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wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly cu 

 and slightly crenulate ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 5 from just above 

 tngle ; b' from upper angle; 9, 10 strongly anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 Je; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 8,4 shortly stalked; 5 nearly 

 fully developed from just below middle of discoceJlulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing with the postmedial line white. 



a. Fore wing purplish red with prominent white costal 



fascia albicosta. 



b. Fore wing pale rufous with a yellowish tinge pyraliformis, 



B. Hind wing with the postmedial line not white javanica. 



5385. Arasada albicosta. (Plate CLVI. fig. 14.) 

 Oruza albicosta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 349 (1894). 



$ . Head and tegulae deep chocolate-brown ; thorax and abdomen 

 pale rufous with a white band on prothorax ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing rufous tinged 

 with flesh-pink and slightly irrorated with black, the costa white 

 narrowing to a point near apex ; traces of a waved yellowish ante- 

 medial line ; a black point at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line 

 defined by yellowish on outer side, dentate, slightly incurved at 

 discal fold and strongly below vein 4, two black points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal lino faint, yellowish, waved, excurved at 

 middle, with traces of a series of black points on its outer edge; a 

 terminal series of slight black lunules defined on inner side by 

 yellowish. Hind wing rufous irrorated with black ; a black point 

 at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line pure white slightly defined 

 on each side by fiery red, somewhat luuulate, very slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 6, then obliquo ; traces of a subterminal series of 

 black points; a terminal scries of slight black lunules; the under- 

 side whitish tinged with brown, an indistinct dark discoidal striga 

 and diffused oblique postmedial line. 



Hub. Burma, Rangoon (Scott), 1 £ type; Singapore (llidley), 

 1 $ . Exp. 28-34 millim. 



5386. Arasada pyralif oralis. 



. Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 189, pi. 172. ff. 1, 1 a (18 



Hmpsn. Moths lnd. ii. p. 348. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous ; pectus and vent nil surf 

 of abdomen paler, the hind legs whitish. Fore wing pale rufous 

 irrorated with black, the costa whitish, narrowing to a point at 

 apex ; a faint yellowish antemedial line, excurved below median 

 Dervure and incurved at vein 1 ; a small black spot at lower angle 

 of cell; postmedial line faint, yellowish, minutely waved, slightly 

 angled inwards in discal fold and oblique below veiu 4 to middle of 

 inner margin, some black points beyond it on costa ; a subterminal 



