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LIPAEIDiE. 
Charnidas colon. (Plate CXL. figs. 3, 19.) 
Expanse, 1^, ? li-l§ inch. 
Male reddish brown. Female ochreous brown. Fore wing irrorated with black scales ; 
two superposed black spots just beyond the cell, the lower one sometimes obsolete, sometimes 
diffused along the median nervure ; a large black subapical patch situated below the lower 
subcostal nervule, and extending below the first discoidal nervule. Hind wing of the same 
colour as the fore wing in each sex, but paler and without the black scales. Underside 
slightly darker. Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen of the same colour as the fore wing. 
A female from the western slopes is rather darker than specimens from the plateau. 
Nearest to C. exclamationis, but a much browner insect, and with a dark subapical spot to 
fore wing. 
Charnidas pallida. (Plate CXL. fig. 10.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Male. Ochreous grey, with a slight fuscous suffusion ; fore wing with some dark scales 
below centre of cell ; the apical portion of costa and outer margin with some fuscous 
maculate marks. Underside with the fuscous suffusion rather deeper. 
Lselia nniformis. (Plate CXL. figs. 4, 20;) 
Expanse, 1^, ? 1^=^ inch. 
Male. Fore wing uniform ochreous grey ; costa and cilia paler. Hind wing paler than 
fore wing. Underside : fore wing suflPused with fuscous except towards inner margin ; hind 
wing slightly suffused with fuscous towards costa. 
Female. Fore wing ochreous white, irrorated with black scales, which are thickest just 
below median nervure. Hind wing and underside paler, and without the black scales. 
Not very closely allied to any other species of the genus. 
Artaxa siihfuscula (Plate CXL. figs. 5_, 11.) 
Expanse, c? 1^, ? H inch. 
Male uniform bright ochraeeous. Female reddish brown ; both sexes with the fore wing 
crossed by indistinct waved antemedial and postmedial pale bands. Male rather darker along 
the costa of fore wing on the underside. Female with anal tuft smoky black. 
Artaxa variegata. (Plate CXL. fig. 6.) 
Expanse 1\ inch. 
Female. Fore wing pale brown with pale narrow bands, and dark broad bands formed by 
the ground-colour being powdered with dark scales ; basal area pale brown, followed by a 
dark band one fourth from base; a narrow pale band, then a broad dark medial band with 
