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some blue-grey in upper and lower parts, narrow, strongly angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; an oblique ochreous brown streak 

 from apex to bej'ond lower angle of cell, whitish towards apex ; an 

 oblique postmedial greyish shade from costa to the streak, followed 

 by an oblique whitish shade ; a waved ochreous broAvn band from 

 vein 2 below the end of streak to inner margin ; subterminal line 

 slight, oblique and dark from costa to the streak, then retracted, 

 irregularly waved and with the area beyond it suffused with 

 ochreous brown. Hind wing black shot with metallic blue ; a large 

 rounded rose-red patch with Avaved edges from below vein 4 beyond 

 the cell to tornus, its centre white and bisected by red on vein 2. 

 Underside of fore wing with blackish streaks on median nervure, 

 vein 1 and the veins beyond the cell, a bluish white streak in cell 

 and streaks in the interspaces of postmedial area and below the 

 cell, bisected by the dark postmedial line, which is slightly excurvcd 

 below costa, then obliquely incurved ; hind wing olive-brown with 

 a purplish gloss and irroi-ated with a few white scales, the basal 

 inner area suffused with black, a curved line from costa to beyond 

 angle of cell. 



2 • Fore wing with the transverse markings less distinct and 

 without ochreous brown suffusion on terminal area. 



IJab. SiKHiM (MoUer), 1 (S , 1 2 ; Assam (Badglei/),! 5 , Silhct 

 (Stains forth), 4 c? , 2 $ , Dibrugrah {Ward), 1 $V Exjp. 130- 

 146 millim. 



7509. Phyllodes maligera. 



Fhyllodes maligera, Biitl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xx. p. 138 (1883) ; Moore, Lep. 

 Ceyl. iii. p. 137, pi. 163. ff. 2, 2a; Hmpsn. Moths Iiid. ii. p. 558. 



c? . Head and thorax greyish brown, the head, tegulae and outer 

 edge of patagia with a plum-coloured gloss ; antennae with the basal 

 joint white in front ; the femora at extremities and tibise at base 

 with slight whitish marks, the spurs and tarsi slightly ringed with 

 whitish ; abdomen black-brown dorsally suffused with metallic 

 blue, the anal tuft greyish. Fore wing olive-brown irrorated with 

 a few large white scales ; two indistinct diffused oblique silvery 

 greyish antemedial bands and a medial band ; a point of raised 

 brown scales in middle of cell ; reniform red-brown, its centre and 

 circumference defined by dark brown, some blue-grey at lower 

 extremities of centre and circumference, narrow, slightly angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; an oblique ochreous brown streak 

 from apex to beyond lower angle of cell, whitish towards apex and 

 with a sinuous ochreous brown band from its lower extremity to 

 inner margin ; oblique silvery greyish postmedial and subterminal 

 shades from costa to the oblique streak and a waved subterminal 

 line from the streak to tornus with ochreous brown suffusion and 

 striation beyond it. Hind wing black shot with metallic blue ; a 

 rounded rose-red patch with waved edges from below vein 4 to 

 tornus, Avith a white patch in its centre bisected by red on vein 2. 



