PTYO^OTA. TORTEICIFOEMA. 



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form the areole, which is long. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 

 stalked. 



2341. Ptyonota formosa, n. sp. 



. Head rufous ; collar black-brown ; thorax grey ; an ochre- 

 ous and rufous patch on metathorax ; abdomen reddish brown, 

 with the basal tuft pure white. Eore wing grey, with a rufous 

 subbasal band ; a sinuous antemedial rufous and grey line, with a 

 large red patch inside it from median nervure to inner margin ; a 



Fig. 239. Ptyonota formosa, 



black speck in cell, and lunule on orange spot at end of it ; the 

 postmedial area red, with an irregularly waved postmedial dark line 

 on it, and similar submarginal line. Hind wing pale, suffused with 

 red. 



Hob. Tenasserim Valley (Doherty). Exp. 34 millim. Type in 

 coll. Druce. 



G-enus TORTEJCIFORMA, nov. 



Type, T. viridipuncta, Hmpsn. 



Range. Sikhim. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned and smoothly scaled, 

 the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd long. Fore wing 

 with the costa arched at base and excised before the apex ; the 

 outer margin excised from the apex to vein 6, where it is produced 

 to an angle and again excurved between veins 4 and 2 ; veins 6 

 and 7 from cell ; 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 

 stalked ; 5 from near lower angle of cell ; 6 and 7 from upper 

 angle ; the costa slightly excised. 



2342. Tortriciforma viridipuncta, n. sp. 



$ . Pale reddish. Fore wing 

 slightly irrorated with black scales ; 

 a large bright green spot on costa 

 near base, and a comma-shaped 

 spot from costa to upper angle of 

 cell; a black speck on discocellulars. 

 Hind wing orange-red ; underside 

 i with ferruginous spot at end of 

 cell, and two waved lines beyond it. 

 Hob. Sikhim (Knyvett). Exp. 28 millim. Type in coll. Knyvett. 



Fig. 240. 

 Tortriciforma viridipuncta, 



