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chestnut subbasal line ; antemedial, medial, and postmedial curved 



lines which approach each other at inner margin, the first angled 



below the cell, the second on median 

 nervure ; orbicular and reniform stig- 

 mata outlined with chestnut ; the 

 area beyond the postmedial line suf- 

 fused with vinous ; a lunulate sub- 

 marginal line. Abdomen and hind 

 wing ochreous, the latter with a 

 fuscous lunule at end of cell and 



Fig. 112. Pyrrhiaumbra, <f. f broad marginal band; the margin 



rufous. Underside with cell-spot 



on each wing, that on fore wing large ; a postmedial line with 



fuscous and rufous beyond it. 



Hob. Europe ; Amur ; Japan ; N.W. Himalayas ; Nagas. 



Exp. 40 millim. 



SECT. II. Male with antennae fasciculated ; eyes with lashes. 



1599. Pyrrhia cuprea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 50, pi. 6, fig. 8-, C.$S. 

 no. 2149. 



(5 1 . Head and thorax purplish red-brown ; abdomen fuscous, 

 the extremity fulvous. Fore wing orange, suffused with purplish 

 red -brown ; indistinct double-waved subbasal and antemedial red 

 lines ; the orbicular and reniform orange irrorated and outlined 

 with red ; the claviform with red outline ; the postmedial line 

 dark and slightly curved ; a submarginal dentate yellow line. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area paler ; cilia rufous. 

 Underside rufous, with traces of a postmedial line to both 

 wings. 



One hind tibia has a single spine in accordance with its Heliothid 

 affinities. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus ADISURA. 

 Adisura, Moore t P. Z. S. 1881, p. 367. 



Type, A. atkinsoni, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim, Assam Hills, and throughout Peninsular India 

 and Ceylon. 



Differs from Pyrrliia in having the mid and hind tibia3 sparsely 

 spined ; thorax without the sharp crest. 



1600. Adisura atkinsoni, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 368, pi. 37, fig. 6 ; 



C. $ S. no. 1745. 

 Adisura leucanioides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 368 ; C. fy S. 



no. 1747. 

 Adisura pallida, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 369 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 150, fig. 8 ; (?.$& no. 1749. 



