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LITHOSIID^. 
the median nervure ; a spot on the middle of the costa ; a distinct black spot at end of cell, 
with a small one on the costa above it, and two below it near the submedian nervure; a 
waved and broken indistinct submarginal band, beginning on the costa as a distinct blotch ; 
a series of antecilial specks. Cilia ochreous white, a few of them black. Hind wing slightly 
darker. Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen whitish. 
Closely allied to jE. nilgirica, but the ground-colour of the fore wing is whiter, and all 
the markings are larger and more distinct. 
.ffimene quinquefascia. (Plate CXL. fig. 15.) 
Expanse £r inch. 
Male anA female. Fore wing ash-colour, with five irregular waved black bands ; a black 
spot near base, with one above it on costa ; the first band subbasal, followed by a spot in 
centre of cell ; the second band, which is diffused, immediately after it ; a black lunule at 
end of cell ; with the third band below it, from first median nervule to inner margin, and the 
fourth across the wing immediately beyond it ; followed by the fifth, a diffused band, from 
costa to second median nervule; a series of antecilial black spots. Hind wing whitish in 
male, fuscous in female. Underside : fore wing suffused with fuscous, the apex and apical 
portion of costa ochreous. 
Allied to yE. taprobanis, but darker, with more numerous and diffused, but less curved, 
bands. 
A very constant species ; there is a series from the Nilgiris in Mr. Moore's collection. 
Paidia fumipennis. (Plate CXL. fig. 7.) 
Expanse, ^ |, $ | inch. 
Male and female. Fore wing smoky brown ; the margins darker, especially towards the 
apex; a very indistinct straight band across middle of wing; a small yellow longitudinal 
patch on the costa two thirds from base, and another on the outer margin at exterior angle. 
Antennae, head, collar, and anal tuft of male yellow ; thorax and abdomen brown. 
Nearest to P. marginata, which is larger, and has all the margins and the thorax and 
abdomen yellow, 
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Didnga fulvicosta, (Plate CXL. fig. 16.) 
Expanse inch. 
Female. Fore wing dark brown, the area near the outer angle paler; irregular ochreous 
costal and exterior bands composed of series of triangular patches, the costal series diminishing 
in size from the base to the apex, the exterior series from the outer angle to the apex ; one 
