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extremity of median nervure, discocellulars and bases of veins 3, 
4 pale flesh-colour; the postmedial area with slight pale V-shaped 
marks between veins 7 and 3 with some black irroration beyond 
them, and an oblique elliptical silvery white spot defined by red 
below costa with two small spots and one below them beyond it 
followed by a subapical spot, with small V-shaped mark below it ; 
subterminal white points between veins 5 and 2 with a tine dentate 
line before them; cilia yellow intersected with red-brown at discal 
fold and red-brown at tornus. Hind wing yellow, the termen red- 
brown from apex to vein 2; the underside pale yellow. 
Ab. 1. Hind wing entirely suffused with red-brown above.— 
Nilgiris. 
©. Hind wing with the basal and costal areas whitish and with 
more rufous suffusion on terminal area. 
Hab. “Invta” (Mrs. Hamilton), 1 6, 1:9 type;--SreH1u 
(Dudgeon), 1 9; Bonsay (Leith, Jackson), 3 $, Khandala 
(Swinhoe), | 9; Mapras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 g. Hvp. 26 
millim. 
Sucr. II, Abdomen of male with the lateral fans of scales much smaller with 
a tuft of long hair from below them ; hind wing with the termen 
much less excised below vein 2 and without fringes of hair on 
upper side. 
6820. Gabala argentata. 
Gabala argentata, Butl. Ill. Het. B.M. ii. p. 56, pl. 39. f. 3 (1878). 
Head and thorax bright rufous, the vertex of head with silvery 
white patch defined by blood-red, the tegule at dorsum and sides, 
the patagia, the pro- and mesothorax with paired silvery white 
spots defined by blood-red; palpi white towards base; pectus and 
legs white, the fore and mid tibie tinged with rufous; abdomen 
white dorsally slightly tinged with rufous, the crests rufous. 
Fig. 171.—Gabala argentata, g. }. 
Fore wing bright rufous ; the basal area with numerous silvery white 
spots defined by blood-red, with larger subbasal spots below costa 
and cell and antemedial spots on and below costa, in and below cell 
and above inner margin, the spot below the cell produced above to 
an angled mark before the spot in cell; a pale striga on disco- 
cellulars; traces of a double dark postmedial waved line, arising at 
