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Show 244 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON N E W [Mar. 16, primaries below dnll ferruginous, yellow at base and smoky along costa ; a submarginal irregular ochraceous band, diffused in the centre internally, intersected and partially bounded by brown lines ; outer margin brown : secondaries dull pale tawny, becoming golden yellow on abdominal area; costa and base greyish ; disk crossed by two lunulated discal parallel lines ; outer margin unequally bordered with brown : palpi white ; pectus reddish grey ; abdomen grey, irrorated with tawny scales. Expanse of wings 2 inches 7 lines. Ceylon (T. Skinner). Type, coll. F. Moore. This magnificent species approaches M. mitchellii of Boisduval. Genus LOPHURA, Walker. 16. L O P H U R A MASURIENSIS, n. sp. (Plate X X X V I . fig. 3.) cS 2 • Primaries above pale rose-brown, varied with greyish lilacine; two black dots near the base, four indistinct oblique sub-angulated transverse brown lines ; a central subolivaceous oblique band, intersected by two opposed bisinuated black lines and interrupted at end of cell by a triangular olivaceous patch, bounded on one side by the costa, enclosing a discocellular pitchy spot crossed by a pale brown streak, and limited just below third median branch by a black litura ; disk hatched and clouded with olive-brown, a short bimacular whitish litura running obliquely inwards from excavation of inner margin ; an irregular sinuated brown disco-submarginal line, terminating upon costa in a brown lunate spot; costa from the latter to base brown-spotted ; outer margin irregularly red-brown, edged internally with black towards apex and bounded by a lilacine nebula: secondaries with basal half orange, apical half dark pitchy brown ; costa whitish, varied with blackish : body rose-brown, head with a central V-shaped brown marking: thorax streaked with olivaceous or reddish brown : abdomen rather cinereous in the centre, tawny at the sides, with the segments pink-edged and fringed with dark brown, two lateral series of oblique red-brown dots, the inner series interrupted above the fourth segment; anal tuft cinereous in the centre, black-brown at the sides : primaries below dark brown, base yellowish; an interrupted tawny spot at end of cell; the disk near costa and inner margin tawny ochraceous, varied with whitish and hatched with dark brown; outer margin shining slate-colour, inner margin dotted with whitish : secondaries tawny ochraceous, whitish on abdominal area, hatched and dotted with red-brown, costa grey-spotted ; outer margin dark cinereous, black-edged internally : body below pinkish grey at the sides, reddish ochraceous in the centre ; abdomen with a double ventral series of triangular white points ; lateral tufts brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. cS 2 Masuri, N.W. Himalayas. Type, coll. F. Moore. 17. LOPHURA PUSILLA, n. sp. Primaries above grey, with pink reflections ; a white-edged subbasal nebulous brown spot; a central oblique olive-brown band fading away at first median branch, and on each side of it a brown litura: a subtriangular brown patch at end of cell, interrupted bv |
