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on outer side by white at costa, then by pink, angled outwards below 

 costa, then excurved, an oblique pinkish striga before it from submedian 

 fold to vein 1 ; claviform represented by an oblique pinkish streak, acute 

 and defined by black at extremity : orbicular with rufous centre and 

 yellowish annulus defined by black, very narrow and oblique ; reniform 

 white slightly defined by black, its centre ochreous defined by red-brown, 

 produced at upper extremity, and at lower extremity to a hook : a faint 

 oblique black shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 double, black, the inner line strong, the outer slight, filled in with pink, 

 angled inwards below costa, then bent outwards slightly incurved at discal 

 fold, incurved below vein 3, some white points beyond it on costa; subtermi- 

 nal line yellowish white, oblique to vein 7, where it is met by an oblique 

 yellowish white shade from apex, with oblique bar above vein 6, angled 

 inwards to postmedial line above vein 5, then outwards to termen at vein 4, 

 then slight, oblique to submedian fold and bent outwards to tornus ; a 

 yellowish white line before termen angled outwards at vein 4, then 

 waved; cilia chequered white and black with a slight blackish line at base. 

 Hindwing yellowish white, suffused with fuscous brown except on costal 

 area ; a slight dark discoidal bar, pale postmedial line, and terminal series 

 of dark lunules defined by whitish on inner side ; cilia chequered brown 

 and white ; the underside white, the costal area tinged with ochreous and 

 slightly irrorated with brown, the apical area tinged with pink, a black 

 striga on upper discocellular, brown postmedial line bent outwards below 

 costa, then slightly waved, incurved below vein 3, subterminal shade from 

 costa to vein 5, and terminal series of small brown lunules. 



ab. 1. obscura. — Head, thorax and forewing browner and less rufous, 

 with hardly any pink tinge. 



Habitat. — Europe ; Armenia ; Asia Minor ; Persia : E. Siberia ; 

 Japan ; Corea ; Central China ; W. China ; Assam, Khasis. Exp, 34-40 

 mill. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt, and Moths Eur., p. 248. Hfi'nin. Kaup., p. 100, pi. 

 28, f. 5. 



Green with oblique yellow subdorsal stripes often defined by pink ; 

 lateral line yellow often defined by pink below ; warts slight, yellow ; 

 head reddish. Food plant : Pteris aquilina. 8-6. 



b ' . Antenme of male ciliated beyond the angular pro- 

 jection ; tibise, 1st joint of tarsi, and inner spur 

 of mid tibiae fringed with long hair. 

 a' 1 . Forewing with orange apical patch . . . . .vantkopera . 



b-. Forewing without orange apical patch . . rivularis 



1843«. Eriopus xanxhopera. 



Eriopux xanth opera, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal.B. M. vii., p. .540, pi. 121, f. 1 

 (1908). 



