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paler ; a sliglit sinuous brown stibbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, sinuous, inwardly 

 oblique below tbe submedian fold ; the medial area with three slight 

 double sinuous brown lines, oblique below the cell and vein 4 ; a 

 minute dark point in middle of cell ; reniform obscurely defined by 

 fuscous and with curved fuscous striga in centre ; postmedial line 

 black, arising below costa, sinuous, incurved at discal fold and 

 oblique below vein 4, an obscure dark line beyond it forming a 

 patch on costal area with pale points on costa and its outer edge 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and followed below vein 6 by a series of 

 dark spots ; subterminal line faintly defined on outer side by red- 

 brown, sinuous, incurved at discal fold, angled outwards below 

 vein 4, then oblique ; a fine crenulate black line before termen and 

 fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown with some 



Fig. ll.— Perici/mamendax, cJ. 



blackish irroration except on terminal area ; traces of a double 

 sinuous antemedial line and of two similar lines beyond the cell ; 

 a double slightly sinuous black subterminal line, the outer line 

 arising at vein 6 and followed by an indistinct brown line ; a fine 

 slightly sinuous black" line before termen and whitish line at base 

 of cilia ; the underside white irrorated with brown except on basal 

 and inner areas, tmces of three sinuous lines beyond the cell, an 

 indistinct double minutely waved subterminal line followed by a 

 series of dark points, and a series of black points before termen. 



Ab. 1. delineosa. Fore wing with the medial area variegated 

 with fuscous black. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing suffused with fuscous black from beyond the 

 antemedial to beyond the postmedial line. 



Ab. 3. disjuncta. Fore wing with the medial area variegated 

 with white except the costal area and a patch at end of cell. 



