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with dark brown, the veins with dark streaks ; subbasal line 

 represented by double oblique dark strice from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, dark brown, oblique, waved, the lines more widely 

 separated towards costa and filled in with whitish towards inner 

 margin ; reniform greenish white defined by some dark scales and 

 its centre defined by dark brown, its outer edge somewhat dentate, 

 an oblique dark striga above it from costa ; an indistinct whitish 

 spot defined by brown below end of cell ; postmedial line dark 

 brown slightly defined on outer side by whitish and with white 

 sufi^usion before it from costa to the angle above vein 5, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique, angled outwards and produced to 

 streaks above and below vein 5, then oblique, waved, angled out- 

 wards in submedian fold and inwards at vein 1 ; subterniinal line 

 indistinct, whitish, dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a 

 series of minute dark points just before termen. Hind wing 

 yellow ; an oblique blackish discoidal bar expanding into a spot at 

 lower angle of cell ; terminal area black, narrowing to just below 

 vein 1, where it terminates, its inner edge incurved at vein 2 and 

 below submedian fold ; a small white patch tinged with j'ellow at 

 apex ; cilia chequered fuscous and white. Underside of fore wing 

 with the basal half yellow, the terminal half fuscous black with a 

 curved white postmedial band ; hind wing as above but the medial 

 band extending to costa, the postmedial area whitish irrorated with 

 brown to discal fold. 



Hah. FoKMOSA, Kanshirei ; Assam {BadgJey), 1 $ ; Madras, 

 Nilgiris {Hampson), 1 5 type ; Ceylox, Haputale (MacJcivood), 1 $ , 

 Maskeliya (de Mowhray), "l J , 1 5 . Exp. 72-76 millim. 



B. Palpi of male with the 2nd joint not angled with scales in front at 

 extremity. 



a. Hind wing with medial blackish band rama. 



b. Hind wing without medial band dinaua. 



7342. Ulothrichopus rama. 



Catocala rama, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 128, pi. 160. f. (1885); Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 439. 



Head and tegulae red-brown with some white scales, the tegulse 

 with blackish tips ; thorax grey mixed with dark brown, the pro- 

 thorax with dark brown bar, the patagia with some black scales 

 near edges ; pectus whitish tinged with red-brown; legs whitish 

 irrorated with dark brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with white; 

 abdomen grey tinged with brown, the basal crests red-brown 

 tipped with grey. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with dark brown, the veins with dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented by a curved dark striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line double, dark, oblique, waved, the lines more 

 widel)^ separated towards cotta ; reniform greenish white defined 



