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is dilated into two large angles in each wing, and along which 

 the surface is blackish ; marginal lunules black; under side with 

 the yellow band more regular, and accompanied by yellow 

 cuneate spots along its exterior border. Fore-wings with an 

 interior broad blackish band, which is dilated into a great 

 angle on the exterior side, and whose disc is partly ferruginous ; 

 it is contiguous to the ocellus, which is black, slightly lined 

 with yellow, is somewhat oblique and narrow, and has on the 

 hind-side its pupil truncated, and its border open. 



" Length of the body, twelve lines ; of the wings, thirty-six 

 lines." 



FAMILY HYPOPYRID^;. 



The species of this Family have rather short and broad, 

 entire wings, with the fore- and hind-wings nearly similarly 

 coloured, brown, grey, or blackish, with distinct lines, and a 

 more or less spiral ocellus on the fore-wings. Most of the species 

 are East Indian, but one or two are African or Australian. 



GENUS SPIRAMIA. 



Spirama^ Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 194 (1852); 



Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 552 (1894). 

 Spiramia, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 1318 



(1858). 



This genus is represented in India, China, Java, &c., by 

 numerous closely allied forms, many of which are regarded by 

 some authors as referable to one or two variable species, a 

 question which cannot be decided with certainty until their 

 metamorphoses have been studied. They vary in colour from 

 pale ochreous to nearly black ; but are easily recognisable by 

 the peculiar spiral form of the ocellus on the fore-wings. 



