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dorsal black-brown bauds, lateral series of small spots and sublateral 

 spots on terminal segments. Fore wing dark brown, the terminal 

 area tinged with greyish ; antemedial line very indistinct, dark, 

 excarved to median nervure, then oblique ; an inverted comma- 

 shaped discoidal mark, defined by black, and the outer side of tail and 

 inner side of head by silvery white, with a fine ochreous annulus, 

 the head filled in with black-brown ; medial line very indistinct, 

 arising from the head of the discoidal mark, excurved round it and 

 touching it, then oblique ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, ex- 

 curved to vein 5, then oblique ; traces of two slightly waved sub- 

 terminal lines except towards costa and of two waved lines before 

 termen. Hind wing with the basal area dark brown, the rest of 

 wing greyish brown ; faiut traces of antemedial, postmedial, and 

 subterminal lines. Underside of both wings brown with traces of 

 curved medial, postmedial, and subterminal lines. 



2- Thorax grey suffused with brown; abdomen with the four 

 basal segments dorsally banded ochreous and black-brown, the two 

 following segments with dorsal black-brown bands ; fore wing 

 grey-brown with the inner half of medial area and the terminal area 

 except towards apex greenish grey, the lines distinct, the antemedial 

 line defined on inner side by whitish and with a line beyond it from 

 cell to inner margin excurved in submedian interspace, the discoidal 

 mark very large, the medial line double and somewhat diffused on 

 inner area and with white streak beyond it above vein 7, the post- 

 medial line slightly waved and defined on outer side by white from 

 vein 5 to inner margin, the postmedial area with dark streaks on 

 veins 7, 6 ; hind wing with the basal and terminal areas greyish, 

 the postmedial area red-brown, two diffused black-brown ante- 

 medial lines, a minutely waved medial line defined on outer side by 

 white, subterminal line double filled in with ochreous white, the 

 inner line diffused on inner side, two w^aved lines before termen ; 

 underside of both wings scarlet with the veins brownish, dark 

 discoidal marks, curved medial line, minutely waved postmedial 

 line, double subterminal line, and slight waved line before termen, 

 cilia brown. 



Ab. 1. 2- Thorax and wings more ochreous and less suffused 

 with brown. 



Hab. Japan, Tsurugu {Leech), 1 S , Kiushiu, 1 2 i Fushiki {Leech), 

 1 2 ■> Tokio {Maries), 2 5 type shnpUcior, 2 i Yokohama {Jonas, 

 Pryer, B.-Fletcher), 3 d , 2 2 ; N. China {Foi-iune), 1 c? ; Centr. 

 China, Chusan Isl. {J. J. Walker), 2^,2$, Kiukiang {Pryer, 

 Pratt), 2 cJ, I $ , Fokien, Ting-hai {de la Garde), Id"; W. China, 

 Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 (S , Omei-shan, 1 $, Chia-kou-ho {Pratt}, 

 1 (S , Kwei-chow, 1 ^ ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur {G. Young), 1 <S , 

 Dharmsa'la {Hoclciny), 1 c? , 2 2 ■> Masuri, 1 S , Kasauli, 1 J , Dal- 

 housie {Harford), 1 c5" , Umballa (Read), 1 2 ■, Hurripur {Terbury), 

 1 c? ; SiKHiM (Rothney, Boyle, Lidderdale, Dudgeon), 2 d , 4 $ ; 

 Assam {Badgley), 2 c? , 1 2 , Khasis, 1 cJ , Silhet {Stainsforth), 1 2 , 

 Shillong {Parish), 2 § , Tezpur {Parish), 1 $ ; Bengal, 1 c? ; 

 Cente. Peovinces, Raipur {Betham), 2 J ; Bombay, Kanara, 1 2 '■> 



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