, not reaching the costal 
margin, but edged at its uj)per extremity with plumbaginous, bordered internally by two black 
lines and externally by a single black line flecked with plumbaginous : secondaries with the 
