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much curved, reaching level of the eyes, third joint lanceolate, about half length of 

 the second; antennas slender, setose; legs rather slender, femora slightly fringed 

 beneath, tibias slightly pilose, spurs long. 

 Type, D. placens. 



DINUMMA PLACENS (Plate 156, Fio. 11). 

 Dinumma placens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1806 (18.58). 



Forewing purplish violet-brown, with a transverse basal and an antemedial zigzag 

 black line, and a postmedial irregularly undulated black line, indistinctly bordered by 

 a slender purplish-white line ; the outer margin traversed by reddish and dark brown 

 fasciae and with a submarginal row of short bluish-white longitudinally disposed spots, 

 the third spot from the apex and the lowest being enclosed in a large black spot ; the 

 broad medial area darker glaucescent violet-brown ; reniform mark small, black : 

 hindwing pale violet-brown. Body cinereous-brown ; teguliB, and crests violet-black ; 

 palpi, and legs brown ; tarsi with pale bands. 



Expanse l^^j inch. 



Genus GADIRTHA. 

 Gadirtha, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xiii. p. 1102 (18o7). 



Male : forewing long, narrow ; costa arched, exterior margin slightly angular in 

 the middle, very oblique hindward, posterior margin convex towards the base ; cell 

 extending more than half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end 

 of the cell, second at one-fourth, trifid, third at one-third from base of second, and 

 fourth at one-half from base of third, fifth from end of the cell and joined to third by 

 a short spur near its base ; discocellular bent outward below the middle, radials from 

 upper end and near lower end ; middle median from angle below end of the cell, 

 lower at more than one-third before the end ; submedian much curved from the base : 

 hindwing short, rather narrow ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular 

 very slender, deeply concave, bent close to lower end, radial from the angle ; middle 

 median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at more than one-third ; submedian 

 and internal vein straight. Body stout, abdomen extending beyond hindwings, keeled 

 above ; palpi long, ascending, second joint laxly squamose, reaching to level of eyes ; 

 third joint linear, compressed, two-thirds length of second ; antennae stout, serrated ; 

 legs stout, jDilose, middle and hind tibia3 with stout spurs. 



{Type, G. impingens.) 



GADIRTHA RECTIFEEA. 

 Gadirtha rectifera. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 897 (1865), ?. 



" Female. Cinereous, mostly whitish beneath : forewings shaded here and there 

 with pale brown ; a black dot at the base, and a black almost straight slightly oblique 



