GADIRTHA. 347 
*6655. Gadirtha cerussata. 
Scolopocneme cerussata, Feld. Reis. Noy. pl. 100. f. 11 (1874). 
Q. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish, the 
patagia purplish grey; palpi with the 2nd joint whitish in front ; 
pectus and legs grey, the fore tibize red-brown and whitish in front, 
the tarsi banded with brown; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing 
purplish grey mixed with whitish, the costal area red-brown 
slightly irrorated with black from near base to apex, extending 
at middle to submedian fold, the terminal area with red-brown 
patches in the interspaces; antemedial line black, oblique and 
slightly augled outwards on subcostal nervure from costa to 
median pnervure, then indistinct, whitish and bent inwards to 
inner margin; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black and 
with tufts of raised black scales in centres, the former round, the 
latter constricted at middle ; postmedial line arising at middle of 
costa, indistinct and strongly bent outwards below costa, then 
double, black and incurved at discal fold, below vein 5 purplish 
grey defined on outer side by white, oblique and waved; some 
black suffusion from subterminal line below costa to the reniform ; 
subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by leaden fuscous 
except towards costa, waved; a terminal series of brown points. 
Hind wing fuscous brown tinged with grey ; cilia grey tinged with 
brown; the underside grey suffused with reddish brown especially 
on terminal area. 
Hab, ?, type fT 2 in Coll. Rothschild. wp, 40 millim. The 
locality is given as “ Asia” but the type is labelled “ Guane.” 
*6656. Gadirtha aroa. (Plate CLXAXXIII. fig. 16.) 
Gadirtha aroa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 199 (1908). 
2. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey; the tarsi 
fuscous with pale rings; abdomen greyish tinged with red-brown, 
the crests darker. Fore wing grey suffused and irrorated with 
red-brown, the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; 
subbasal line blackish, oblique, sinuous, from costa to submedian 
fold; antemedial line double, blackish, oblique from costa to 
‘submedian fold, then inwardly oblique and angled outwards on 
vein 1, a grey patch beyond it in cell and another beyond lower 
angle of cell; reniform dark-brown, ill-defined, its lower extremity 
produced ; medial line slight, dark, from costa to reniform, slightly 
angled outwards below costa; postmedial line double, the outer 
line very indistinct, obliquely excurved and minutely waved from 
costa to vein 4, then curved downwards and bent inwards to lower 
edge of reniform, and dentate to inner margin; subterminal line 
very indistinct, dark, dentate ; a crenulate black terminal line with 
dark streaks beyond it on the cilia. Hind wing yellowish suffused 
with red-brown, the costal and terminal areas darker; cilia 
