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ARCTUD-i:. 



Ab. 2. directa. Foro wing with the lower black patch bar- 

 shaped ; thorax grey or with black stripe. 



Fore wing with veins 3, 4 sliortly stalked or from cell ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 6 and 7 from a point 

 at end of areole or shortly stalked ; 11 anastomosing with 12. 



Uah. N. Cjii.va {Fortune), 2 $, type. Ecp. 39-42 millim. 

 Type t directa in Cull. Leech. 



C-. {Zadadra). Hind wing of male witli large patch of androeonia 

 below medial part of costa ; fore wing with the inner margin 

 highly arched and fringed with hair towards base. 



2G8. Ilema distovta. 



Lithosia distorta, iloore, P. Z. S. 1872. p. 572 ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, pi. ii. 

 f. 15 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 77 ; Xirby, Cat. Het. p. 319. 



S . Head blackish, the vertex dull orange ; thorax and abdomen 

 grey, the ventral surface and anal tuft orange. Fore wing fuscous 



grey ; the costal area ochre- 

 ous sufi'used with fulvous, 

 Avith a round black spot 

 beyond middle, with an 

 obscure ol)liqnely - curved 

 fu5Covis band from it to 

 inner margin ; the inner 

 margin narrowly ochreous. 

 Hind wing pale yellow, 

 tinged with fuscous towards 



Fig. 8Q.—Tlema distorta, cj". \. 

 (From Moths Ind. a-oI. ii.) 



apex ; the patch of androeonia fuscous. 



5 . Fore wins with the interspaces of outer half obscurely streaked 

 with ochreous ; the costal fascia j'ellowish wliitc and the spot more 

 triangular. 



Ab. 1. cJ . Fore wing without the black spot on costa. — Nepal. 



Ab. 2. 2 • Fore wing without the ochreous streaks in inter- 

 spaces. — Pulo Laut. 



Fore wing with vein 2 in male from well beyond middle of cell ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; G and 7 from 

 areole ; 11 free, in male from near end of cell. 



Hah. li(v.v\L(Hardiviche), 1 c? ; Sikhim (Lidderdale), 1 S ; Assam, 

 Khiisis, Moore Coll., 2 c? , 1 $ type, Naga Hills; Pulo Laut 

 {Dohertii), 1 $ . Exp. 34-42 miUim. 



d-. {Prahhasa). Hind wing of male without 

 secondary sexual characters, 

 a''. Fore wing with large quadrate postmedial 



black patch from cell to inner margin ... tefragona, 

 P. Fore wing without postmedial black mark 

 below the cell. 

 a\ Fore wing with postmedial black spot on 

 costa. 

 a'. Hind wing fuscous brown. 



a". Fore wing dark brown, with pro- 

 minent pale costal fascia flavicosta. 



6". Fore wing paler brown, with indi- 

 stinct costal fa.scia venosa. 



