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underside ochreous white tinged with brown, a brown discoidal 

 lunule, curved postmedial line, and indistinct diffused subterminal 

 line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the white areas tinged with violaceous. 



Hah. Assam, Khasis, 2 2 type procrita ; Siaji, Biserat (Annan,' 

 dale), 1 2, Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), tvpef 5 in Mus. Oxon. ; 

 Bali (Doherty), 1 $ . Exp. 22 millim. 



*5837. Hyperstrotia meeci. (Pla^e CLXV. fig. 21.) 



Rivula meeki. Beth. -Baker. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 211 (1906). 



J. Head and tegulse red-brown ; thorax white mixed with dark 

 bvown ; pectus and legs white tinged with brown, the fore tibiae 

 brown with white points, the tarsi brown ringed with white; 

 abdomen reddish brown. Fore wing pale red-brown, the basal 

 area with white mixed, the antemedial area with some chocolate- 

 brown in cell, the medial area chocolate-brown in and below cell : 

 an indistinct w r hite subbasal line from costa to vein 1; antemedial 

 line very indistinct, white, incurved in cell and ending at vein 1 ; 

 orbicular represented by a white point ; the reniform slightly 

 defined by white, round ; postmedial line white, defined on inner 

 side by chocolate-brown, slightly excurved below vein 4, at middle, 

 and vein 1 ; the postmedial area purplish fuscous irrorated with 

 white between veins 6 and 1 and with some white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line white, almost obsolete towards costa, excurved at 

 middle and incurved at vein 2, some dark streaks beyond it in the 

 interspaces of apical area ; a terminal series of small dark brown 

 lunules defined on inner side by a waved white line; cilia pale 

 brown and fuscous mixed. Hind wing pale reddish brown : cilia 

 whitish tinged with yellow at base, brown at apex ; the underside 

 ochreous white, the apical area tinged with brown, an indistinct 

 curved postmedial line and slight subterminal white line from apex 

 to discal fold. 



Bab. Br. New Guinea, Aroa B., (Meek), type f tf in Coll. 

 Bethnne-Baker. Exp. 22. millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with veins 10, 11 widely separated. 



A. Fore wing not uniform yellowish white. 



a. Fore wing with black spot on costa before antemedial 



line cetkeria . 



b. Fore wing without black spot on costa before antemedial 



line. 

 a 1 . Fore wing not yellowish to postmedial line. 



a.-. Fore wing without elliptical yellowish white 



claviform olefta. 



b 2 . Fore wing with elliptical yellowish white claviform. 

 a 3 . Fore wing with the whole medial area suffused 



with rufous flaripuncta. 



b 3 . Fore wing with yellowish patch tinged with 



rufous on inner medial area macroplaga. 



b l . Fore wing yellowish to postmedial line semiochrea. 



I!. Fore wing uniform yellowish white albida. 



