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xoctuid.t:. 



tore legs blackish brown in front ; abdomen fulvous. Fore wing 

 grey-white irrorated with brown ; a small blackish subbasal spot 

 on costa ; antemedial line with small blackish snot at costa with 

 orange striga from it and oblique blackish line from cell to inner 

 margin : a black discoidal bar placed on a brownish medial band 

 interrupted by slight orange streaks below costa and cell ; the post- 

 medial part of costa with white points with brown streaks between 

 them ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined on inner side by 

 brown and with dark brown patches beyond it at apex and above 

 tornus, angled outwards to termen at vein 4, then incurved and 

 bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of small blackish spots 

 with white stria? before them and some orange between them ; cilia 

 dark brown irrorated with white. Hind wing grey- white, the 



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Fig. 10. — Arwoptera pictalis, $ . 



whole discal area suffused with bright rufous, the apical area dark 

 brown ; a dark subbasal mark on inner area ; a black discoidal bar; 

 postmedial line whitish, sinuous ; subterminal line whitish, excurved 

 to near termen at middle and bent outwards to tornus; a terminal 

 series of small blackish spots defined on inner side by whitish stria? 

 and with some fulvous between them ; cilia brown irrorated with 

 white ; the underside grey suffused with brown, a blackish dis- 

 coidal bar. 



Hub. CnvLON, Pundaloya {Green), 1 $ type. Exp. 10 millim. 



5015. Arseoptera xanthopis. (Plate CXL1X. fig. IS.) 



Arceopterwm xanthopis, Hrupsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. (>72 

 (1907). 



J . Head and thorax white mixed with fulvous ; palpi and irons 

 blackish ; antenna? blackish except towards base ; abdomen whitish 

 and fulvous at base, then black with the extremity pure white ; 

 fore legs blackish in front; mid and hind legs, pectus and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white. Pore wing grey suffused with fuscous, 

 the basal inner area and tne apical area from costa beyond middle 

 to tornus white tinged with brown ; the costa, subcostal nervure, 

 and discal fold to middle with fine black and white streaks ; a 

 waved black antemedial line; a diffused black discoidal spot ; post- 

 medial line black, oblique from costa to discal fold and bent in- 

 wards below vein 4 ; the costa towards apex Avith alternating red- 

 brown and white marks ; subterminal line indistinct, white defined 



