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Satara. Wlk. XXXI. 320 (1864) distinguenda. 



Arctioneura, Feld. Reis. Nov., p. 2 (1874), non descr ccquata. 



Meringocera, Feld. Reis. Nov., p. 6 (1874) distinguenda. 



Tatargina, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 366 picta. 



Pangora, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 42 (1879) distorta. 



Melanareas, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. t VII, p. 29 (1899) imperialis. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect to just or well beyond the frons ; 

 head and thorax smoothly scaled ; tibiae with the spurs short. Forewing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle, or abnormally 4-5 

 shortly stalked ; 6 from upper angle ; 7. 8. 9. 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hindwing 

 with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6'7 from upper angle ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



Sect. I. (Alope.) Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches, of 

 female serrate. 



A. Hindwing crimson or yellow 1206. ricina. 



B. Hindwing pale brownish 1207. transversa. 



Sect. II. {Areas.) Antennae of male bipectinate with 



very short branches. 

 A. Abdomen dorsally crimson or tinged with scarlet. 



a. Forewing with the ground-color scarlet 1278. i>icla. 



b. Forewing with the ground-color not scarlet. 

 a x . Hindwing crimson. 



a 2 . Forewing with double oblique series of spots or 

 maculate band from lower angle of cell to 



inner margin 1224. sipahi. 



ft 2 . Forewing with irregular white fascia from base 

 to beyond the cell. 

 o s . Forewing with the fascia continued obliquely 



to termen below apex 1223. pannosa. 



ft 2 . Forewing with the fascia joined by a band 



from costa before apex 1222. dentata. 



i T . Hindwing yellow, often partly suffused with 

 crimson. 

 a 2 . Forewing with white fascia in cell and subme- 



dian interspace 1229. imperialis. 



& 2 . Forewing with white spots in cell and submedial 



interspace 1228. galactina. 



c 2 . Forewing with narrow oblique medial fuscous 



band 1183. melanopsis. 



B. Abdomen orange above. 



a. Forewing with postmedial white band arising from 



costa well before apex 1226. tripartita. 



b. Forewing with oblique band from apex 1225. obliyuifascia, 



1228. Pekicalia galactina, insert Areas cana. Druce. 



