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c? . Grey, suffused and irrorated with fuscous and rufous ; frons 

 and thorax reddish brown ; vertex of head and collar whitish. 

 Fore wing with a rufous patch at base ; an obliquely curved ante- 

 medial line angled inwards above vein 1 ; traces of a medial line 

 and spot at end of cell ; a postmedial crenulate line angled at 

 vein 6 ; a rufous patch on apical part of costa; an indistinct pale 

 crenulate sub marginal line. Hind wing with traces of antemedial 

 line ; spot at end of cell : postmedial series of specks and sub- 

 marginal pale line. Underside with a prominent black spot at 

 end of cell of each wing. 



with hardly a trace of rufous. 



Hal. Japan; Sikhim ; Khasis ; Bassein, Burma ; Java. Exp., 

 d 70-80, $ 50-90 millim. 



B. (Buzura). Antennae of male bipectinate with short stiff branches. 



3357. Biston suppressaria, Gmn. Phal i, p. 210. 



Buz ara multipunctaria, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1531 ; C. $ S. no. 3254. 

 Buzura strigaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 416 ; id. Lep. Ceyl iii, 

 pi. 188, figs. 1, 1 , b, c (larva) ; C. # S. no. 3255. 



Grey, irrorated with black ; the head ochreous ; thorax and 

 abdomen with yellow bars. Fore wing with waved yellow ante- 

 medial band ; both wings with irregularly sinuous indistinct yellow 

 medial line excurved beyond cell of fore wing ; an ill-defined post- 

 medial maculate band angled at vein 5 of both wings, with some 

 yellow spots beyond it and often some black suffusion at middle of 

 outer margin of fore wing ; a marginal series of yellow spots. 



Larva dark green, with dark somital bands and slight sublateral 

 line ; the spiracles white ringed with red and with red centres ; 

 tubercle on 1st somite and Jegs purple ; larva of female paler 

 green. Food-plant Cassia auriculata. 



Hub. Japan; Kangra ; Sikhim; Assam; Calcutta; Ceylon. 

 Exp., <S 60-70, $> 74-80 millim. 



3358. Biston varianaria, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 425; C. $ S. 



no. 3255 A. 



Buzura panterinaria, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 454 (nee Brern. fy 

 Grey). 



Differs from suppressaria in the ground-colour being ochreous, 

 thickly covered with purplish-fuscous spots. 



Hab. Mhow; Poona ; N. Canara. Exp., c? 52, $ 80 millim. 



C. (Cusiala). Antennce of male with very short branches, with 

 fasciculated cilia at their ends. 



3359. Biston bengaliaria, Guen. Phal i, p. 210, pi. 4, fig. 2 ; C.tyS. 



no. 3250. 



Amphidasis contectaria, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1529; C. $ S. 

 no. 3252. 



White, suffused with ochreous and irrorated and striated with 



