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wliitisli lino across them and wlutisli tips; pectus and lej^s nifous 

 and whitisli, the tai^si ringed \\4th whitish ; ahdomen ochreous 

 suffusetl with red-hrown, the lateral tufts of male yellowish white, 

 the anal tuft ]>laek-biT)wn. Fore Aving whitish suffused anl 

 irroi-.ited with red-hrown and glossed with golden cupreous, 

 especially on inner medial area and inner half of postmedial area, 

 tlie medial area with a deep chocolate-hrown ])ateh below the cell ; 

 sub1)asal line white defined on inner side below the cell by black and 

 with black patch beyond it, fi'om eosta to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 white defined on each side by red-brown, angled outwards below 

 eosta, strongly bent inwards in cell, oblique antl sinuous below tlie 

 cell ; orbicular defined by white, narrow and oblique ; an oblique 

 silvery-white V-shaped stigma below the cell ; i-enifonn chocolate- 

 brown defined by diirk brown ; postmedial line white defined on 



Fig. 123. — Plit/iometra pcrmissn, ^. 



each side by red-brown, bent outwards below eosta, incurved at 

 discal fold, oblique from vein 4 to submedian fold where it is angled 

 inwards, then excurved, some white points beyond it on eosta and a 

 whitish shade from eosta to vein 4 ; subterminal line blackish 

 brown with a red-brown shade before it from eosta to vein 4 and 

 beyond it towards apex and at middle, excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle and incurved at di.seal and submedian folds ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules defined on inner side by a narrow white 

 band from apex to vein 2 ; cilia whitish and red-brown with a slight 

 waved white line through them. Hind wina; red-brown witli a 

 cupreoxis gloss ; cilia wliite with a red-brown line through them ; 

 the underside white irrorated with red-brown, indistinct sinuous 

 postmedial and subtenninal lines with a brown band between them. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma forming a Y with a short 

 tail. 



Hdh. Bo.MHAY, Kanara {Ward). 2 J ty]ie ; Madras, Xilgiiis 

 (Liiulsni/), 1 J , 1 $ ; Ceylon, Kandy (Fole), 1 $ , Pundalova 

 {Green),! ^. J^j;^. 30-3G millim. 



C. Abdomen of male with exp.iiisile liiteral tufts o\ long liair from near base 

 and towards extreinitj containt-d in folds, the anal tuft.«niall; liind 

 wing with the teruien stronglj excurved at middle, tlie inuer unirgiu 

 friutied with lynjr hair. 



