GUNDA. THEOPHILA. 



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Fore wing ochreous brown, much suffused with red-brown, espe- 

 cially at inner and outer areas ; two dark spots near base ; a highly 

 curved subbasal line ; two nearly straight medial lines, the outer 

 line met by an oblique streak from the costa across the end of cell ; 

 a waved submarginal line ; a dark mark at apex. Hind wing 

 red-brown, ochreous towards anal angle and outer margin ; two 

 indistinct waved lines ; inner area dark red-brown, suffused with 

 grey ; two dark marks at anal angle. Underside of hind wing 

 with two dark specks in the cell and the lines more distinct. 

 Where thinly scaled the wing-membrane shows highly iridescent 

 colours. 



. Yellow ; the thorax suffused with reddish brown ; the fore 

 wing with reddish brown near inner and outer margins ; hind wing 

 suffused with reddish brown at base and near anal angle; the 

 transverse lines as in male, but less distinct. 



Hob. ISikhim ; Ceylon. Exp., rf 42, $ 62 millim. 



Genus THEOPHILA. 

 Theophila, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 683. 



Type, T. huttoni, Westw. 



Range. N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim ; Bengal and ? Madras. 

 Palpi absent. Fore wing highly excised below the apex ; the 

 outer margin slightly angled ; veins 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked together, 

 7, 8, 9 not much bent downwards. Hind wing with vein 5 from 

 above the middle of the discocellulars ; veins 6 and 7 stalked. 



i 

 42. Theophila huttoni, Weshc. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 26, pi. 12, fig. 4 ; Hutt. / 



Trans. Ent. Soc. 1864-66, pi. 19, fig. 4 (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 1103. ** 

 Bombyx sherwilli, Hutt. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) ii, 1864, p. 324 ; A 



C.$S. no. 1105. 

 Bombyx affinis, Hutt., Geoghegan's Silk in India, App. A, p. 3 ; 



C.8f S. no. 1101. 

 Bombyx bengalensis, Hutt. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) ii, 1864, p. 322, 



pi. 19, fig. 5 (larva) ; C. 8f S. no. 1 102. 



Bombyx religiosse, Heifer, J. A. S. B. vi, p. 41, pi. 6; C. Sf S. 

 no. 1104. 



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Fig. 21. Theophila huttoni, tf. |. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. The outer margin of 

 both wings more or less crenulate. Fore wing grey-brown, 

 obliquely curved antemedial and medial indistinct dark lines : a 



