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excurved from costa round the discoidal mark which it touches, then 

 incurved ; postmedial line obsolescent, brownish defined on outer 

 side by ochreous and with dark spot at costa, oblique to below 

 vein 7, then inwardly oblique ; a waved ochreous subterminal line 

 and traces of a waved brown line before termen. Hind wing with 

 the basal half dark red-brown, the terminal half grej^-brown ; two 

 indistinct medial lines and a very indistinct double subterminal 

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

 wing with slight brown murks in middle of cell and on discocel- 

 lulars and brown medial, postmedial, and subterminal lines; hind 

 wing with antemedial, medial, and indistinctly double subterminal 

 lines. 



2 . Abdomen with the four basal segments dorsally ochreous 

 with brown bands, the two following segments with brown spots ; 

 fore wing ochreous, the terminal area suffused with red-brown, the 

 discoidal mark with the spots on head smaller, the medial line 

 excurved well beyond it, the postmedial line reduced to points ; 

 hind wing ochreous, the terminal area suffused with red-brown, 

 two diffused brown antemedial lines, a medial series of small brown 

 spots with pale band beyond it, a prominent ochreous subterminal 

 line with traces of a waved brown line beyond it ; underside of 

 both wings scarlet with curved medial, postmedial, and subterminal 

 lines. 



Ab. 1. rosacea, $. "Wings tinged with flesh-pink; fore wing 

 without black spots on the discoidal mark. 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 2 c? , 1 5, Dharm- 

 sala (Hocl-lng), 1 c? , 4 5 type rosacea; Sikhim (lloUer), 1 J, 1 $ ; 

 Assam, Silhet, 16,32 typt^ modesta ; Bengal, 1 $ ; Madras, 

 Nilgiris (Hampson), 3 c? , 2 $; Java (HorsfieJd), 1 $ tyi^e mollis. 

 Exjp. 58-84 millim. 



7473. Speiredonia martha. 



Hypopyra martha, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 292 (1878); id. 111. Het. 



E.M. ii. p. 41, pi. 31. f. 3. 

 Spirama mgrota, Butl. Trans. Ent.. Soc. 1881, p. 197. 



Head and tegulse chocolate-brown, the thorax red-brown slightly 

 mixed with grej' ; palpi scarlet at base ; antennae blackish ; pectus 

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

 men scarlet, the 1st three segments dorsally blackish brown and 

 the four following segments with dorsal triangular black-brown 

 patches. Fore wing grey-broAvn, the inner half of medial area and 

 the terminal area suffused with red -brown with a slight olive tinge; 

 antemedial line brown, excurved below costa, then oblique; the 

 inverted comma-shaped discoidal mark represented by a chocolate- 

 brown striga on iipper discocellular and three minute grey spots 

 beyond lower angle of cell; medial line brown, excurved from costa 

 to vein 4, then oblique; postmedial line represented by a series of 

 black points on the veins faintly defined on outer side by grey, 

 excurved below costa, then oblique and slightly excurved above 



