360 1^^0CTUIDJ5, 



margin, where it is defined by greyish ; an indistinct double waved 

 subterminal line filled in with greyish and a slight waved line 

 before termen. Hind wing with the basal half dark brown, the 

 terminal half grey-brown; two indistinct diffused dark antemedial 

 lines and a medial line, and traces of a postmedial and subterminal 

 line. Underside of both wings scarlet suffused with brown ; fore 

 wing with dark discoidal spot and both wings with rather diffused 

 medial, postmedial, and subterminal lines. 



5 . Thorax ochreous with a slight red-brown line across meta- 

 thorax ; abdomen with the four basal segments dorsally banded 

 ochreous and brown, the two following segments with dorsal brown 

 patches. Fore wing ochreous with some red-brown suffusion 

 beyond inner half of antemedial line, between the medial and 

 postmedial lines on inner area and on terminal area, and a wedge- 

 shaped patch from above the head of the discoidal mark, the medial 

 line excurved well beyond the discoidal mark, then oblique, the post- 

 medial line slight waved and with points on the veins below vein 5, 

 the waved line before termen more distinct : hind wing ochreous, 

 the postmedial and terminal areas suffused with red-brown, the two 

 diffused antemedial lines distinct, a crenulate medial line defined 

 on outer side by ochreous, a double subterminal line filled in with 

 ochreous, the inner line diffused on inner side, two waved lines 

 before termen; underside of both wings bright scarlet with small 

 discoidal spots, the postmedial line minutely waved. 



Ab. 1. J . Pore wing with the basal area greenish grey. 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur {G. Young), 4 2 , Simla (Harford), 

 2 d , 1 $ ; AssASi, Silhet, 2 $ ; Madras, Nilgiris (Hampson), 2 (S , 

 2 5 tvpe ; Cexlon (Lindesay), 1 cS ; Java (Horsjield), 1 2 . E.V2y. 

 66--80 millim. ' . . 



7472. Speiredonia triloba. 



Spirama triloba, Guen, Noct. ill. p. 197 (1852) ; Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 553. 

 HyjMpijra mollis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 198 (1852). 

 Spirama modesta, Moove, Lep. Atk. p. IfiS (1882). 

 Spirama caiifusa, Butl, 111. Het. B.M. vii. p. 78, pi. 132. ff. G-8 (1889). 



S . Head and tegulse dark red-brown ; thorax whitish tinged 

 with red-brown ; palpi scarlet at base ; legs grey-brown, the hair 

 on cosse and femora scarlet ; abdomen scarlet, the four basal 

 segments with dorsal ochreous and dark brown bands, the three 

 following segments with triangular dark brown dorsal patches, lateral 

 series of small spots and sublateral spots on terminal segments. 

 Pore wing pale reddish brown with an ochreous tinge, the base and 

 costal area to beyond middle greyish, the inner medial area and 

 terminal area browner ; antemedial line slight, brown, exc\irved 

 from costa to median nervure, thou oblique ; an obsolescent in- 

 verted comma-shaped discoidal mark, its tail slight, brownish, its 

 head broken up into three greyish white spots with black-brown 

 spots on the upper and lower ones; medial line slight, brown. 



