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3892. Acroriodes diplolopha. 



Acroriodes diplolopha, Druce, A.M.N.H. (8) i. p. 303 (1008). 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed -with some chestnut- 

 brown ; palpi and vertex of head deep chestnut-brown ; tegulaj 

 black at base and with two slight medial lines ; metathoracie crest 

 blackish ; tarsi brown ringed with yellowish white ; abdomen 

 ochreous, the crests rufous, black at tips, the terminal segments 

 with dorsal and lateral black spots. Fore wing deep rufous to 

 postmedial line, the veins with slight pale streaks, the terminal 

 area greyish ochreous with blackish patch on costa running 

 obliquely from apex, with black streaks on it on the veins and 

 in interspaces ; subbasal line very faint, dentate, from costa to 

 submediau fold, with a black point beyond it in cell ; anteraedial 

 line indistinct, double, rufous filled in with ochreous, very strongly 

 dentate, bent inwards to inner margin towards which it is defined 

 by black on inner side and with slight black streak beyond it on 

 the margin ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform with 

 ochreous white annulus, narrow, constricted at middle and angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line double, blackish 

 filled in with greyish and with ochreous below vein 2, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to black points 

 on the veins, doubly angled inwards at discal fold and oblique 



Fig. 76. — Acroriodes diplolopha, S • t- 



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

 line ochreous with minute black streaks before it at middle, very 

 minutely dentate towards costa ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia 

 greyish mixed with rufous and with waved whitish line at middle 

 and blackish points at tips. Hind wing yellowish Avhite, the 

 terminal area broadly black-brown to submedian fold, the tornal 

 area tinged with rufous and with three small black spots towards 

 extremity of vein 1 and on cilia ; a small blackish discoidal lunule ; 

 postmedial line oblique to vein 4, then sinuous ; a fine red-brown 

 terminal line ; cilia reddish ochreous with slight dark spot at 

 extremity of vein 2 ; the underside yellowish white, the costal 

 area slightly tinged with rulbus and irrorated with black, the 

 terminal area suft'used with black except at tornus, a diffused dark 

 bar from middle of costa, black discoidal spot, minutely dentate 

 postmedial line, and terminal series of black points from apex to 

 vein 2 defined by ochreous white lunules. 



