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Show 1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 409 the male, with the veins darker coloured, and without the yellow borders to the wing; hind wings and entire surface of both wings below pale reddish yellow, unmarked, the veins on the hind wings above rather prominent; antennse, body above and below, and legs reddish brown; thorax with a pale suffused band in front, and abdomen with pale segmental bands. Expanse of wing, 3 1 inch, 2 1TU-1""U) mc^- Hab. North Kanara, June 1887. One male and two females received from Mr. Wise. From C. bilinea, Walker, this species may be distinguished by the dark brown colour of the fore wings, and the two dark transverse lines in the male, these two lines in the female being of a pale colour. MIRESA CRISPA, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 4.) General colour of a uniform reddish chestnut-brown; antennae, abdomen, hind wings, and underside paler; head and fore part of the thorax bright orange-yellow ; fore wings shining, embossed with numerous crimped markings across the wings, and in some lights with some silvery speckles, which at the apex are collected together into a small patch ; an indistinct straight band of darker colour from centre of hinder margin to costa close to the apex, the band in some lights having a pale centre, making it look like two thick lines close together. Hind wings with the discoidal cell, the costal space above, and the anal border whitish. Underside unmarked; legs chestnut-brown, fore legs with white markings, with a large white spot on the inner side in the female, a long white stripe on the tibia above, and several white bands on the tarsus above. Expanse of wings \ inch. Hab. Darjeeling. One good example, which has been unnamed in m y collection for years. This insect may be distinguished from all other described species of the genus by the peculiar transverse rows of short raised striga? on the fore wing. MIRESA PROPEXA, n. sp. Ochreous brown, covered with blackish-brown atoms; fore wings with two dark brown bands-first discal, composed of two patches of atoms, one touching the hinder margin in the centre, inclining outwardly, and adjoining the other patch which is in front of the cell; second band submarginal, extending from the apex to the hinder angle ; the hind wings are unmarked and are darker than the fore wings, as also are the antennae, body, and legs; wings below paler than above, with some dark suffusions here and there. This insect varies somewhat in coloration, some specimens being much paler than others, and on these the outer band on the fore wings is more complete. Expanse of wings 1 inch. P R O C . Z O O L . Soc-1889, N o . XXVIII. 28 |