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termen obliquely curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the angle; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from just below middle of discocellalars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anas- 

 tomosing with the cell near base oul}'. 



2248. Charidea elegantissima. 



Charidea elegantissima, Gueu. Noct. ii. p. 61, pi. 8. f. 12 (1852). 



S • Head and thorax clothed with grey, red-brown, and dark- 

 brown scales ; frons and vertex of head with black bars ; tegulae 

 with black medial line and darlc red-brown tips ; patagia with 

 whitish band in front; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 pale purplish brown with some whitish hair at base and slight 

 white segmental lines, the ventral surface dark brown mixed with 

 rufous and whitish, and with ventral series of small white spots. 

 Fore wing violaceous-grey tinged with pink and irrorated with 

 brown, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line represented 

 by black bars from eosta and cell defined by white on outer side ; 

 olive-green patclies irrorated with and faintly defined by black on 

 basal area below the cell and vein 1, defined by white above and on 

 outer side ; a small black spot in cell before the antemedial line,, 

 which is fine, double, brownish, angled outwards below costa, then 

 very outwardly oblique and slightly downcurved to just above 

 middle of inner margin, where it joins the similar postmedial line 

 which is strongly bent outwards below costa, curved to vein 4, then 

 very oblique to above inner margin ; the medial area with large 

 V-shaped olive-green patch, slightly irrorated and edged with 

 black and defined by white lines, its arms arising from subcostal 

 nervure and vein G and its apex above middle of inner margin ; 

 orbicular and reniform with pinkish centres defined by white, the 



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 Fig. 43. — Charidea elegantissima, S . \. 



former a narrow oblique bar, the latter rather V-shaped, emitting 

 a fascia from its lower extremity below the cell to the orbicular, or 

 bisecting the inner arm of V-shaped mark and extending to ante- 

 medial line, an olive-green spot edged with black between them in 

 cell ; some white points on costa beyond the postmedial line ; sub- 

 terminal line represented bj^ a series of rather dentate black spots 

 in the interspaces with white lunules on them ; a fine black 

 terminal line with white line on its inner side ; cilia brown with 

 fine white line at base and intersected with white. Hind wing 



