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KOfTVIH-i:. 



rufous and irrorated with black, a black discoidal lunule and 

 minutely waved postmedial line. 



Hob. Sikhim (Atkinson, Moller, Dudgeon, Pitcher), 6 6 type; 

 Bengal, Calcutta, 1 6 • Exp. 42-46 millira. 



Genus GORTYNA. 



Type. 



Gortyna, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. (2) p. 330 (1825) leucostigma. 



Helctr -opha, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 118 (1857) leucostigma. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of Irons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, rounded ; antennae of male typically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibire 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests on basal 

 segments. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen crenulate ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna of male bipectinate with moderate branches ending in a 

 bristle, the apex ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line black defined by grey on 



outer side japonica. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line very indistinct except 



at costa dolia. 



4313. Gortyna japonica. 



Etiplexia japonica, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 504, pi. 51. f. 4 (Nov. 1889). 

 Hadena succincta, Grses. JBerl. ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 255 (March 1890); 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 175. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with greyish, 

 the tarsi ringed with white, the anal tuft more rufous. Pore wing 

 greyish suffused with dark brown, the postmedial area, except 



Fig. 3. — Gortyna japonica, c? . 



towards costa and apex, paler ; subbasal line represented by a 

 slight dark striga from costa ; antemedial line with two dark striae 

 from costa and strongly excurved below cell ; claviform faintly 

 detined by blackish at extremity ; orbicular indistinct, pale, slightly 

 defined by brown, oblique elliptical ; reniform very indistinctly 

 defined by blackish and with small white lunule with point 



