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middle, whence it turns obliquely upwards and crosses the wing to the costa near apex ; this 

 band is lilacine grey from the base to the elbow, from which iDoint it becomes pale brown 

 externally; it is bordered on each side throughout and intersected by blackish lines : secon- 

 daries clear ochreous : head pale brown, palpi testaceous ; collar green ; thorax and teguhe 

 blackish brown ; abdomen dull ochraceous. Under surface clear ochreous ; all the wings with 

 a black spot at the end of the cell and a brownish oblique streak across the disk ; femora and 

 tibiae of anterior legs clothed with dark brown hairs. Expanse of wings 69 millim. 

 Darjiling (Parry 6; Lidderdale) . 



OK^SIA, Guen. 



Oraesia emarginata. (Plate CVII. fig. 4.) 



Noctua emarginata, Fabriehts, Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 240 (1793). 

 Oraesia emarginata, Guenee, Nod', ii. p. 303. n. 1203 (1852). 

 Ora?sia tentans, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ilet. xii. p. 045. n. 7 (1S57). 



Primaries above rosy flesh-coloured ; the costal border crossed by numerous olivaceous 

 lunules, from some of which ferruginous and sinuated lines run across the wing j internal area 

 and basal half of median interspaces suffused with steel-grey ; a triangular patch of mahogany- 

 brown below the median vein ; three dark brown convergent lines from the sinuation of the 

 inner margin to apex, the central line straight, bounded externally by a silvery streak, the two 

 others irregularly undulated; the centre of the first median interspace (enclosed by the above- 

 mentioned lines) mahogany-brown ; the outermost of the three lines bounded externally by a 

 tapering golden ferruginous band commencing at external angle and intersected by an 

 undulated brown line ; a cuneiform mahogany-brown patch on upper half of outer margin ; 

 fringe pale stramineous, indistinctly spotted with grey-brown : secondaries pale smoky brown. 

 paler and sericeous on costa, with the veins and external border darker; fringe pale 

 st ramineous. Head and palpi ochreous, banded with vermilion ; collar of the same colours, but 

 with a lilacine greyish posterior border ; thorax pale brown, suffused with lilac ; abdomen 

 smoky brown ; primaries greyish, with the costal border and a diffused submarginal band 

 more or less reddish buff-coloured ; base whitish ; a transverse dusky line crossing the costal 

 border near apex : secondaries pale creamy buff; a discocellular lunule and a broad abbreviated 

 submarginal band grey ; pectus whitish ; venter pale salmon-red. Expanse of wings 40— 13 

 millim. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale) ; Silhet (Stainsforth) ; Punjab, South India, Ceylon, Shanghai. 



'1 lie type of O. tentans is only a brightly coloured specimen of O. emaryinata ; in form, 

 pattern, and size it exactly corresponds with that species. 



