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costal border between the inner and outer line, and also the exterior border below 

 the middle, suffused with pale purple ; an indistinct brown-lined reniform mark ; the 

 area below the middle of the cell, below the apex, and above the posterior angle 

 glossy cupreous ; a minute black dot at end of upper median vein ; in the female is 

 a blackish-grey bordered streak extending along the median vein to the outer discal 

 line, and a purplish-white bordered streak below the lower median vein : hindwing 

 pale ferruginous-brown, the base cinereous-brown. Head, palpi, and fore legs 

 ochreous-yellow, the scales mostly tipt with red ; thorax behind purplish-ferruginous, 

 abdomen pale ferruginous-brown, tarsi brown. 



Expanse If to \\ inch. 



Larva half looped, with fourteen legs; dark violet-brown; with a longitudinal 

 subdorsal row of scarlet and yellow spots, and a sublateral row of white dots. Pupa 

 dark reddish-brown. 



ORiESIA ARGYROSIGNA (Plate 153, Fig. 4, cJ ). 



Male : forewing dark purplish violet-brown, with numerous short transverse 

 blackish waved strigjB, some blackish transverse subbasal waved streaks below the 

 cell, an oblique medial fascia extending from end of the cell to the middle lobe on 

 the posterior margin, a transverse discal duplex black line, which is bent acutely 

 inward to the costa before the apex, followed by a submarginal sinuous black hne ; 

 the medial fascia and the area above posterior angle glossy cupreous in some lights ; 

 median vein and its middle branch black ; reniform mark large, broad, defined by a 

 black line ; a silvery- white oval spot before the apex : hindwing dark brown ; cilia 

 cinereous-brown. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs purphsh violet-brown ; front of 

 thorax and streaks on the head purple-red ; abdomen above sepia-brown. 



Expanse If inch. 



Genus ARSACIA. 

 Arsacia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxxiv. p. 12(J (1865). 



Male. Wings small : forewing elongated, costa slightly arched before the end, 

 not acute at the apes, exterior margin oblique, slightly convex, posterior margm 

 lobate towards the base, the angle and lobe fringed ; cell long, fusiform, extending 

 two-thirds the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-fourth before end of the cell, 

 second at one-eighth, quadrifid, the third at one-half from base of the second, the 

 fourth at one-half from base of third, the fifth being emitted from below the second 

 at one-third from its base ; discocellular slightly concave, upper radial from end of 

 the cell, lower from angle close to lower end of the discocellular ; middle median at 

 about one-eighth before end of the cell, lower at two-fifths before the end; submedian 

 slightly recurved : hindwing rather long, apex very convex, exterior margin very 



