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strongly angled outwards ; claviform represented by a pale-edged 

 deep black triangular mark on inner side of anteraedial line and 

 conical mark on outer side ; orbicular and reniform deep black with 

 pale annuli, the former rounded or elliptical ; the poslmedial line 

 pale, defined on each side by black, minutely and irregularly dentate, 

 angled inwards below costa and in discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; 

 some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line 

 defined by dark suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 Aving whitish tinged with brown, especially towards termen, and 

 Avith fine brown terminal line ; the underside with the costal area 

 suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing more ferruginous red, without blue-grey 

 irroration, some black suffusion in cell before and between the 

 stigmata. 



Ab. 2. Paler; head, thorax, and basal half of fore wing ])ale 

 olive-greenish ; abdomen and hind wing whitish, the former with 

 the anal tuft rufous. 



Ab. 3. Ivnata. Tegulae black or with black line at base ; fore 

 ■wing brown suffused with purple, and without blue-grey irroration ; 

 claviform often minute or absent, orbicular more triangular. — Kuku- 

 noor, Kashmir, Thundiani. 



A\). 4. ch'ili/beata. Smaller; fore wing fuscous irrorated with 

 blue-grey, the markings less distinct, claviform minute or absent. — 

 Yatung. 



Hab. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 (5 , Amdo, Yatung (Hobson), Q d , G 2 'i 

 Kashmir, Rala (McArthur), 2 c? , 2 $ , Goorais Valley (Leech), 3 d , 

 (IViouipson) I di ^ 2, type lunata ; Punjab, Thundiani {Yerbnry), 

 1 5 ; SiKHiM {LidderduU, Ehves), 5 d , 8 § , type. Exp. 2G-34 

 millim. 



637. Hermonassa clava. (Plate LXVIII. fig. 23.) 



Graphiphora clara, Leech, Trims. Eut. Soe. 1900, p. 38. 



J . Head and thorax pale rufous, with some white scales on 

 vertex of head, at extremity of teguhe, and upper edge of patagia ; 

 j)alpi with some black at sides ; tibite and tarsi with some black 

 and ringed with white ; abdomen i)ale brownish grey, the ventral 

 surface tinged with rufous and fuscous. Fore wing ])ale rufous, 

 slightly irrorated with black ; the subbasal line white from costa to 

 Bubmcdian fold, defined on each side by black stria? from costa and 

 median nervure ; blackish spots above and below submcdian fold 

 before the waved white antcmedial line, which is slightly defined 

 by black scales and by two prominent stri;e from costa, angled out- 

 wards above inner margin ; claviform, orbicular, and reniform deep 

 black, with whitish annuli slightly defined by black scales ; claviform 

 moderate ; orbicular and reniform rather small, the former rounded ; 

 a waved diffused medial fuscous line slightly angled at median 

 nervure ; postmedial line double, filled in willi whitish, dentate and 

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



