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A. Fore wings with a deep black streak from the base. 



B. Fore wings greyish, marbled with purple-brown. 



C. A broad, oblique, whitish stripe in the dark clouding. 



contigua. 

 0^. The dark clouding cut off below by a straight black 



bar. gcnistce. 



B^. Fore wings purple-red, a yellowish blotch above the 



basal streak. thalassina. 



W. Fore wings purplish-brown, a paler stripe along costa 



from base, suasa. 



B*. Fore wings whitish clouded with pale brown. 



pcregrina. 

 A^. No basal black streak. 



D. Forewings purple-red or liver coloured. 



E. Subterminal line white with a long W. oleracea. 

 E^. Subterminal line yellow, expanded above anal angle. 



pisi. 

 D-. Fore wings pale grey-brown, uniformly mottled with 

 darker. chenopodii. 



D^. Fore wings slate-grey clouded with black. 



F. The three stigmata conspicuously whitish. glaitca. 

 YK An oblique, forked, white central blotch edged with 



black. dentina. 



1. H. contigua, Vill. — Expanse 1| to If inch. Fore 

 wings purplish-brown marbled with brownish-white and black ; 

 a broad pale stripe from the middle of the costa to the anal 

 angle, and a distinct W in the hind margin ; hind wings 

 whitish-brown. 



Antennae of the male simple, densely ciliated, brown ; palpi 

 moderately tufted, dark brown, more whitish in front ; head 

 yellowish-white or yellowish-grey tinged with dark brown 

 between the antennse ; collar yellowish-grey or whitish in its 

 lower half, sharply barred above the middle with purple- 

 brown or purplish-black, above this the edge is ashy-grey ; 

 remainder of the thorax dark brown mixed with ashy-grey ; 



