PLUTODES. — ABRAXAS. 
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Plutodes nilgirica. (Plate CLI. fig. 6.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Yellow, with pale red-brown markings, the edges of which are darker, and with a 
few silvery scales on them. Fore wing with a large patch occupying the whole base except 
above subcostal nervure, running out to an angle on the first median nervule ; a somewhat 
rounded patch occupying the whole outer area, leaving narrow yellow costal and outer mar- 
gins and a large patch of yellow on inner margin joined to the extremity of the basal patch. 
Hind wing with rounded outer margin ; a basal patch, which extends to the end of the cell 
and along three fourths of the inner margin, with a convex outer edge ; a large patch occu- 
pying most of the outer area, its inner edge indented between the median nervules, its outer 
edge rounded and slightly waved, and leaving a narrow yellow outer margin. 
The shape and extent of the markings are quite different from the other species of the 
genus ; the junction of the two patches of the fore wing distinguishes it from the other Indian 
species. 
ZERENID^. 
Abraxas irrula. (Plate CLII. fig. 1.) 
Expanse 1'^ inch. 
Male. AntennjE serrated. Wings pale drab-colour, with fuscous markings and numerous 
small fuscous speckles. Fore wing with a small basal orange spot ; a fuscous basal patch on the 
costa, beyond which is an indistinct band from the costa to the median nervure ; an indistinct 
medial band ; a postmedial interrupted one, which is joined at first median nervule by 
another band from the costa before the apex, with transverse streaks on the costa and inner 
margin beyond it; a series of marginal spots; cilia blackish in parts; cell clouded with 
fuscous, with a dark spot at its termination. Hind Aving with a dark spot at upper end of 
cell ; a maculate postmedial band ; the cilia pale : some specimens with an indistinct ante- 
medial band. Underside of fore wing more clouded with fuscous than the upperside. 
Thorax and abdomen orange, spotted with black. 
Female. More uniformly speckled and the bands of the upperside more indistinct. 
Abraxas adusta. (Plate CLII. figs. 14, 6.) 
Expanse, ^ 1§, $ !{} inch. 
Male. Antennae closely bipcctinated. Fore wing with a small basal yellow patch with a 
black spot on it ; the remainder of wing suffused wdth dark brown with a reddish tinge, 
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