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of cell ; rom upper angle ; from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie 

 nreole ; 11 from cell. Hind wiTig with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 /> obsolesient from just below angle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle 

 or shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour yellow icferias. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous or rufous repetita. 



1440. Hypol)arathra icterias. 



Xylina ■icfcria.% Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1843. iii. p. 548; Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. 

 Schmett., Noct. f. 02(1 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 174. 



S • Head and thorax fulvous with a few dark scales ; legs 

 tinged with fuscous ; abdomen fulvous yellow irrorated with dark 

 scales below. Fore wing yellow, suffused with fulvous and irrorated 

 with a few dark scales ; the costal edge dark ; subbasal line very 

 indistinct; antemedial line oblique, waved; claviform defined by 

 fulvous and black ; orbicular and reniform defined by fuscous, the 

 former yellow, the latter white with fuscous centre ; a fuscous 

 medial line angled at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line 







Fig. 3:"). — Ihjpoharathra icferias, S • t- 



obsolescent, represented by short dark streaks on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; some 

 yellow points on costa towards apex ; subterminal line only 

 defined by the area beyond it being suffused with fuscous, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 small blackish lunules ; cilia with black points at tips. Hind wing 

 yellow, the veins beyond middle with some dark scales ; the 

 terminal area below apex slightly darker ; the underside with slight 

 discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



5 . Fore wing paler, with the markings less distinct. 



IJah, llussiA, Urals; Amukland, 1 J, 1 5, Ussuri. Exp.^S-42 

 millim. 



1441. Hypoharathra repetita. 



Xylophasiarepetifa, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vii. p. 52, pi. 127. ff. 1, 2 (1899) ; 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 202. 



Head and thorax rufous tinged with fuscous ; tarsi with pale 

 rings ; abdomen rufous with a yellowish tinge. Fore wing greyish, 

 more or less completely suffused with rufous and irrorated and 



