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the apical segmental margin ochraceous ; body beneath and legs 

 black ; a spot on each side of face, two small spots on each side of 

 mesosternum, and a small s])ot near posterior coxae ochraceous : 

 tegmina and wings black ; tegmina greyish-brown towards apex 

 and with five ochraceous spots in two transverse series, two near 

 base and three about centre ; wings with a broad transverse sub- 

 basal patch, follo\\ed by two contiguous spots near costal margin, 

 ochraceous, sometimes greyish, and. with a submarginal series of 

 greyish-brown spots in apical areas ; rostrum reaching posterior 

 coxae ; opercula in male small and widely separated. 



Var. a. Differs from the typical form by having the ochraceous 

 markings to the tegmina and wings replaced by pale greenish, the 

 upper basal spot of tegmina absent, the lower spot replaced by two 

 smaller ones ; both tegmina and wings with a submarginal series 

 of small whitish spots, and a small one of the same colour in each 

 of the two upper ulnar areas. 



Yar. consors. In this variety the wings have a much larger basal 

 patch of either ochraceous or pale greenish ; other markings to 

 tegmina and wings as in var. a, except that both basal spots are 

 present in tegmina as in typical form. 



Length excl. tegm., cJ 35, $ 33 ; exp, tegm., d" & $ , 90 to 

 102 milKm. 



H((h. Sikhim. Assam ; Naga and Kliasi Hills (OJiennell). 

 Margherita (Doherty). Samagooting and Dhansiri Valley {Ind. 

 Mus.). Burma ; Karennee {Fea). Tonkin. China. 



1646. Gaeana stellata, Walk. (Huechys) Ins.Smmd., Horn. p. 27 (1858) ; 

 Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. Iv, p. 154 (1886) ; Dist. (Gajana) Mon. 

 Orient, dead. p. 105," t. iii, f. 15, a, b (1892). 

 Var. a. Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 105. 



(S . Body with the colour and markings of G. maculata, but with 

 the abdominal segment beneath somewhat broadly margined 

 with ochraceous ; tegmina pale brownish-ochraceous, pale fuscous 

 on about apical third, base (including basal cell) blackish, a trans- 

 verse series of three large wiiite spots inwardly margined with a 

 blackish suffusion near centre, a submarginal series of smaller 

 wliitish spots in apical areas, and a still smaller spot in each of the 

 three upper ulnar areas ; wings blackish, a little paler between the 

 veins, with a pale spob at inner basal margin, a small discal 

 ochraceous streak, a series of four or five submarginal whitish 

 spots situate in the apical areas, and with the anal area greyish- 

 brown margined with fuscous ; rostrum reaching the posterior 

 coxfe. 



Var. a. $ . Tegmina with the ochraceous replaced with a hue of 

 dark cinnamon, and the fuscous shadings nearly black ; wings jet- 

 black, with the pale markings as in typical form. 



Length excl. tegm., c5' , 38 5 , 30 ; exp. tegm., J & $ , 

 98 millim. 



Hub. Assam ; Ivhasi Hills {Chennell). Margherita {Dolierty). 



