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troctra papyria, A. and S., Vict. Butt., p. 129, 1893 ; Apaustus 

 Mix, Plctz., Stett. Ent. Zeit., p. 165, 1885.) 



Male and female, 18-24 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and 

 abdomen dark fuscous, palpi beneath yellowish, thorax and 

 abdomen clothed with yellowish hairs, beneath white, abdomen 

 posteriorly sometimes ringed with whitish. Antennae fuscous, 

 spotted with white. Legs whitish. Fore wings elongate, 



triangular, costa faintly sinuate in middle, termen gently 

 bowed, oblique ; dark fuscous, with orange-yellow markings ; a 

 narrow costal streak from base to before middle ; a streak along 

 lower margin of cell, continued right around to posterior ex- 

 tremity, where it becomes dilated and indented on either side, 

 finely attenuated towards base ; a narrow streak along inner 

 margin from base to two-thirds, anteriorly attenuated and 

 edged above throughout by a narrow dark fuscous streak; an 

 oblique transverse row of somewhat quadrate, more or less 

 connected, spots from just beneath costa at two-thirds, and 

 curved round to two-thirds of inner margin, the 2 above middle 

 placed considerably beyond the 3 sub-costal ones ; in the male 

 the lower two-thirds of series of spots become confluent, 

 and appear as a thick streak, which is edged anteriorly by a 

 narrow black stigma throughout; cilia dull whitish-fuscous. 

 Hindwin^s with termen faintly sinuate in middle ; color as in 

 forewings ; basal and inner marginal hairs yellowish ; mark- 

 ings orange ; a narrow elongate in cell near base ; a moderate 

 transverse series of irregularly edged quadrate confluent spots 

 beyond middle of wing, not reaching either margin ; cilia as in 

 forewings. Under side of forewings dark fuscous; costa 

 throughout and upper two-thirds of termen broadly orange 

 yellow; markings of upper side, except stigma, reproduced, 

 becoming whitish-ochreous ; a sub-terminal streak of ligjit fus- 

 cous. Hindwings dark fuscous, irrorated throughout with 

 yellowish scales ; markings of upper side reproduced, but color 

 whitish ; cilia as above. 



Somewhat allied to Lasclvia, Rosen, but immediately dis- 

 tinguished from that species by the markings of under side of 

 hindwings, which in Lasclvia are absent Watson states 

 (P.Z.S., 1893) that this is the only species possessing a stigma 

 in male. This is erroneous, as Flavovittata, Latr., which is 

 allied to Papyria, has a similar character, and we have two 

 undetermined species of similar structure. The species 

 described by Cox as Celceno undoubtedly refers to a slight 

 variety of the present species, which does vary, but not to any 

 appreciable extent. 



