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thorax fuscous mixed with red-brown and white, the patagia with green 

 fascia ; fore tibiae brown mixed with green, the tarsi with pale rings ; ab- 

 domen grey-brown, the dorsal crests and anal tuft tinged w T ith rufous. 

 Fore wing olive-green irrorated with black, the veins and postmedial area 

 purplish-grey, the costa black ; subbasal line waved, from costa to a black 

 and white spot above vein 1 ; antemedial line defined on innerside by 

 purplish-grey, oblique, minutely waved ; claviform absent ; orbicular and 

 reniform with black, irrorated brown centres and green annlee, the former 

 elliptical, the latter large, constricted at middle, an oblique purplish- white 

 patch between them from subcostal nervure to submedian fold ; postmedial 

 line double at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line green, expanding into a band on innerside below vein 3 and with 

 green streaks from it to termen between veins 7 and 2, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, excurved at middle and strongly incurved in submedian inter 

 space ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia green mixed with 

 black. Hindwing with the basal half yellowish-white, the terminal half 

 fuscous, the inner area suffused with brown ; cilia yellowish-white with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with black, a discoidal spot and sometimes a streak in cell, the termen 

 grey. 



ab.l. liccia, Hindwing with the basal area more or less tinged with 

 brown. 



Habitat. — Japan ; Corea ; W. China ; Kashmir, Scinde Valley ; Punjab, 

 Kulu, Sultanpur, Dharmsala, Hurripur ; Sikhim ; Madras, Nilgiris ; 

 Travancore, Pirmad ; Ceylon. Exp. 48-54 mill. 

 17346. Trachea ohlorogrammata. 

 1716. Trachea opposita. 

 1713«. Trachea constjmmata. 



Hadena consummata, Wlk., XL, 591 (1857). 



confundens, Wlk., XL, 757 (1857) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl., Ill, 

 p. 38, pi. 148, f . 3. 

 Mamestra thoracica, Wlk., XV, 1684 (1858). 

 Hadena ine.rtricata, Wlk., XV, 1729 (1858). 

 Apamea neurostif/ma, Snell. Tijd. O. Ent. XXIII, p. 46, pi. 4, f. 4, 



(1880). 

 Hadena tulipifera, Saalm. Lep. Madag., p. 321, pi. xi, f. 195, 

 (1891). 

 Head and thorax bright rufous with some black and whitish scales ; palpi 

 black above ; frons with lateral black bars ; tarsi black ringed with rufous ; 

 abdomen rufous. Forewing bright rufous slightly suffused with brown and 

 irrorated with black ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique towards inner margin ; 

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