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189—11.] reaching from the inner angle to the lower diseoidal nervule; the area enclosed by the coalescing of the hastate markings forms a series of six rounded spots regularly increasing in size, the anterior spot the smallest, the posterior one the largest, these spots are of a slightly darker shade than the pale fulvous apical area, but not so dark as the dark, rich reddish-fulvous of the rest of the wing. Hindu;in with the abdominal and outer margins rather paler than the rest of the wing; a submarginal series of seVen black markings, of which the anterior one is a small lunule with its concave edge directed towards the base of the wing, the next ﬁve markings are hastate—shaped,* increasing in size from the anterior one to the posterior one in the ﬁrst median interspace, the seventh posterior marking somewhat quadrate in form, and occupying the whole width of the submedian interspace; a ﬁne black anteciliary thread. UNDERSIDE, both wings of a reddish-fulvous of not quite so rich a shade as on the upperside. Forewng with a small irregular black marking towards the base of the cell; a highly irregular and ziz-zag black line crosSes the middle of the cell and extends both to the costa and to the submedian nervure, the posterior portion of the line is broken and shifted outwardly below the median nervure ; the upper, middle, and anterior half of the lower disco-cellular nervule deﬁned by a black line; an irregular discal black line from the costa to the snbmedian nervure, just touching the lower end of the cell; beyond the line is a series of ﬁve somewhat cordate, reddish ocelli, each ocellus centred with a whitish lunule and bounded by a ﬁne whitish and then a ﬁne black line, the four anterior 00elli equal-sized, the ﬁfth posterior one in the ﬁrst median interspace a little larger; beyond these ocelli is another irregular black line from the costs to the inner margin, this line is narrower and paler than the discal one; the spaCe between these two lines is anteriorly some- what paler than the rest of the wing; a submarginal nebulous straight blackish band; a very ﬁne anteciliary black line. Hindwz'ng with an irregular sub-basal and a discal black line, the latter posteriorly curving round and almost meeting the posterior end of the former, both termina- ting above the anal angle on the submedian nervure; a series of ﬁve ocelli on the disc similar to those in the forewing, the posterior one the largest and rather misshapen, the anterior one the next largest, the threc in the middle nearly equal sized; the outer discal fulvous line and

’3‘ The late Professor J. 0. Westwood well described these peculiar and characteristic markings of the genus Stichophthulmu as being built up of a much curved lunule on the margin coalescing inwardly with a spear-shaped spot. To me these markings havea curious likeness to the black silhouette of the head and shoulders of a human ﬁgure, especially the third marking from the anal angle of the hindwing in the specimen here ﬁgured.