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7163. Mormonia dula. 



Cafocala dula, Brera. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 59, pi. 4. f. 14 (1864); Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 248. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey-white and black ; 

 palj)! white in front towards base ; pectus and legs white and 

 i'uscous, the tarsi blackisli ringed with white ; abdomen grej'- 

 brown, the ventral surface whitish suffused with brown towards 

 extremity. Fore wing brown mixed with some white and suffused 

 ill parts with black ; subbasal lino indistinct, blackish, sinuous, 

 from costa to submedian fold; autemedial line indistiuct, double, 

 oblique, sinuous, the outer line angled outwards at submedian fold, 

 a whitish patch beyond it from costa to vein 2 and a whitish patch 

 on inner medial area; leniform with whitish centre defined by 

 brown and incomplete white annulus defined by blackish, its outer 

 edge somewhat dentate, an oblique brown striga above it fi'om 

 costa ; a pure white spot defined by black below end of cell ; traces 

 of an oblique line beyond the cell from vein 6 to submedian fold ; 

 postmediai line double, black, the outer line indistinct, with some 

 white suffusion at costa and filled in with white on inner area, bent 

 outwards below costa, then obliquely downcurved, acutely angled 

 outwards above vein 5, then incurved, slightly excurvod above 

 vein 2 and at submedian fold and angled inwards at vein 1 ; sub- 

 terminal line double, black filled in by some white scales, waved, 

 oblique from cnsta to bidow vein 7 ; a series of black striae before 

 termen defined on outer side by yellowish. Hind wing crimson, 

 th ! basal and inner areas clothed with brown hair: a black medial 

 band, angled outwards at discal fold, incurved at vein 3, then very 

 narrow, excurved and ending at vein 1 ; terminal area black, 

 narrowing to tornus, its inner edge angled outwards at discal fold, 

 incurved and slightly waved at middle, and slightly incurved at 

 vein 1 ; cilia white, chequered with black to vein 2, then mixed 

 with brown. Underside of fore wing black, some bluish white at 

 base, an oblique bluish white medial band from costa to vein 2, a 

 bluish white postmediai band, oblique to vein 4 and ending at 

 inner margin near tornus, cilia chequered black and white ; hind 

 wing with the basal costal area bluish white, a black discoidal 

 hiiiule conjoined above to the medial band and with white patch 

 beyond it, the narrow postmediai area white to vein 3. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without any white suffusion on medial area. 



Hind tibiae spined towards base only. 



Hi(b. E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 c? , 1 2, Ussuri ; Japan, Hako^ 

 (\Rie (Leech), 1 cj' , Sendai [Leech), 1 c? , Tokio (Fenton), 3 c? , 

 Yokohama (Jonas, Manley, Jiristowc), 3 cS , 1 $ , KrjJ, 66-70 

 millira. 



