PilTTOMETEA. 461 



fiery red in front. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale red- 

 brown, the medial area below the stigma and the terminal area 

 with a metallic golden gloss ; subbasal line fine, white, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line whitish, incurved in cell, then 

 oblique ; orbicular with brownish centre and whitish annulus, 

 round; a broad U-shaped stigma below the cell, slightly defined by 

 whitish ; reniform wdth brownish centre and slight whitish annulus, 

 ellij)tical ; postmedial line double, brownish fiUed-in with white, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique, a whiter shade bej^ond it ; 

 subterminal line diffused, brown, excurved at vein 7, and obliquely 

 incurved below vein 8 ; a white line before termen from apex 

 to vein 3 ; a fine 'white line at base of cilia. Hind wing reddish 

 brown, the interspaces of basal half whitish ; cilia white with 

 a brown line through them ; the underside with the basal half 

 brownish white, the terminal half sixffused with brown, a brown 

 discoidal striga, diffused postmedial line, and siibterminal shade. 



Hah. PuKJAB, DeyraDhun, 1 J ; Madras, Nilgiris {Hampso^t), 

 1 5 ; Ceylon, 1 S type ; Queenslakd, type f cliiUagoes in Coll. 

 Lucas. Exp. 36 millim. 



h'^. Fore wing with t.he termen erenly curved. 

 a^. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal 

 areas not metallic gohl. 

 fl''. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell 

 Y-shnped, or U-shaped with a spot 

 beyond its lower extremity. . 

 os. Fore wing with the inner medial area 

 sufFiised with golden cupreous, 

 a*^. Fore wing wilh the tail of the Y- 

 shaped stigma forming a large tri- 

 angular lobe gammaloha. 



h^. Fore wing with the tail of the Y- 



shaped stigma not forming a large 



triangular lobe. 



fl'. Fore wing with silver spot filled in 



with cupreous in low er part of cell 



above the stigma ., cwpreomicans. 



n. Fore wing witli sliglit silver mark 

 in lower part of cell above the 

 stigma. 

 «^. Fore wing with the inner and 

 terminal areas chocolate-brown 

 suffused wilh golden cupreous .. chalcedona. 

 h^. Fore wing witii the inner and 

 terminal areas briglit red-brown 

 suffused witli golden cupreous... circumscrvpia. 

 c"'. Fore wing without silver mark in 

 cell above the stigma. 

 c?. Fore wing with the stigma U- 

 shaped with a spot beyond its 



lower extremity verruca. 



h^. Fore wing with the stigma Y- 

 shaped. 

 a^:. Fore wing without black- 

 brown patch on medial area 

 below the cell.,.. hemichcdcea. 



