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waved band ; a postmedial slightly curved and waved black band from fourth costal spot, 
bent inwards as it nears the inner margin ; followed by a lunulate obsolescent band from 
fifth costal spot ; a diffused dusky submarginal band ; an antecilial lunulate black line. 
Underside slightly suffused with fuscous; the postmedial band traceable but obscure; outer 
area of fore wing smoky black, leaving white patches at apex and centre. 
Alcis nilgirica. (Plate CL. fig. 12.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Ground-colour pale grey, with smoky brown and black suffused over the greater 
part of both wings. Fore wing with a waved dark band, with pale inner border, from costa 
one third from base, curved inwardly to inner margin; a black spot at end of cell, and 
an indistinct dark waved and inwardly- oblique band just beyond it; a distinct lunulate black 
band with pale outer margin from costa one third from apex to centre of inner margin; an 
obsolescent pale lunulate submarginal band ; a waved black antecilial line. Hind wing with 
black spot at end of cell, and three blackish waved bands — one from costa one fourth from 
apex to centre of inner margin, one submarginal, one antecilial. Underside ochreous white : 
fore wing with a dark spot at end of cell, and three on the costa between base and centre ; 
the area outside the postmedial band suffused with black, except for two pale patches, one at 
apex, the other at centre of outer margin : hind wing with spot at end of cell, and obso- 
lescent submarginal line. 
Serraca transcissa. Walk. (Plate CL. fig. 6.) 
Serraca transcissa, Wall-. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. p. 380. 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Female. Pale brownish grey, irrorated with dark scales; an indistinct black irregular 
antemedial line, outwardly-oblique from costa to subcostal nervure, then straight across the 
cell, and inwardly-oblique to inner margin near the base ; an indistinct pale stigma outlined 
in black at end of cell ; an indistinct postmedial, somewhat dentate line, outwardly-oblique 
to lower subcostal nervure, then inwardly-oblique to centre of inner margin ; a broken lunulate 
submarginal band. Hind wing with indistinct antemedial line ; a distinct pale stigma out- 
lined in black at end of cell ; a curved dentate medial band with some diffused umber-brown 
beyond it ; a lunulate submarginal band. Both wings with a series of black marginal lunules. 
Underside uniform pale fuscous ; both wings with a large black spot at end of cell, broken 
postmedial band, and indistinct diffused patch near apex. Vertex of head and antennae pale. 
Tephrosia angulata. (Plate CL. fig. 7.) 
Expanse If inch. 
Male. Grey, striated and speckled with dark brown. Fore wing : costa closely striated 
with dark brown ; an irregular dentate antemedial band, with some diffused ochreous brown 
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