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3887. Antha grata. 



Leptina grata, Butl. Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1881, p. 172 ; Hiiipsn. Moths Ind, 



li. p. 237; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 183. 

 Antha pretiosa, Staud. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 448, pi. 7. f. 6(1892). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with whitish ; palpi white in 

 front, red-brown at sides ; tegulse brownish with white band and 

 rufous tips; dorsum of thorax red-brown; pectus whitish mixed 

 with browu, the tarsi dark ringed with white ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with brown, the dorsal crests dark. Fore wing ochreous 

 tinged with rufous, some pale pink suffusion in submedian inter- 

 space and below base of costa ; a black-brown fascia on inner 

 margin from near base ; subbasal lino represented by two slight 

 oblieiue striaj from costa, the antemedial line by an oblique striga 

 from costa, then by some points, a faint tooth in submedian interspace 

 and a very elongate tooth above inner margin defined by white on 



Fig. 74. — Aiitlia grata, S ■ \- 



inner side ; claviform very faintly defined by brown, narrow, acute 

 at extremity ; orbicular and reniform with pale pink annuli, the former 

 with rufous centre, elongate, narrow, and slightly oblique, the latter 

 constricted at middle, with pink centre defined by an irregular 

 rufous line ; a blackish patch on middle of costa ; postmedial line 

 dark brown defined on outer side by pinkish white on costa and 

 below middle, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points bevond it on 

 costa ; a curved diffused pinkish subterminal band, slightly defined 

 by red-brown on inner side except towards inner margin and crossed 

 by dark streaks towards apex ; the terminal area dark red-brown 

 with blackish spots and a fine white line before the dark terminal 

 line, the extremity of vein 1 defined by fine white streaks with 

 black streaks above and below them and a white bar from their 

 inner extremity to inner margin ; cilia whitish with a waved dark 

 line through them. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with brown 

 especially on terminal area, a series of white striae just before 

 termen ; cilia ochreous with a slight brown line through them ; the 

 \inderside with the costal and terminal areas broadly irrorated with 

 brown, the former tinged with red, a small discoidal lunule and 

 indistinct waved sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Tokio {Marieii), 2 $ type, 

 Oiwake (Pryer), 2 J, 4 $; Corea, Gensan (Leech), l' d ; 

 W. China, Kwei-chow, 1 $ ; Assam, Naga Hills. Exp. 36-44 

 millim. 



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