358 NOCTTTID.^. 



•flefined by deep red, oblique from costa to submediau fold ; the 

 antemedial line pale, defined on each side by red, angled outwards 

 below costa, incurved to above inner margin, where it is strongly 

 angled outwards ; stigmata deep red, with pale annuli defined by 

 red, the claviform pointed at extremities, bisected by antemedial 

 line, the orbicular elongate elliptical ; a slight oblique medial shade 

 from cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line double, dark with 

 pale middle, minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; the sub- 

 terminal line defined by dark suffusion before it and the pale terminal 

 area, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and e.xcurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown ; the underside with the costal area reddish irrorated witli 

 brown, a small discoidal spot and sinuous diffused postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. cuprhia. Head, thorax, and fore wing much darker red ; 

 hind wing black-brown. 



Hah. SiKHiM {Lidderdale, Dudf/eon), 2 c? , 2 $ ? type cuin-lna. 

 Ed'i>. 40 millim. 



G32. Hermonassa cecilia. 



Hermor.assa cecilia, Butl. A. IVf. N. H. (o) i. p. 164 (1874) ; id. 111. Het. 



B. M. iii. p. 14, pi. sliv. fi'. 7-'.». 

 Opi^ciiu areiiosa, Eiitler, Trans. Eut. Soc. 1881, p. 179. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown, the tips of tcgula? and dorsal 

 crests with some yellowish, tcgulaj with slight blackish and white 

 medial line ; tibial spurs and tarsi with yelloAvish rings ; abdomen 

 dark brown. Fore wing dark red-brown slightly irrorated with 

 black; the subbasal line greyish, with Mack marks on each side of 

 it below costa and cell ; a short orange streak on subcostal nervure 

 and oblique striga across cell before the antemedial line, which is 

 double, black filled in with greyish, angled outwards below costa 

 and more strongly above inner margin ; stigmata blackish, with 

 orange annuli defined by black, the claviform bisected by the 

 antemedial line and pointed towards base, the orbicular diamond- 

 shaped ; a slight medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of 

 cell ; the postmedial line double, filled in with grey, dentate and 

 produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 angled iuAvards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; the sub- 

 terminal line defined by fuscous on inner side, most prominently at 

 cost a, angled outward at vein 7 and excurvcd at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale at 

 tips ; the underside paler, the costal area ochreous irrorated with 

 fuscous, a small discoidal spot, sinuous po.stmedial line, and traces 

 of subterminal line. 



Hah. Japan, Tokio (Jonas), 1 J , 1 5 ? type arenosa, Yokohama 

 (Maries, Fryer), 3 cT , 3 $ type, Hakodate, 1 $ ; C. China, Kiukiang 

 (Pratt), 2 J. E^ji. 40-42 millim. 



