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with indistinct waved antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines and 

 submarginal band ; a large indistinct reniform spot. Abdomen 



Fig. 12. Avitta subsignans, $ . -. 



and hind wing dark fuscous. Underside whitish, with prominent 

 black cell-spot and curved postmedial line to each wing. 



Hab. Khasis ; W. and S. India ; Ceylon ; Andamans. Exp. 40- 

 44 millim. 



2786. Avitta nififrons, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 554, pi. 215, fiX 2 ; 



C\ $ S. no. 3012. 



Differs from subsignans in having the head and collar bright 

 fulvous ; the fore wing rather redder brown. 



Hab. Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; E. Pegu. Exp. 46 millim. 



2787. Avitta quadrilinea, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vii, p. 171 ; C.$ S. 



no. 3044. 



Bocana quadrilinealis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 88; C. fy S. 

 no. 3004. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing purplish grey-brown ; the last 

 crossed by four oblique red-brown lines ; an indistinct submarginal 

 dentate line ; a marginal red-brown line. Abdomen and hind wing 

 dark fuscous brown. Underside with small cell-spot and curved 

 postmedial line to each wing. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Nilgiris ; Borneo ; Gilolo. Exp. 45-48 

 millim. 



Genus DIERNA. 



Dierna, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 204 (1858). 

 Nahara, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1004 (1865). 

 Iluza, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1006. 



Type, D. acanthusalis, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; Khasis ; throughout Peninsular India, Ceylon, 

 and Burma. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint upcurved, slender, and reaching above 

 vertex of head, the 3rd long and acute; thorax and abdomen 

 smoothly scaled and slender. Tore wing with the apex acute. 

 Hind wing with the inner margin short ; the outer margin angled 

 at vein 2 ; vein 5 from near lower angle of cell. 



