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b}^ black-brown on inner side and outer side of head, otherwise 

 slightly defined, and with a few white scales on outer side of tail 

 and inner side of head, the head filled in with dark brown ; traces 

 of a dark medial line, excurved from costa round the diseoidal 

 mark, then oblique ; a very indistinct waved postmedial line, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique; a very indistinct dark 

 subtorminal line. Hind wing with the basal half dark brown, the 

 terminal half greyish brown ; traces of dark antemedial, medial, 

 and postmedial lines. Underside of both wings dark reddish 

 brown ; fore wing with faint dark spots in middle of coll and ou 

 discocellulars, and traces of curved medial, postmedial, and subter- 

 minal lines; hind wing with faint dark diseoidal point and traces 

 of curved medial, postmedial, and subterminal lines. 



2 . Thorax ochreous white ; abdomen ochreous white with 

 slight brown segmental lines and the two terminal segments 

 scarlet ; fore wing ochreous white with some brown suffusion on 

 inner medial area, on postmedial costal area, and on middle of 

 terminal area, the lines and diseoidal mark distinct, the medial 

 line waved beyond the diseoidal mark, a rather diffused double 

 brown subterminal line filled in with white, and two waved brown 

 lines before termen ; hind wing ochreous white suffused in parts 

 with brown, two diffused dark antemedial lines, a minutely waved 

 medial line defined on outer side by white, a double subterminal 

 line filled in with white and with black-brown suffusion before it; 

 underside of both wings ochreous tinged with scarlet, fore wing 

 with dark marks in middle of cell and on discocellulars, hind wing 

 wioh dark diseoidal point, both wings with waved postmedial line, 

 diffused subterminal line, and series of points before termen. 

 Hah. Flokes, Kalao I., 1 d , 1 $ type. Exp. 66 millim. 



7471. Speiredonia indenta. 



Spiramia indenta, Hrapsn. 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. 89, pi. 147. ff. 20, 21 

 (1891); id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 553. 



(5 . Head and teguloe chocolate-brown ; thorax ochreous suffused 

 with red-brown ; palpi scarlet at base ; some scarlet behind the 

 eyes ; legs grey-brown with the hair on coxae and femora scarlet ; 

 abdomen scarlet, the 1st six segments with dorsal dark brown 

 patches reduced in size towards extremity, the 2nd segment with an 

 ochreous line, lateral series of small spots, and sublateral spots on 

 terminal segments. Fore wing red-brown with some ochreous on 

 postmedial area, the base and costal area greyish brown to beyond 

 middle ; antemedial line brown, excurved to median nervure, then 

 oblique; an inverted comma-shaped diseoidal mark, chocolate-brown 

 defined by black with a grey line outside it, the outer edge of 

 head more or less indented at veins 4, 3 ; medial line brown, 

 excurved from costa round the diseoidal mark and touching it, 

 then incurved and double; postmedial line dark brown, oblique to 

 vein 7, then inwardly oblique and slightly excurved above inner 



