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also crossing tbe middle area which is also longitudinally clouded with blackish-brown ; 

 beyond the discal line is a broad angular blackish fascia, and a shorter marginal fascia, 

 the two fascia3 divided by a pale lunular line ; a mai^ginal row of black dentate luuules ; 

 orbicular spot black, punctiform, reniform mark pale ferruginous, and black streaked : 

 hindwing purplish blackish-brown, somewhat ashy-grey brown towards the base, with 

 a large pale blue discocellular spot and a small contiguous spot near abdominal margin, 

 a similar coloured broad recurved discal band, and a narrow subanal marginal band. 

 Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above reddish-ferruginous ; abdomen ashy-grey brown 

 above; thorax and base of abdomen beneath whitish ; tarsi blackish with pale ferru- 

 ginous bands. 



Expanse, $ 2|, ? 3|- inches. 



ARCTE TAPEOBANA (Plate 160, Fig. 1). 

 Forewing dark olivaceous asnescent-brown ; crossed by outwardly-oblique basal 

 and subbasal ferruginous-bordered black sinuous partly confluent bands, with a black 

 costal dot between the first and second ; an outwardly curved discal lunular black 

 line, followed by a contiguous less distinct lunular fascia and a broad shorter 

 marginal fascia, the latter traversed by a row of cupreous-red dentate spots ; a 

 prominent marginal row of black oval spots bordered by cupreous-red ; within the 

 middle area and contiguous to the discal line is a parallel ferruginous-brown lunular 

 fascia ; a small black punctiform orbicular spot, and a short broad black-streaked 

 reniform mark : hindwing senescent -black, ashy greyish-brown towards the base ; 

 traversed by three interrupted anal series of small greyish-blue dentate spots ; cilia 

 towards the apex tipt with white. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above dark 

 ferruginous-brown; palpi beneath, pectus, and legs beneath ferruginous-yellow; 

 tarsi black with pale bands ; abdomen above ashy greyish-brown, tip pale ferruginous ; 

 abdomen beneath blackish \\ith whitish segmental spots. 

 Expanse 2|- inches. 



Genus CATEPHIA. 

 Catephia, Ocbsenlieimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 94 (1816); Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sdimett. j). 260; 

 Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 43 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1124. 



Wings moderately broad ; forewing elongated, costa straight, rounded at the 

 apex, exterior margin slightly oblique and convex, scalloped ; cell long, narrow, 

 extending three-fifths the length; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the 

 cell, second at one-fifth before the end, trifid, third at one-eighth from base of second, 

 and fourth at two-thirds from base of third, fifth from end of the cell, slightly 

 touching the third near its base ; discocellular bent inward in the middle, radials from 

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

 at one-third ; submedian curved from the base : hindwing short, apex very convex, 



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