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Show 6 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON N E W [Jan- 5' margin broadly but diffusely ferruginous, irregularly blotched with black, and bounded internally by an undulated blackish line; an elongate, whitish marginal spot near anal angle: body pale clay-coloured ; the pterygodes red-brown, tipped with whitish and dark brown on the shoulders; second, third, and fourth segments of abdomen with more or less defined, inverted, V-shaped markings in the middle : wings below altogether paler ; primaries with discoidal area dull tawny, internal margin stramineous, external half crossed by transverse series of brown spots, outer margin rather broadly and irregularly pale brown ; secondaries whitish clay-colour, a spot within cell, and five undulated, partly interrupted, transverse lines (the outermost one indistinct and confounded with a sprinkling of scales of the same colour on external area) brown: body clay-coloured, palpi and thorax deeper-coloured; abdomen with two ventral series of central grey spots. Expanse of wings 2 inches 9 lines. Haiti (Tweedie). Type, B.M. Allied to C. parce. Subfamily CHJEROCAMPIN^E. Genus P A N A C R A. 9. P A N A C R A M E T A L L I C A , n. sp. Allied to P. my don. Differs in its greater size, longer and more acute primaries, with the outer margin well excavated below the apex; apical half much yellower ; transverse lines more oblique, not undulated, the central ones very distinct, four in number, angulated just before reaching the costa; secondaries longer, more acute at the apex, the ochreous streak less diffused; body longer, thorax more uniform in colouring, abdomen with the lateral golden streak broader, more distinct; primaries below brown, with the costa and outer margin, a discocellular point, several liturse in a discal series, one or two more subapical, and a squamose, dentated, subanal patch bright ochreous; disk also varied with red, and clouded at apex and centre with brown ; a submarginal series of markings, the two nearest apex white and lunate, one at external angle black and white, ovate, the intermediate ones forming a semi-connected irregular grey streak; secondaries brown, with the costa, outer margin, a spot at anal angle, and a submarginal anal streak bright ochreous, irrorated with red ; a bright yellow discocellular point; two irregular, ill-defined, central dark brown lines ; disk plumbaginous : body below creamy, speckled with ferruginous ; abdomen with a lateral series of black points. Expanse of wings 2 inches 9 lines. North India (Parry). Type, B.M. This is labelled by Boisduval with his M S . name of P. mydon; it is not, however, Walker's type. Genus DAPHNIS, Hiibner. 10. D A P H N I S PALLESCENS, n. sp. Allied to D. hypothous, same general pattern; primaries with the |