^.GILIA.— ATHYRMA. 105 



iEgilia describens, Jl'll-. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 11.) 

 ^gilia describens, Wlk. Cat. xiii. p. 11 HO. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dull dark brown ; a pale patch on vertex of thorax. Fore 

 wing dull brown with a purplish tinge; numerous waved indistinct rufous lines, which are 

 bent below the costa and then run almost longitudinally to the base of the wing ; a pale sub- 

 marginal waved line. Hind wing smoky brown ; a patch of semihyaline bluish membrane 

 below the median uervure and in the interspaces between the median nervules. 



Birtha insulata, lllk. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 8.) 



Birtha insulata, IVIJ,:. Cat. xxxiii. p. 970. 



Expanse c? I3 inch. 



Male. Head and collar bright chestnut ; thorax and abdomen pale fuscous. Fore wing 

 pale with a slight purplish tinge; a chestnut antemedial baud with pale edges, becoming very 

 broad below the median uervure, and enclosing a spot of the ground-coloiu- on inner margin ; 

 a dark spot in the middle of the cell ; reniform filled in with chestnut, and with a paler 

 chestnut patch on the costa above it ; a postmedial brown line jjroduced to an angle on the 

 second median nervule, then recurved to the lower angle of cell and straight to centre of 

 inner margin ; some pale patches beyond it ; a large chestnut patuli on the costa before the 

 apex ; a marginal dark line. Hiud wing fuscous, with a darker marginal line. 



Athyrma aurotincta. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 10.) 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Female. Head and thorax grey, speckled with brown ; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey, 

 speckled with brown, with a large golden-brown subtriangular patch from the costa before the 

 middle to the apex reaching to the submedian ncrvure, and broken by a band of the ground- 

 colour, which includes the lai'ge reniform spot ; the inner edge of the golden-brown patch is 

 white and the outer edge bordered by brown ; a marginal scries of dark specks. Iliud wing 

 fuscous. 



Athyrma divulsa, IVlk. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 4.) 

 Athvrma divulsa, WJI-. Cat. xxxiii. p. 900. 



Expanse c? I5 inch. 



Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale fuscous; collar with a black band. F'ore wing 

 pale fuscous; a black basal speck ; a highly irregular antemedial black band with pale edges, 

 the costal half almost obsolete, the inner half oblique and widest at middle; a black spot in 

 the cell; a pale irregular line from the apex to second median nervule, then recurved 



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