526 



extending to the end of cell and getting wider towards inner 

 margin ; the dark suffusion beyond the reniform slight. 

 Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 44-48 uiillim. 



SECT. II. (Cauninda). Male with the mid and hind tibiae 

 clothed with long hair. 



2573. Remigia archesia, Crim. Pap. Exot. iii, pi. 273, F, G ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 172. figs. 3, 3 a (larva) ; C. 8f S. no. 2697. 

 Phalaena virbia. Cram. Pap. Exot. iii, pi. 273, H. 

 Remigia gregalis, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 320 j C. fy S. no. 2703. 

 Remigia pellita, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 319. 

 Reinigia jugalis, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1505. 

 Remigia mutuata, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1505. 

 Hypaetra defundens, Wlk. at. xxxiii, p. 963. 

 Remigia associata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1010. 

 Remigia inconsisa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1013. 

 Remigia bifasciata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1014. 

 Ophiusa mayeri, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag., L6p. p. 104. 



Pale red-brown ; abdomen pale fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. 

 Fore wing with a short subbasal red-brown line ; an oblique ante- 

 medial pale or ochreous line, with diffused red-brown band on 

 its outer edge; a sinuous medial line angled on median nervure ; 

 the reniform large and indistinct ; a red-brown diffused postmedial 

 band, on which is a dark line slightly excurved beyond the cell, 



Fig. 293. Remigia archesia, tf . 



and at vein 2 very irregularly recurved to lower angle of cell, 

 then descending to inner margin ; an indistinct pale waved sub- 

 marginal line, with a series of black specks on it ; a dark waved 

 marginal line. Hind wing ochreous fuscous, with narrow fuscous 

 medial band and diffused submarginal band. Legs rufous. 



Some specimens have a black spot on the fore wing above the 

 inner margin before the middle ; the variety gregalis is duller in 

 colour, with the markings of the fore wing obsolescent. 



Larva purplish brown speckled with black ; the lateral area 

 yellowish with red lines ; a sublateral row of small black dots ; 

 head with a brown and red lateral streak. Food-plant, Desmodiam. 

 Pupa efflorescent. 



Hal. Ethiopian and Oriental regions ; N. China. Exp. 42-54 

 millim. 



