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the former small ; medial line blackish, obUque to the reniform and inwardly 

 obUque from the orbicular to inner margin ; postmedial Une double, dark brown 

 filled in with wliitish, excurved to vein 6, Chen slightly waved to vein 3, then 

 incurved ; the postmedial area with a triangular chocolate-brown patch defined 

 on outer side by a white line from costa to vein 6, with a black subterminal 

 striga from its apex to discal fold, an oblique black bar from discal fold to vein 

 4, then whitish subterminal striae defined on inner side by black-brown above 

 and below vein 3 ; a terminal series of small black-brown lunules ; ciUa red- 

 brown chequered with dark brown and with a wliitish line at base. Hindwing 

 grey suffused with red-brown, whitish towards base ; a curved, sinuous, whitish 

 subterminal hne defined on inner side by dark brown from vein 6 to inner 

 margin ; a terminal series of small black-brown lunules ; ciha dark brown with 

 a whitish Une at base. Underside w liitish suffused with red-brown and irrorated 

 with blackish ; forewing with blacldsh discoidal spot, indistinct double post- 

 medial line excurved below costa, then oblique, and dark marks before the 

 subterminal Une from costa to discal fold ; liindwiug with large round black 

 discoidal spot defined by white, double curved postmedial hne, and faint 

 sinuous subterminal line. 



Hab. Formosa, Karapin (Wileman), 1 ,J type. Exp. 30 miU. 



6287a. Phlegetonia atribasalis n. sp. 



?. Head, tegulae, and patagia deep rufous mixed with whitish, the tegulae 

 with dark bars near base, the dorsum of thorax whitish suffused with rufous ; 

 antennae black ringed with wliite ; palpi white and fiery red barred with black ; 

 abdomen whitish with dark subdorsal shades to 5th segment, black dorsal streak 

 on 2nd segment, the terminal segments tinged with rufous ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen wliite mixed with rufous, the fore tibiae and tarsi 

 banded with black-brown. Forewing with the basal half grey suffused with 

 dark red-brown and blackish, its outer edge obhque and followed by a greenish 

 white shade except towards costa, the rest of wing grey suffused with rufous, 

 the terminal area brown towards tornus ; a black- brown spot on median nervure 

 near base ; antemedial Une double, blackish, filled in with white towards inner 

 margin ; orbicular a minute white spot defined by black ; reniform narrow, 

 somewhat angled inwards at median nervure, its centre tinged with green, a 

 sUght black mark in its lower part, a wliite bar above it from costa and double 

 shghtly waved black hne from cell to inner margin ; postmedial Une treble, 

 dark filled in with wliitish, sUghtly sinuous, obhque to discal fold, then incurved ; 

 a triangular black-brown patch on postmedial area from costa to vein 6, defined 

 by white and with three white points at costa, the wliitish subterminal Une 

 arising from its apex \vith a small black spot on its inner side below vein 5, 

 waved and angled inwards below vein 2 ; a terminal series of sUght black-browm 

 lunules defined on inner side by whitish. Hindwing whitish suffused with 

 brown ; a waved black-brown terminal Une except towards apex and tornus ; 

 ciUa red-brown \vith a white Une at base. Underside white mixed with fiery 

 rufous ; forewing with brown postmedial Une defined on outer side by white, 

 obhque from below costa to vein 6, then sUghtly waved and obUque below vein 

 4, a faint sUghtly waved wlutish subterminal Une with two sUght red-browm 

 spots at costa ; hindwing with elhptical black-brown discoidal spot defined 



