ELYDNA. 173 



pale grey tinged with pole reddish brown ; subbasal line slight, 

 dark, straight, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 blackish, oblique, straight or slightly incurved in submedian inter- 

 space, slightly bent inwards to costa ; orbicular represented by a 

 minute dark point, the reniform by some white scales ; a diffused 

 dark medial shade, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 erect ; postmedial line blackish, erect, straight, slightly bent inwards 

 to costa, with minute black streaks beyond it on the veins; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, dark, rather diffused, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle; a fine brown terminal line with minute white 

 points at the veins ; cilia grey-brown with a slight yellowish line 

 at base. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; a fine brown 

 terminal line; cilia whitish with a yellowish line at base; the 

 underside white, the marginal areas irrorated with brown, a brown 

 discoidal lunule, diffused sinuous subterminal line, and terminal 

 series of black striae. 



Ilah. Puxjab, Kulu (Hocking), 2 2 > Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 J 

 type, Dalhousio (Harford), 2 $ . Exp. 32 ruillim. 



4524. Elydna bisignata. (Plate CXLI. fig. IS.) 



Cosmia bisignata, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Soc. xvii. p. 476 (190G). 



$. Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous, palpi while, 

 the extremity of 1st joint and 2nd joint except at extremity black : 

 antenna? fuscous ; fore and mid tibiae fuscous, the tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with white ; abdomen gre3 T ish white with faint ochreous 

 segmental rings, the ventral surface white. Fore wing greyish 

 ochreous slightly tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown; sub- 

 basal line represented by a small black spot on costa and indistinct 

 striga in cell ; antemedial line with small black spot on costa, then 

 pale brown defined by whitish on inner side, obliquely incurved ; 

 orbicular and reniform with very faint pale annuli. the former 

 round, the latter constricted at middle and with rather S-shaped 

 black mark on its inner edge confluent with an oblique blackish 

 patch from costa ; an indistinct incurved pale line from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin with dark point on it in diseal fold ; post- 

 medial line double, pale brown filled in with whitish, and with 

 black point on the inner line at costa, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; a quadrate black patch on costa before the sub- 

 terminal line, which is indistinct, pale, slightly defined by fuscous 

 on inner side, minutely waved and ending at tornus ; a terminal 

 series of black striae ; cilia ochreous white tinged with rufous 

 and with blackish tips except towards tornus. Hind wing ochreous 

 white tinged with brown especially on the veins and terminal area ; 

 a fine brown terminal line ; cilia with a fine white line at base ; the 

 underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 a slight dark discoidal lunule. 



Hab. Madras, Bellary, Ramandrug (Cample!!), 1 $ type. E.rj->. 

 34 millim. 



