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punctata, with the exception that the antennas are ciliate, not pectinate. 

 These should probably be referred to Nosytnna, Wkr. 



SAPHTHA, Wkr. 

 SAPHTHA, Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. BM. XXX. 1015 (1864). 



3675. Saphtha elegans, Wlsm. sp. n. 



Antenna ciliate, thickly clothed to nearly three-fourths ; purple. Palpi 

 porrect, reaching the length of the head beyond it ; brownish externally, 

 whitish beneath and on their inner sides. Head brown ; face metallic 

 green. Thorax olive-brown, with three longitudinal bright metallic green 

 streaks, one median and one on each side along the inner edge of the 

 tegulae. Forewings olive-brown on the basal half, which contains four 

 bright metallic green streaks ; one from the base immediately below the 

 costa, one from the middle of the base pointing to the middle of the 

 termen, one from the base below the fold, shorter and parallel with 

 the dorsum ; the fourth is transverse, reaching from the costa to the 

 dorsum before the middle of the wing, with a slight break or indentation 

 on the fold the longitudinal streaks do not reach so far as the transverse 

 streak, but leave before it a space about equal to the extension of the 

 olive-brown colouring beyond it ; at the middle of the wing the olive- 

 brown colouring becomes suffused with bright iridescent cupreous purple 

 lustre, continued to the apex and termen, the ground-colour showing only 

 along the extreme margin and in a few irregular patches about the apical 

 portion of the wing ; cilia olive-brown at their base, iridescent steely-grey 

 on their outer half. Exp. al. 14 mm. Hindivings white along the costa 

 and in a large semi-transparent patch extending from the middle to the 

 limbus, this has an iridescent rosy purple hue ; the apex and outer 

 border of 'the wing to the flexus with a broad brown band which is 

 produced inwards towards the base along the upper margin of the cell ; 

 cilia white. Abdomen brownish, the somites marked with iridescent 

 steel-grey bands. Legs : hind tibiae brown, the tarsi white, banded and 

 spotted above with brown. 



Type <J. Mus. Wlsm. 



Nab. INDIA [Bekpur 24-25, VI 1. 1 886 (Minchin), Ganjam (Minchiri), 

 ANDAMAN Is. Mus. Wlsm.] 



Mus. OXF. Two specimens, INDIA Barrackpore, 9, VII. 1886, 14, 

 VII. 1886 (Minchtn). [Wlsm. Det. 53-54 (1893).] 



Neuration : forewings 12 veins ; I furcate at base ; 2 from middle third 

 of cell, running nearly parallel with the dorsum and curving upward to 

 a point below the middle of the termen ; the upper part of the cell recedes 

 and the apical veins, which are all separate, are very long ; hindwings 

 8 veins ; the lower portion of the cell produced nearly to the margin, 

 veins 2, 3 and 4 being very short ; 3 and 4 from a short stalk ; 6 and 7 

 separate and parallel ; 8 free. 



