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SELEPA CELTIS (Plate 158, Fig. o,^). 



Sekpa Celtis, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 353, pi. 9a, fij;. 9, pi. K!, fig. 8, Sa (1857). 

 Suhrita ciirviferella, Walker, Catal. Lop. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 1745 (1865). 



Male : forewing pale violaceous greyish-cinereous, obliquely clouded with a darker 

 violaceous-brown tint across the lower exterior border, and the discal and basal 

 areas ; with a transverse antemedial slender black pale-bordered duplex line, which 

 is angulated outward and sinuous below the median vein and also waved and curved 

 slightly outward at the upper end ; a similar postmedial line which is more acutely 

 angulated inward and sinuous below the median, and curved slightly inward at the 

 upper end ; the pale outer border of the lines margined by a slight blackish sinuous 

 fascia, followed by a similar submarginal fascia, and from the postmedial line to the 

 posterior angle is a slight blackish oblique streak of raised scales ; orbicular mark 

 composed of a black spot of raised scales and bordered on its inner side by a pale 

 lunule ; reniform mark of pale-bordered black raised scales and enclosed by a slender 

 ring ; a slender black marginal line : hindwing cinereous-white, with pale cinereous- 

 brown outer border. Thorax, head, palpi, and forelegs above violaceous greyish- 

 cinereous; abdomen pale cinereous-brown; palpi beneath, and hindlegs cinereous-white. 

 Female : forewiugs paler, the antemedial duplex line angulated in front of the 

 orbicular mark, and the postmedial line more curved inward to the costa, its lower 

 end composed of raised black scales ; there is also a slender black streak above the 

 lower median and another below it, both of which end at the submarginal sinuous 

 fascia : hindwing and body paler than in male. 



Expanse -f-^ to ~ inch. 



Vaeiety. Female (Plate 158, fig. 4) : forewing with similar transverse markings, 

 between which is a lonnfitudinal medial black fascia. 



SELEPA STRIGIFERA (Plate 158, Fig. 3, 3a, larva). 



Forewing jjale violaceous greyish-cinereous, more or less longitudinally clouded 

 with darker violaceous-brown between the veins ; crossed by an outwardly oblique 

 angulated pale-bordered black antemedial line, and a similar postmedial line which is 

 widely and evenly curved outward from above the median vein to the costa ; followed 

 by a prominent black sinuous submarginal fascia; orbicular and reniform mark 

 composed of grey-bordered black raised scales ; the lower end of the transverse lines 

 and fascia also composed of raised scales in the female ; a slender black streak above 

 the lower median vein and another beneath it, the latter extending to base of the 

 wing ; the costal, subcostal, and median veins also slightly lined with black : hindwing 

 cinereous-white, with pale cinereous-brown outer border. Thorax, head, palpi, and 



