(407 ) 



This is the palest and simplest form ; a second, ab. rubra, is wholly rufous 

 instead of olive : in both there is sometimes a black blotch from costa to vein 6 in 

 the postmedian shade of hindwing. Each of these paler forms is liable to intensifi- 

 cation by the lines and shades darkening to deep fuscous or blackish, ab. intensa. 



Underside of pale form yellow, tinged with reddish fulvous, and with the liaes 

 red ; of the dark form intensified by various shades of rich brown, red, and yellow. 

 The ? is always darker and more strongly marked than the S. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen in the pale form pale olive-ochreous, but varying 

 according to the coloration of the wings ; sides of shoulders, base of costa, palpi, 

 and pectus always bright red. 



Expanse of wings : 40 — 44 mm. 



21 c?(?,9 ? ?. 



Forewing with apex produced, subfalcate ; hindmargin strongly bowed at 

 middle, especially in the ? , where the apes is more produced aad the hindmargin 

 more deeply sinuate beneath ; hindwing truncate at apex ; hindmargin produced 

 at vein 7, and crenulate, slightly in c?, deeply in ? ; costal and subcostal veins 

 of hindwing swollen at base into a kind of fovea ; cell of hindwing half the 

 length of wing. 



Subfamily ENNOMINAE. 

 Antarchia gen. no v. 



Foreiving : elongate ; costa curved throughout ; apex slightly produced ; 

 hindmargin sinuate. 



Hindiving : triangular ; anal angle rectangular ; apex rounded ; hindmargin 

 nearly straight. 



Antennae simple, lamellate ; palpi upcurved, second segment thick, rongh- 

 haired, third short, pointed, deflesed. Tongue and frenulum present. 



Neuration : forewing, cell one-third of wing ; discocellular vertically concave ; 

 first median at two-thirds, second and third from end of cell ; radials normal ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked from close before end, lo just before them; 11 out of 12, 10 an- 

 astomosing shortly with 11 : hindwing, costal shortly approximated to subcostal, 

 veins 3 and 7 just before angles of cell ; no radial ; all the veins straiglit. Scaling 

 fine and close. 



Type : Antarchia subrubescens spec. nov. 



129. Antarchia subrubescens spec. nov. 



Forewing'.: straw-colour, with a faint flesh-coloured tint along inner margin 

 and a flesh-coloured submarginal shade distinct only towards anal angle ; fringe 

 flesh-colour. 



Hindwing : with the submarginal band complete and distinct throughout ; 

 a slight flesh-coloured tinge towards hindmargin : fringe deeper. 



Underside fluslied with pale rosy ; costa and apical area of forewing with 

 sparse brown dots. 



Palpi below red ; apex of second segment and the third blackish ; face 

 Ijjack ; vertex and antennae brown ; thorax and abdomen like wings, abdomen pink, 

 tinged towards anal segments ; pectus and forefemora dull rosy; (legs bniken). 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



1 ?. 



