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FOCTUIB^. 



5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the 

 length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen excised below apex and excurved at middle. 



*8262. Chrysoptera sica. 



Fhisia sica. Grosser, Bevl. Ent. Zeit. xxxv. p. 77 (1890); John, Hor. Soc. 

 Ent. Eoss. xxxix. p. 251, pi. xiv. t. '22 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235. 



Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous and irrorated with a 

 •few dark brown scales ; tegulse with blackish line at middle, the tij)s 

 of tegulae, patagia, and meta thoracic crest red-brown and white ; legs 

 red-brown and yellowish ; abdomen whitish irrorated with brown, 

 the crests yellow tipped with red-brown and white. Fore mng 

 with the ground-colour of the basal area and inner area to the cell 



Fig. \li). — Chrysoptera sica, ^, 



and vein 2 pale purplish pink, the rest of wing metallic golden, the 

 whole Aving suffused in parts with red-brown and irrorated with 

 black, the veins streaked with red-brown ; antemedial line red- 

 brown, excurved below costa, incuiwed in cell, then excurved ; 

 orbicular with whitish annulus defined at sides by brown, narrow, 

 oblique ; a silvery- white oblique elongate V-shaped stigma below 

 the cell, its extremity rather bent outwards ; reniform with whitish 

 annulus defined by brown, constricted at middle ; postmedial line 

 double, red-brown filled in with whitish, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa and incmwed at discal fold, oblique and slightly sinuous 

 below vein 4 and exciirved below submedian fold, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line red- brown, slightly dentate, 

 arising at vein 7, angled inwards at discal and submedian folds and 

 excurved at middle ; a dark brown terminal line. Hind wing 



