ESTIGMENE. 339 



1855. Estigmene interfixa. (Plate XL VII. lig. IS.) 



Phaos interfixa, Wlk. iii. 027 (18.55) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 2(i2. 



S . Head and thorax black ; fruiis yollow or <;reyish ; te,i,'ulie and 

 patagia more or less strongly edged with yellow; legs mostly yellowish, 

 the femora scarlet above; abdomen scarlet above with dorsal scries of 

 short black bands, the ventral surface yellowish with lateral and ven- 

 tral series of black spots. Fore wing black, with scarlet fascia on or 

 below basal part of costa; the spots yellowish white or bright yellow, 

 and either small or occupying nearly the whole of interspaces ; wedge- 

 shaped spots in and below base of cell ; quadrate patches in and 

 below end of cell, a small wedge-shaped spot above base of vein 2, 

 and streak above end of cell ; a postmedial series of spots excurved 

 to vein 3, then incurved ; subterminal and terminal series of spots 

 conjoined into short streaks ; a deeper orange streak on inner margin 

 and a short streak beyond discoecllulars. Hind wing pale or deep 

 orange, with diffused black streaks from base on median nervure and 

 vein 1 ; a large discoidal lunule ; a broad terminal black band, its 

 inner edge indented at middle, and with subterminal orange snots 

 on it at middle and above vein 1. 



Hah. Tasmania (/. -/. Walker), 6 d" type. Exp. 40 millim. 



1850. Estigmene imbuta. 



Arctia imbuta, Wlk. iii. 014 (1855) ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. v. p. 33, pi. SQ. 

 f. 2; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 21 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. pp. 248, 257. 



Head and thorax dark olive-brown ; basal joint of antennae and 

 vertex of head yellowish white ; tegulao and patagia with yellowish 

 edges ; spots behind the head and femora above crimson ; the tibite 

 and tarsi with slight yellow points ; abdomen crimson above, female 

 with a dorsal series of black points, rarely present in male, the 

 ventral surface brown or with broad sublateral yellowish-white 

 stripes with series of black points on them and some ventral whitish 

 points. Fore wing with the veins yellow ; a white point at base, 

 a subbasal white point below costa, and antemedial points below 

 costa and in cell, sometimes absent ; an irregular antemedial mark 

 below the cell formed of two spots conjoined by a streak in sub- 

 median fold; a small spot in end of cell with another on costa above 

 it and one below vein 2 ; a spot below end of cell ; a postmedial 

 series of spots excurved to vein 3, the medial and postmedial spots 

 in submedian fold often conjoined by a streak ; three obliquely 

 ])Liced spots towards aj)ex ; a curved series of spots on medial pait 

 of terminal area and a terminal sei'ies. Hind wing entirely dark, 

 with the veins yellowish ; antemedial, medial, and postmedial 

 white spots on costal area, or with more or less interrupted and 

 reduced postmedial and terminal yollow bands ; or yellow with 

 diffused blackish streaks on basal half and subterminal maculate 

 band. 



J/ah. X.W. HniALAVAs, Simla, J) alhousie (Harford), 1 J , 1 $; 

 SIKlu.^r {Liddcrdale, BliKjliain), 1 J , 4 $ , type. Exp., J 50, 

 2 58-68 millim. 



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