62 DEEPANULID^. 



Oreta castanea. (Plate CXLI. fig. 7.) 



Expanse l^ inch. 



Female. Castaneous brown, the wings crossed by very numerous indistinct waved lines ; 

 costa of fore wing and outer margins darker. Fore wing with a broad medial band, bent in- 

 wards near the eosta, and occupying one third of the wing, bounded inwardly by an indistinct 

 diflFused line, exteriorly by a narrow dark line with a pale one outside it, with a distinct spot 

 on it at the bend ; the dark and pale lines continued across the hind wing. Underside pale 

 brick-red ; the inner margins and a patch below the apes of fore wing pale ; a dark line on 

 fore wing representing the exterior border of the medial band ; the waved lines more distinct 

 than on upperside. Fore wing with a slight rounded hook at apex. 



Allied to 0. rohmdipex. 



Oreta violacea. (Plate CXLI. fig. 18.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Male. Thorax and abdomen pale violaceous yellow ; antennse and anal tuft yellow ; 

 collar white ; head below and fore legs scarlet. Wings less broad than in O. rohmdipex and 

 O. castanea. Fore wing : basal area oehreous, the rest of wing pale violaceous ; an ochreous 

 band from apex to inner margin two thirds from base ; costa violaceous grey. Hind wing 

 pale violaceous ; anteraedial and postmedial ochreous bands, which are obsolete towards the 

 costa ; an ochreous patch on outer margin. The apical hook long, rather rounded, and white 

 at the tip. Cilia white. Underside paler ; band of fore wing yellow ; a large patch of yellow 

 on disk and outer margin of hind wing. 



Nearest to O. exfensa. 



Somatina lunuliferata, JJ'alk. (Plate CXLII. figs. 1, 5.) 

 Deoetia lunuliferata, Walk. Lep. Met. xxvi. p. 1522. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Male. Ground-colour pinkish brown or olive-brown. Fore wing with an indistinct 

 waved antemedial band, sometimes almost obsolete; a pale lunule jt end of cell on a 

 chestnut or brown patch ; a waved postmedial indistinct baud bent inwards below the cell ; 

 followed by a distinct waved erect blackish line, the area beyond which is greenish olive ; a 

 pale waved submarginal band with dark borders; apical portion of costa reddish. Hind 

 wing with a broad dark medial band, its inner border irregular and bent inwards to include a 

 pale lunule at end of cell, its outer border slightly waved, followed by a greenish-olive band 

 from third median nervule to anal angle, and outwardly bordered by pale lunules. Both 

 wings with dark antecilial line ; cilia red-brown. Underside fuscous, with indistinct waved 

 medial and lunulate postmedial bands; costa of ftre wing suffused with bright rust-red. 

 Head and antennae black. 



Female. Similar to male, but much pinker in colour ; the wings broader ; the antennae 

 simple. 



