814 



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liir^jc, ■white defined Ity black except at base uiid with short black 

 ptronk ill ccntrr; orliicnlnr niid rcniform white d«'fincd by black 

 and with black ci-iitrcs, the former round, the cell between them 

 black: a waved black medial lino; postmedial lino double, black 

 filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 incurved at discal lold and below vein 4 ; subterminal lino repre 

 pented by a serit^ of white lunules in the inter8i)aces defined on 

 inner side by dentate black murks and with black streaks from them 

 to the terminal series of blark lunules; cilia chequered white and 

 black. Hind wing white, the veins slightly tinged with l»rown 

 towards tormen ; a fuscous terminal line ; cilia white ; the under- 

 side with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, a postmedial 

 series of minute dark streaks on the veins. 



Hah. SviuA, Akbes, type t d , in Coll. Obcrthiir. Exp. 34 milliiu. 



2482. Lamprosticta gemmea. 



Mi.<rli/i ffri>unca,Tre'\t. Sclimctt. Eur. v. 1, p. ."{'.i.J (18"J.'>); Dup. I/p. Fr., 

 Suppi. iii. p. 2()lt, pi. 1.'4. f. 1 : llt-rr-Scliall. Eur. .Sclimctt., Noct. f. 70; 

 Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 411. ff. 1, 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 173. 



Head white mixed with dark brown, thefrons and vertex of head 

 with dark bars; antenna* brown ringed with white at base; 

 tegula? yellowish white at base bounded by black and white lines 

 and with brown tips ; patagia and thorax brown, with black and 

 white scales near ujiper edge of former ; pectus with whitish hair 

 exccj)t in front ; tilna? and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 brown. Fore wing olive-brown, the medial area beyond and below 

 cell and above vein 1 and the terminal area tinged with purplish, the 



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Fig. 102. — lAtmprostkta gcmmca, cJ. 



veins irrorated with white ; subbasal line double, black lillcd in with 

 white, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, black 

 tilled in with white, angled outwards below ensta, exeurved below cell 

 and al)ove inner margin and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 

 defined by black, with some white scales or entirely filled in witli 

 white; orbicular and renitorm white defined by black, the former 

 round with some black in centre, the latter with its centre defined 

 by black ; a dentate black medial line, obli(jue from costa to median 

 nervure, then inwardly «)bliquo ; postmedial line double, black tillefl 

 in with white, bent outwards below costa, then single and defined 

 by white on outer side, slightly to vein 2, dentate, exeurved to 



