THALATHA. 17 



tinged with rufous; a brownish postmedial spot below vein 6 ; 

 cilia chequered rufous and white; the underside with t)\e costal 

 and apical areas suffused with rufous and irrorated with dark 

 brown, a diffused blackish bar from middle of costa, a brown 

 discoidal spot and diffused sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), type f J in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker. Exp. 42 milliiu. 



3621. Thalatha conjecturalis. 



Thalatha sinens, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zoul. vi. p. 187 (18(i2), var. nee 



1856. 

 Bi-yophila conjecturalis, Swinb. Trans. Ent. Sue. 1890, p. 222, pi. \ii. f, 10; 



Hmpsu. Moths lnd. ii. p 242. 



Head and thorax white, the head and tegulae mixed with pale 

 rufous: palpi with black point at extremity of 2nd joint; frons 

 with black lateral spots ; tegulse with black dorsal point ; patagia 

 with blackish outer edge; metathornx with paired black points ; 

 pectus and legs tinged with reddish brown, the tarsi banded with 

 blackish ; abdomen white tinged with red-brown, the basal crest 

 black at tip. Fore wing pure silvery white slightly irrorated with 

 reddish brown ; a blackish subbasal spot on costa ; a black fascia 

 diffused below, curved from base of costa to below cell, then up to 

 median nervure at antemedial line, which is indistinct, brown, 

 double, waved, oblique ; an obliquely curved medial black line with 

 diffused brown band beyond it from costa to vein 1, a strong- 



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oblique black fascia from it to outer edge of postmedial line in 

 submedian fold ; reniform represented by a slight dark lunule on 

 the black band ; postmedial line double, the lines rather widely 

 separated, the outer line with series of black points on it, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 3, 

 some dark points beyond it on costa and a brownish bar from costa ; 

 an indistinct irregularly waved brownish line representing the 

 inner edge of subterminal line from the brown bar to submedian 

 fold and some brownish marks on the outer edge of the line: a 

 terminal series of small black spots and a wedge-shaped spot iu 

 submedian fold ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing 

 white suffused with brown; a terminal series of slight dark 

 lunules ; cilia white with series of pale brown spots ; the under- 

 side white tinged with red-brown, a brown discoidal lunule, 

 slightly waved curved postmedial line, and terminal series of slight 

 lunules. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial band extending from costa to 

 reniform only. — Borneo. 



Hah. Bombay, N. Kanara, Karwar (Bell), 1 5 ; Burma, Bangoon, 

 1 9 tyP e ; Borneo, Sarawak, Sandakan (Pryer), 1 J . Exp. 32- 

 36 millim. 



