Proceedings of the scientific meetings of the Zoological Society of London, 1889

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428 COL. C. SWINHOE ON NEW [Nov. 5, margins of fore wings whitish, and with the white subcostal marks as on the upperside. Expanse of wings 1| inch. Hab. Sikhim. One specimen purchased from Mr. Paul Mowis, and one received from Mr, Irvine. From E. signata, Butler, this differs in its extremely dark colour, broader wings, the outer margin of both fore and hind wings being even, not sinuous as in E. signata. On the fore wing the antemedial diffuse black line is inwardly oblique, this line in E. signata being erect and excurved ; there is no duplex medial transverse line, which is conspicuous in E. signata. MACARID*. GUBARIA SUBALBATARIA, n. sp. Male. Palpi and antennae dull ochreous ; head, thorax, and general colour of both wings chocolate-grey ; head beiween antennae ochreous yellow, as also is the abdomen, which has a chocolate-grey dorsal stripe, broad at the base, and tapering to and terminating at about one third from the apex ; all the grey portions are powdered with white; in reality the ground-coloration is white, but the chocolate-grey irrorations are so dense as only to leave the ground-colour show­ing through in places ; there is a very broad medial oblique white band right across both wings, and this band is also thickly covered with grey irrorations, making it look dirty greyish white; the band does not quite touch the costa of the fore wings, it has an inner sin­uous grey, and a straight outer darker line, this line being sometimes inwardly margined with pure white ; a brown lunule at the end of cell in fore wings, a broad one at end of cell in hind wings, a costal sub­apical angular dark patch on fore wings and one (sometimes two) dark distal streaks outside the band on the hind wings ; marginal line brown ; fringe ochreous grey, interlined. Underside : body and legs ochreous, unmarked ; wings with a broad band as above, but pure white, space inside the band being also white, marked with brownish and ochreous striations, the space outside the band dark chocolate-brown, with a whitish subapical spot on fore . wings, and a whitish marginal patch on hind wings towards anal angle, but this patch is wanting in some specimens. The female differs from the male in being of dark olivaceous-grey colour; the palpi, body below, legs, and abdomen above and at the sides are white instead of ochreous, there being merely some ochreous colour in the centre of the abdomen below; the antennae are grey speckled with white, the central broad stripe across the wings above is duller, the outer margin diffuse, the straight line being wanting; in the wings below the outer third is nearly black and unmarked', except for the subapical white spot on the fore wings, the inner two thirds is pure white, irrorated with purplish brown, more thickly so near the base inside the band, which is indicated by a blackish sin­uous line. Expanse of wings lT 8jj inch.