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costa to vein 6, then hardly traceable, waved, some short red 
streaks beyond it on costa and a streak on vein 9; traces of a 
rather punctiform reddish subterminal line ; cilia red. Hind wing 
purplish pink, tinged with brownish towards base ; a black spot at 
tornus defined above by a whitish Iunule; cilia pale pink; the 
underside with diffused dark postmedial line excurved below costa, 
then oblique. 
Hab. Burma, FE, Pegu (Doherty), type t 2 in Coll. Rothschild. 
Exp. 36 millim. 
6627. Arachnognatha metascotia. 
Arachnognatha metascotia, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, xi. p. 451 
(1897). 
Head and thorax greyish brown; tegule and patagia olive-green, 
the latter edged with brown above; pectus and legs whitish tinged 
with brown, the fore tibie greenish; abdomen whitish tinged with 
brown especially towards extremity, the crests brown. Fore wing 
olive-green, the basal and inner areas with some brown suffusion 
and irroration except at tornus; a waved dark line close to base 
from costa to vein 1; antemedial line indistinctly double, brown, 
waved, curved, with dark spot at inner margin, an elongate dentate 
loop beyond it on vein 1; a point of raised dark scales in middle of 
cell; reniform defined by brown and with some brown in centre, 
round ; an oblique brownish medial shade from costa to reniform ; 
Fig. 116.—Arachnognatha metascotia, 3. 4. 
postmedial line whitish to diseal fold and oblique to vein 6, below 
vein 5 brown, dentate, and inwardly oblique with whitish striga at 
inner margin, some minute brown streaks and whitish irroration 
beyond it on costa and a streak below vein 8; subterminal line formed 
of dentate brown marks defined slightly on outer side by whitish, 
somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a terminal series 
of blackish points; cilia brown. Hind wing greyish brown, the 
inner margin suffused with blackish towards tornus and with white 
postmedial bar; the underside brownish ochreous with diffused 
sinuous brown medial line. 
Ab. 1. Fore wing with the markings redder brown; hind wing 
with a faint reddish tinge, the mark at tornus chocolate-brown. 
—Singapore. 
Hab. Assam, Khasis, 1 ¢,1 2 type; Srvearore (Iidley), 1 ¢. 
Exp. 34-38 millim. 
