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Fore wing with two large yellow triangular spots on the costa. 

 Hind wing with a yellow streak below the cell, curving up to the 

 costa beyond it. Legs yellow. 



Hal. JSilgiris, W. slopes, 3000 feet. Rrp. 22 milliin. 



Fig. 149. Callartona purpurascens, $ . \. 



Genus ARTONA. 



Artona, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 439 (1854). 

 Balatsea, Wlk. Cat. xxxi, p. 110 (1864). 

 Biutha, Wlk. Cat. xxxi, p. 127 (18(54). 

 llhaphidognatha, Feld. Wien. Ent. Man. vi, p. 31 (1862). 



Type, A. discivitta, Wlk. 



Ranc/e. Amur ; China ; Japan ; Himalayas ; South Indian Hills ; 

 Hills; Burma; Perak; Java; Amboinn. 



AnteniUB bipectinated in male, minutely ciliated in female, tin? 

 distal portion slighter. Palpi long and porm-t. Fore wing very 

 narrow, with all the veins from the cell. Hind wing with vein f> 

 from middle of discocellulars, vein 6 absent. Mid and hind tibia3 

 with a terminal pair of minute spurs. 



A. Abdomen with no yellow. 



482. Artona postvitta, Moore, L<y. Art. p. 13; C. $ S. no. 297. 



Dark brown ; hind wing with a broad medial white fascia ; cilia 

 \vhitish ; tarsal joints white. 

 Hal. Bikhim. /;.^>. 20 millim. 



483. Artora postalba, Elwes, P.Z. S. 1890, p. 379, pi. xxxii,fig. 16. 



<5 . Brown. Fore wing with a slight yellow streak from the 

 base ; two medial and two postmedial yellow spots : cilia pale 

 yellow. Hind wing with the disk white ; cilia blackish. 



Hal. Sikhim, 12,000 feet. Eay>. 18 millim. 



B. Abdomen of male black, with yellow segmental lands ; 

 female yellow above. 



484. Artona discivitta, Wlk. Cat. ii. p. 440; C. fy S. no. 293: JButl. 



111. Het. v, pi. 84, fig. 8. 



c? . Dark purplish brown ; head at sides and tegula3 yellow. 

 Fore wing with a yellow streak from base to end of cell ; a spot 



