ABRAXAS. —ICTERODES . 
83 
ZERENlDiE. 
ABRAXAS, Leach. 
Abraxas pusilla. (Plate CXIX. fig. 9.) 
Aliraxas pusilla, Butler. Ann. 4' ^^lag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 225. ii. 59 (1880). 
Allied to A. leopardinata, but only of about two thirds the size : primaries with the 
central interrupted band expanded into a broad grey nebula occupying about a third of the 
wing ; discal series of spots double, more or less confluent, and forking towards the costa ; 
marginal spots regular and generally confluent : secondaries with both the discal and 
marginal series of spots small and regular. Expanse of wings 38 millim. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale) , Nepal. 
There is no doubt of the distinctness of this little species. A. leopardinaia, according to 
Walker, was an assemblage of three or four quite distinct species. 
ICTEEODES, Butl. 
Icterodes conspersa. (Plate CXIX. fig. 10.) 
Abraxas conspersa, Butler, Ann. Sj- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 225. u. 60 (1880). 
Wings sericeous white : primaries above spotted and speckled with dark olive-green, 
the spots forming five bands — the first basal, indistinct; the second subbasal, formed of three 
rounded spots, immediately followed by two larger, almost lunate, spots and a rounded one 
on inner margin ; third and fourth each of two closely approximated series, which combine 
into one band towards the inner margin; fifth formed of three series — the first of oval 
submarginal spots, the second of confluent lunate marginal spots, the third of semicircular 
spots on the fringe : secondaries with a discocellular spot, one or two dots towards base of 
abdominal margin, a discal interrupted series of two or three small subcostal and one or 
two large abdominal spots ; a submarginal series, a marginal series of elongate spots, 
and a series alternating with the latter upon the fringe, all blackish : body ochreous, 
spotted with black. Primaries below with all the markings sericeous grey. Expanse of 
wings 62 millim. 
Darjiling {Lidderdale) . 
Allied to /. lapsariata, but smaller, the white intervals between the bands o£ primaries 
mottled all over with olive dots, and the central bands of large spots rather more sinuous. 
This and the following species, though destitute of the bright yellow colouring of the known 
forms of Icterodes, correspond in structure with that genus. 
M 2 
