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black points ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with a 

 few black scales except towards base, the subterminal patch emittino- 

 teeth on the veins to termen, a terminal series of small black 

 lunules from apex to vein 2. 



5 . Hind wing- with the brown subterminal band entire, narrow- 

 ing to tornus. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri, 2 c? ; W. China, Moupin {KricJieldorf\ 

 1 S ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanjjur {O. Toi:ng), 1 $ , Simla (Hen-ford), 

 1 c?, Murree (Harford), 1 ($ , Dharmsala (Hoclcing), 4 2 type 

 sphiidens ; Sikhim. ^.17:). 32-40 millim. 



3594. Canna pulchripicta. 



Canora pulchripicta, Wlk. sxxiii. 790 (ISfif)) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 61, 

 pi. 6. f. 10 ; limpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 293. 



S . Head and tegulse bright apple-green, the latter edged with 

 white ; palpi red-brown ; frons with red-brown marks at sides ; 

 antennae red-brown ; thorax bright rufous, blackish behind, the pro- 

 thorax with white patch ; pectus whitish ; legs rufous, with green 

 patches on fore tibiae ; abdomen whitish, tinged with rufous. Fore 

 wing bright emerald-green ; a rufous band from base of costa ex- 

 tending as a fascia along inner margin to beyond middle, where it 



Fig. 2. — Canna pulchripicta, (^ . \. 



ends in a point ; a medial rufous band very oblique from costa to 

 vein 2, then bent inwards to the fascia on inner margin, these rufous 

 markings defined by fine white lines ; a faint oblique darker green 

 fascia from costa just before apex to the angle of medial band ; a 

 terminal white band from apex to vein 5, its lower part tinged with 

 rufous ; a rufous lunule slightly edged v/ith white on termen in sub- 

 median interspace ; cilia rufous, white at apex. Hind wing white, 

 the terminal area tinged with brown from apex to vein 4, some 

 slight black points on termen towards apex ; cilia tinged with 

 rufous ; the underside with the costal area tinged with rufous. 



Hah. Sikhim (Eussell, Atkinson, Dudgeon), 8 cJ type. Exj). 34- 

 36 millim. 



