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line and whitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing reddish brown 
with a fine whitish line at base of cilia. 
Q. Patagia purplish black on outer edge; fore wing with 
purplish black suffusion irrorated with silvery scales from base 
to postmedial line except at costa and from the angle of the 
postmedial line to apex. 
Hab. Stxuim, 1800' (Dudgeon), 1 Q type, Srncarore (ltidley), 
26. Exp. 34 millim. 
Genus ASINDUMA. ie 
Asinduma, Wik. Tourn. Linn. Soc., Zool. vii. p. 167 (1864)... exscripta. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 
of head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons 
smooth with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antennz of male almost 
simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without 
crest, the metathorax with depressed crest; tibiae smoothly scaled; abdomen 
with dorsal crests on two basal segments. Fore wing with the costa arched 
near base, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 
veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anas- 
tomosing with 8 to form a long areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 
veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6,7 
from upper angle; 8 anastomesing with the cel! near base only. 
A. Fore wing with the chocolate-brown on termina] area not 
extending to costa before the reniform. 
a. Fore wing with the subterminal line highly dentate ...... exscripta. 
6. Fore wing with the subterminal lire minutely dentate ...  olivana, 
B, Fore wing with the chocolate-brown on terminal area ex- 
tending to costa before the reniform ...................eeeee0e+ eleota. 
6584. Asinduma exscripta. 
Asinduma exscripta, Wik. Journ. Linn. Soe., Zool. vii. p. 167 (1864) ; 
Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 78, pl. 11. f. 15. 
¢. Head red-brown irrorated with white; thorax olive-green ; 
pectus and legs white, the latter irrorated with red-brown, the 
tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface 
Fig. 103.— Asinduma exscripta, S. 
T° 
brownish white. Fore wing olive-green with a silvery gloss; 
indistinct oblique waved subbasal and antemedial lines, the former 
ending at submedian fold; a slight discoidal lunule defined on 
