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wing- wliltisli suffused with red-brown with a golden gloss and 

 sti'iated with dark brown, the medial area with a deejDer red-brown 

 patch below the cell ; subbasal line white defined on each side by 

 dark brown, sintio\is, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 silverj-white defined on each side by deep red-brown, angled 

 outwards below costa, strongly bent inwards in cell, then obliquely 

 curved ; orbicular with white annulus, oblique elliptical, narrowing' 

 below ; an oblique silvery-white V-shaped stigma below the cell, its 

 inner side angled inwards on median neiwure, its arms filled in by 

 whitish defined by red-broAvn ; reniform with silvery-white outline 

 and slight black marks in its four extremities, its inner edge oblique, 

 its outer strongly indented at middle with a blackish mark beyond 

 it ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with whitish, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly waved to discal fold 

 and angled inwards at vein 2 and submedian fold, a whitish shade 

 beyond it ; subterminal line black-brown with short dark streaks 

 before it from costa to below vein 3 and a longer streak at discal 

 fold, angled inwards below costa, escurved at vein 7 and angled 

 otitwards below veins 4 and 3, a red-brown shade beyond it from 

 costa to vein 2 ; a fine sinuous dark terminal line ; cilia with a 

 white line at base followed by a sinuous red-brown line. Hind 

 wing white tinged with red-brown, the terminal area red-brown 

 with a golden gloss ; cilia white with a red-brown line near base ; 

 the underside Avhite tinged and irrorated with red-brown, a slight 

 brown discoidal striga, diffused postmedial line and subterminal shade. 



Hah. Madbiea (JVollaston, Meek), 1 c? , 4 $ ; Caistaeies, 

 Teneriffe (Leech, Holt-White, Walsingham), 4 S, 1 $ ; 

 Dalmatia ; Geeece, Leech Coll. ; S. Kussia ; Teansvaal 

 {Hoss), 2 c? , Pretoria (Distant), 1 $, Johannesburg (Distant), 

 1 <S ; Natal, Stanger (Delvin), 1 c?,Estco\Trt (Hutchinson), 

 1 d" , 1 ? , Maritsberg (Berenshurg), 1 $ , Durban (Leigh), 

 1 J ; Basutolajntd, Machacha (Graivshay), 1 S ; Cape Colony 

 (Sir A. Smith, Drege), 2 c? , 4 $ type fatefacta, Annshaw 

 (Miss F. Barrett), 1 $ , Grrahamstown (Mrs. Tuck), 1 S , 

 Capetown (Trimen), 1 5 ; Aemekia ; Asia Minoe (Lederer), 

 1 5 , Amanus Mts., 1 c? ; Syria, 1 S , Leech Coll. ; Peesiak Gulf, 

 Fao (Gitmming),! c? , 1 5; N. Peesia, Seharud (Oristo2)h),3 5; 

 W. TuEKESTAN", Sarawschan, Issyk-Kul, Ala Tau ; W. Sibeeia, 

 Altai; E. TuEKESTAN, Hi; Madeas, Nilgiris (Ha mp son), 2 6, 

 1 $ , Palnis (C««?/jJ(?//), 1 S\ Ceylon, Pundaloya (&re(?/i), 1 $. 

 Fxp. 36-46 millim. 



Larva. Kirbj, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 271. 



Green with a lateral yellow stripe. Food-plants : Potato, etc. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute, the terinen 

 slightly excised below it. 



A. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell Y-shaped, or 



U-shaped with a spot beyond its lower extremity gammoides. 



B. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell U-shaped, its 



lower extremity produced to a slight streak egena. 



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