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yellowish white suffused with brown especial ly on terminal area; 

 the underside white with some slight dark points on termen. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 2 $ type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



3797. Delta intermedia. 



Cloantha intermedia, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 53, pi. v. f. 13 (1864) ; 



Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 283: Staud. Cat. Lep. pal p. 183. 

 Auchmis sikkimensis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1 867, p. 49, pi. 0. f. 1.3. 



Head ochreous tinged with rufous, brown bars on fror.s and 

 between antennae ; teguke with three brown lines defined by white 

 on basal half, the terminal half ochreous mixed with brown and 

 with black and red-brown tips; thorax ochreous, the patagia with 

 black streak near upper edge which is red-brown, the dorsum with 

 paired black streaks, the metathoracic crest mixed with black ; legs 

 red-brown, the tibiae and tarsi with black streaks ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with rufous, the crests blackish at tips. Fore 

 wing ochreous suffused with red-brown, the cell and area beyond it 



Fig. 37. — Delta intermedia, $ . }. 



obliquely to apex and a fascia below it to origin of vein 2 ochreous 

 white ; a black streak in submedian fold from base to middle and 

 another above inner margin from near base ; a slight brown streak 

 in middle of cell ; reniform ochreous white defined by black, faintly 

 above, with rufous centre with pale bar on it, extending to well 

 below cell, narrowing above and below, with wedge-shaped rufous 

 mark before it in lower part of cell, the area round its lower part 

 deep red-brown with dark streaks on the veins, a black streak 

 beyond it above vein 4 defined by a whitish streak above ; a wedge- 

 shaped black mark above extremity of vein 6 and black streak 

 below it ; dentate whitish marks extending to termen defining 

 veins 5, 4, 3, which are slightly streaked with brown ; small dentate 

 black marks above extremities of veins 3, 2 ; a terminal series of 

 slight brown striae; cilia ochreous and red-brown. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, in female tinged with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown ; cilia yellowish white; the underside yellowish 

 white, the costal area tinged wpth rufous, the terminal area slightly 

 with brown at middle, a slight discoidal lunule and postmedial 

 series of black points on the veins. 



J Jab. Transvaal {Cholmley), 1 $ ; Natal, Victoria Distr. (Gooeh), 

 2 $ ; E. SiBEKrA, Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate, 1 $ , 

 Kiushiu, 1 cS , ^atsuma (Leech), 1 $, Tsuruga (Leech), 1 §, 



