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Show 464 MR. L. DE NICEVILLE ON NEW OR [May 3 Described from a single specimen in the collection of Mr. Otto Moller. HALPE HONOREI, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 8, $ .) Hab. Pulni Hills, South India. Expanse. 2 I'5 m c n- FEMALE. UPPERSIDE : both wings fuscous. Fore wing with the base clothed with yellow hair-like scales, more or less forming streaks between the veins; a large rhomboidal spot at the outer end of the discoidal cell, two elongated ones, the upper twice the size of the lower, in the median interspaces, two or three subapical conjugated increasing spots, all semitransparent glistening yellow. Hind wing with all but the costal margin as far as the second subcostal nervule and the outer margin somewhat narrowly and the abdominal margin clothed with long yellow setae ; a large discal yellow patch beyond the cell divided by the dark nervules and enclosing a blackish dot in the second median interspace. UNDERSIDE : fore wing black, all except the costal margin increasingly, the apex widely and the outer margin decreasingly, which are yellowish ochreous; the semi-transparent spots as above, with two additional somewhat diffused opaque spots placed one above the other near the middle of the submedian interspace, which appears in a somewhat constricted form on the upperside in one specimen. Hind wing yellowish ochreous throughout; a black spot at the end of the cell, and about six between the veins outside the cell; some obscure submarginal blackish spots; the abdominal margin and a streak in the sub-median interspace black. The markings of this species remind one at once of those of Plastingia no'emi, mihi1; but there is only one spot in the cell of the fore wing, and the yellow patch in the hind wing is larger iu the species now described. Described from somewhat worn specimens collected by Father D. Honore', S. J., in the Pulni Hills of South India. PLESIONEURA FLAVOCINCTA, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 9, 2 •) Hab. Bhutan. Expanse. 3 2'3, 2 2"7 inches. M A L E . UPPERSIDE : both wings black. Fore wing with the base (all except a round spot in the submedian interspace just beyond the origin of the first median nervule and touching it) thickly clothed with large tawny scales; a quadrate transverse spot beyond the middle of the cell, five conjoined subapical quadrate spots divided by the veins, the two lower ones shifted outwards, a narrow linear spot in the second median interspace, a quadrate one equal in size to that in the cell in the first median interspace, two much smaller ones placed obliquely (in one specimen conjoined in the right-hand wing) in the submedian interspace, all semi-diaphanous pale ochreous white. Cilia black, all except a small portion on the submedian interspace, which is yellow. Hind wing with 1 Journ. A. S. B. vol. liv. pt. 2, p. 120, pl. ii. fig. 15, J (1885). |