ANTGE2EA. 101 



a small white spot on inner margin towards tornus ; traces of a 

 subterminal series of small dark spots ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules. Hind wjng fuscous brown, the basal area paler; 

 a slight pale mark on tormen near tornus ; the underside with traces 

 of curved medial and double postmedial lines, the latter with slight 

 black streaks on median nervures, a terminal series of small black 

 lunules, the one near tornus with white mark before it. 



Hob. Sierra Leonk {Cator), 1 2 type ; S. Nigeria (Samr)son), 

 1 2 • ^^J-p. 28 millim. 



6318. Anigrraa rubida. 



Aniffrcea ruhida, \Ylk. 3 om-n. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 139 (1862); Swinh. 



Uat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 93, pi. ii. f. 16. 

 Gadirtha diffu7idens, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 161 (1864). 

 Mgilia obscura, Moore, Leo. Atk. p. 146 (1882) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i. 



p. 392. 



Head and thorax dark brown tinged with purplish red ; abdomen 

 fuscous mixed with purplish red and greyish, the base pale, sub- 

 dorsal series of sliglit black bars and subveutral series of white 

 points. Fore wing dark brown tinged with purplish red, the costal 

 area usually more fuscous, the discal and submedian folds more 

 grey-brown ; traces of a double waved subbasal line from costa to 



Fig, 37. — Anigrcea rubida, (S . \. 



vein 1 ; an indistinct double waved antemedial line bent inwards to 

 costa and inner margin, a small tuft of raised scales on it in cell and 

 another tuft at upper angle above the obscure discoidal spot ; traces 

 of a waved medial line bent inwards to inner margin ; an indistinct 

 double postmedial line, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved 

 at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 and strongly bent inwards to 

 inner margin ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined below 

 vein 7 by a blackish mark and excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black striae and fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, a fine pale line at base of cilia ; the 

 underside irrorated with greyish and with diffused whitish fasciae 

 in discal and submedian folds, a dark discoidal lunule and rather 

 diffused curved medial and postmedial lines. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Moller, Dudgeon), 4 c? , 2 $ ; Bhtttan (Dudgeon), 

 2 5 ; Assam, Nagas ; Singapore {Ridley), 6^,5$; Borneo, 

 Sarawak ( "FTaZ^rtce), I $ type o6sa»Y<. -£a^. 22-34 millim. Typef 

 S and type t $ diffimdens in Mus. Oxon. 



