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slightly defined by black, a short black streak on vein 5 from the 

 black edge of orbicular, then curved round and becoming the oblique 

 waved medial Wine ; postmedial line indistinct, blackish, below 

 vein 3 defined by whitish on inner side, bent outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, incurved at discal and submedian folds and bent out- 

 wards to inner margin, some slight pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 an indistinct diffused oblique greyish fascia from apex to middle of 





Fig. 61. — Prodenia rubrifiisa, J. {•. 



postmedial line ; subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, excurved at middle and slightly angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold; traces of a series of yellowish striae just before 

 termen ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia rufous with 

 fine yellow line at base and blackish tips. Hind wing semihyaline 

 white, the apex tinged with brown; a fine brown terminal line 

 from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area suffused 

 with fiery red, a series of black points on termen from apex to 

 vein 3. 



Hah. Jamaica, Runaway Bay ( Walsingham), 1 J type. Exp. 

 46 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing of male with the neuration normal. 



A. Fore wing with the upper extremity of reniform pro- 



duced to a very long narrow point defined on lower side 



by an oblique white mark dolichos. 



B. Fore wing with the upper extremity of reniform produced 



to a shorter, broader, and less oblique point defined by 

 white. 



a. Fore wing with curved white streak above medial part 



of inner margin pulchella. 



b. Fore wing without curved white streak above medial 



part of inner margin. 

 a 1 . Fore wing with the white streak on vein 2 continued 



to subterminal line ardrogea, 



6b Fore wing with the white streak on vein 2 ending at 

 postmedial line. 

 a 2 Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards 



from submedian fold to inner margin litura. 



b 2 . Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards 

 from vein 1 to inner margin. 

 a 3 . Fore wing with more or less distinct diffused 

 oblique violaceous white fascia from apex more 

 prominent in male. 

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