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b. Fore wing without black an.iuliis below midclle of cell. 

 «'. Fore wing with the ground-colour white. 

 a'. Hind wing suffused with fuscous. 



a^. Fore wing with dentate blackish marks before 



the subterminal line above and below middle . alhidiscata. 

 b^. Fore wing with higlily crenulate blackish line 



before the subterminal line rnfitincta. 



6^ Hind wing white not suffused with fuscous iliudens. 



h^. Fore wing pale sulphur-yellow. 



a?. Hind wing u it wlioUy suffused with fuscous. 

 a^. Fore wing with waved dark shade before the 



subterminal line gulo, 



h^. Fore wing with the shade before the sub- 

 terminal line with straight outer edge -primulina. 



b^. Hind wing wholly suffused with fuscous s^yissa. 



1, Fore wing with small black annulus or spot in centre of 

 reniform. 



a. Fore wing with the whole inner area suffused with 



fuscous ma.rmorifera. 



b. Fore wing with the inner area mostly white. 



fti. Frons with black-brown mixed ; fore wing with the 



subterminal line more strcfngly and evenly waved, (drifrons. 



6'. Frons pure wliite ; fore wing witli the subterminal 



line less strongly waved and incurved above and 



below middle, 



a^. Fore wing with small black spot in centre of 



reniform, the postmedial area mostly white; 



hind wing with the inner area yellow except 



towards tornus ma-sfoides. 



IP. Fo)-e wing with small b'ack aimulus in centre of 

 reniform, the postmedial area red-brown except 

 towards costa and inner margin ; hind wing with 

 the inner margin fringed with yellow hair in 

 male maesta. 



8206. Lichnoptera decora. (Plate CCXXXV. figs. 5 J , 6 $ .) 



Charadra decora, Morr. Proc. Ae. Nat, Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 55; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 06. 

 Lichnoptera felina, Druee, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 471 (part.). 



(S . Head and thorax creamy wliite ; antennae, palpi above, and 

 sides of irons black ; tegulae with black line at base and bars at 

 middle ; patagia with black bars at base and three black spots near 

 tipper edge ; pro- and mesothorax with paired black spots, the meta- 

 thorax with two pairs o£ black bars ; tibiae and tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen white, the sides yellow except towards extremity, 

 black segmental lines and sublateral series of small spots. Fore 

 wing creamy white ; a semicircular black mark at base of costa, 

 small spot at base of cell and subbasal spot below the cell ; a small 

 black spot in cell, spot and bar above vein 1 and oblique mark 

 above inner margin before the antemedial black line, which forms a 

 semicircular mark at costa, then waved ; orbicular represented by 

 two small black annuli with some fuscous suffusion beyond and 

 below them ; two black discoidal striae ; medial line black, oblique 

 and angled outwards below costa and in lower angle of cell, then 



