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except at tips ; frons and vertex of head with black-brown bars ; 

 tegiilse with black lines at middle and near tips; patagia with black 

 streak near upper edge ; mid and hind tibiae with black streaks, 

 the fore tarsi blackish at extremity ; abdomen grey tinged with 

 brown, the crests brownish at tips. Fore wing grey tinged with 

 brown, the veins streaked with black ; a short black streak below 

 base of costa Avith another beyond it in cell and a very oblique 

 striga from median nervure to submedian fold in which there is a 

 black streak from base to middle, forming a dentate mark at 

 extremity enclosing a whitish mark representing the claviform ; 

 antemedial line represented by an oblique striga from costa and a 

 line from extremity of claviform angled outwards in submedian fold 

 and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1, a short dark streak 

 beyond the claviform ; orbicular defined by blackish, elongate, acute 

 at extremity and touching the reuiform, which is a narrow pale 

 lunule defined by blackish ; postmedial line almost obsolete and 

 whitish from costa to vein 2, strongly bent outwards below costa 

 and excurved to vein 4, below vein 2 represented by a slight brown 

 line defined by whitish on outer side, angled inwards in submedian 

 fold to the antemedial line and outwards on vein 1 ; an arched 

 black streak from lower extremity of reniform to near termen and 

 a short streak above middle of vein 3 ; the terminal area with 

 triangular brown patch from below apex to vein 4 extending to 

 postmedial line, and rather wedge-shaped patch between vein 3 and 

 submedian fold ; the interspaces of terminal area with black streaks 

 extending on the brown patches to postmedial line, the streak above 

 vein 3 rather downcurved ; cilia brown intersected with whitish 

 at the veins. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins, 

 inner and terminal areas suffused with brown ; cilia white ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and postmedial series of shon 

 dark streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Punjab, 2 S type, Kulu, Sultanpur {G. Young), 4 $ , Simla 

 (Sivinhoe), 1 J » 1 2 j Kasauli, 1 S , Dalhousie, 1 d* , Thundiani 

 {Yerhury). 1 $, Kangra {Dudgeon), 1 S, Dharmsala {HocJcing), 

 6 d" , 2 $ , Manpuri, 1 d • E^rj^. 46-50 millim. 



3805. Delta peterseni. 



Ehizoqrmnma peterseni, Christ. Eoin. Mem. iii. p. 76, pi. iv. f. 3 (1887) ; 

 Huipsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B.M. t. p. 14 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 183. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulse brown at tips ; 

 abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey irrorated 

 with reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by brown striae 

 from costa and median nervure ; a black streak with slight brown 

 suffusion below it below the cell from base to the antemedial line, 

 which is indistinct and angled outwards in submedian fold and 

 above inner margin ; claviform defined by a slight brown line above ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, defined by brown, the former oblique 

 elliptical; postmedial line unusually near termen, very minutely 



