COKTi'TA. 



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middle and incurved at diseal fold and below vein 3 ; a lunulate 

 black line before teriuen and a creniilate black terminal line ; cilia 

 chequered whitish and fuscous at tips. Hind wing whitish, the 

 basal half suffused with brown, the terminal half slig'htly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; an oblique minutely waved dark postmedial line ; a 

 double subterminal line, the inner line minutely waved, the outer 

 rather diffused ; a series of black lunules before termen and a 

 crenulate blackish terminal line ; cilia with brownish spots at the 

 veins. Underside brownish white ; fore wing with black spot in 

 cell and large discoidal spot, curved waved postmedial line Avith 

 spot at costa, subterminal patches of fuscous at costa and middle 

 and series of blackish lunules before termen ; hind wing with small 

 black discoidal spot, slight sinuous medial line, curved waved post- 

 medial line, and series of blackish lumiles before termen. 



Ab. 1. Wings with a yellowish tinge. 



Hah. ? Japa^st, 16; C. China, Shanghai, 1 $ , Chekiang 

 {Fryer), 1 c? , 1 $ , Ichang (Hobson), 3 c? ; W. CmifA, Chia- 

 kou-ho (Pratt), 1 6, Kwei-chou, 1 5, Moupin (Kricheldorf), 

 3 (S type. JExy. 46-58 millim. 



b. Hind tibise of male smoothly scaled. 



a^. Wings grey suffused with brown 2^>'o.festa. 



P . Wings purplish red ruficolora. 



8137. Cortyta profesta. 



Pericyma profesta, Christ. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 165 ; id. Rom. Mem. 



ix. p. 39, pi. 2. f. 10 ; Staud. Cat. Lej). pal. p. 241. 

 Tericyma sacra, Staud. Iris, x. p. 298, pi. 9. f. 20 (1897). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen broAvn mixed with whitish ; antennae 

 blackish ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish, the 



Fig. 83. — Cortyta ■profesta, J. 



fore tibiae and the tarsi black ringed with white. Fore wing, 

 whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; a slight 



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