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nervure near extremity of cell, angled inwards in submedian fold 
and incurved below vein 1; beyond the cell the white fascia is 
produced to slight streaks on the veins with reticulate white marks 
beyond it before and beyond an oblique white line from vein 6 to 
submedian fold; a curved subterminal series of black points and 
strie from below apex to vein 1. Hind wing yellow; a black 
terminal band suffused with metallic blue and with white streaks 
on the veins, broad towards costa on which it extends to near base 
and narrowing to a point at submedian fold, its inner edge incurved 
at vein 2; the cilia brown at base and white at tips from apex to 
submedian fold. Underside of fore wing black suffused with blue, 
the veins and costa streaked with white, a white discoidal spot, a 
yellow patch at base with irregular outer edge; hind wing with the 
veins on the dark costal and terminal areas prominently streaked 
with white. 
Ab. 1. indica. Fore wing with the blue gloss and white streaks 
on underside slight or almost absent.—Peninusular India. 
Ab, 2. gavanica, Hind wing with the terminal band broader, its 
inner edge evenly curved; abdomen with the dorsal spots very 
small.—-Java. 
Ab. 3. philippinensis. Similar ; fore wing with the portion of the 
medial line in cell reduced to a point, the subterminal spots larger ; 
hind tibize without black spot.—Philippines. 
Hab, Centr. Cuina, Wei-hai-wei (2’. B. Fletcher), 1 ¢ , Foo-chow 
(de la Touche), 1 3, Ichang (Mrs Pratt), 1 g ; W. Cuina, Chang- 
yang, 12, Omei-shan, 1 ¢, 19, Washan (Pratt), 1 ¢ , Chia-kou-ho 
(Pratt), 1 g, Moupin (Aricheldorf), 2 2 ; Gansam; Bomsay, 
Ratnagiri (Jayaker), 13; Mapras, 1 ¢, 3 9, Calicut (Fellows- 
Wulson), 1 3 , Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 5,1 9; Travancore, Trivandrum 
(Yergusson), 19; Penance, 1 2; Puitirpines, Mindoro; Java. Lap. 
62-34 millim. 
*6636. Eligma orthoxantha. (Plate CLNXXIILI. fig. 26.) 
Eligma orthoxantha, Lower, Tr, R. Soe. 8. Austr. xxvii. p. 27 (1908). 
Q@. Head and thorax drab; palpi with the 2nd joint yellow with 
black point at extremity, the 3rd joint white with black point at 
base and band near extremity; vertex of head, tegule on inner and 
outer sides, patagia and meso- and metathorax with paired black 
points ; pectus and legs orange, the tibize with black points; ab- 
domen orange with dorsal and lateral series of small black spots. 
Fore wing drab with five small black spots in a semicircle at base ; 
antemedial small black spots on costa, below cell and above inner 
margin and with black spots beyond them in and below cell, 
followed by a white band with dentate outer edge from costa to 
median nervure with a dentate line from it to vein 1; a series of 
small black spots from middle of costa, almost parallel to costa to 
well beyond middle on vein 7, oblique to vein 4, then bent inwards 
to near origin of vein 2, then as an interrupted line angled outwards 
