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5\ Fore wing witli tlie postmedial line not 

 angled inwards at discal aad. submedian 

 folds. 

 aF\ Fore wing with the antemedial line erect, 



waved hypenistis. 



b^. Fore wing with the antemedial line 



oblique, straight trifariita, 



. Fore wing with green markings. 

 a^. Fore wing with the inner area pale yelloW-green. 

 ttS. Hind wing with hyaline streaks in the inter- 

 spaces of basal half acuda. 



h". Hind wing without hyaline streaks in the inter- 

 spaces of basal half virklaria. 



i'. Fore wing with the antemedial area pale yellow- 

 green glccuoobasis. 



el. Fore wing with oblique bright green band from 

 base of costa to inner margin, with bar beyond it 

 from costa and oblique antemedial band from below 

 costa to vein 1 .„ chlorofjrapta. 



6408. Lophoptera squammigera. 



Lophnptera squammigera, Guen, Noct. iii. p. 55 (1852). 

 Lop}wptera vittigera, Wlk. xxxiii, 920 (1865). 



Head and tegulse dark red-brown ; thorax violaceous grejr mixed 

 with fuscous ; pectus whitish with some rufous in front ; legs 

 blackish, the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen blackish with 

 dorsal series of white points. Fore wing violaceous grey suffused 

 with dark brown, the costal area black-brown expanding between 

 ante- and postmedial lines, then oblique to apex, defined below 

 by a yellowish fascia to postmedial line, its lower edge diffused ; 

 antemedial line double, waved, from the white fascia to inner 



Fig. 56. — Lopho2-)f era squammigera, c?. \, 



margin ; claviform represented by a tuft of raised black scales at 

 its extremity, the oribicular by a slight striga from the dark costal 

 area, the reniform by dark strian from the costal area and points 

 below ; a sinuous brown medial line from vein 2 to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line double, hardly traceable on the dark costal area, 

 bent outwards below costa, then M'aved, incurved below vein 4; 

 two dentate br-own subterminal lines defined on inner side by 

 whitish lunules ; a blackish terminal line interrupted at the veins 

 by white points ; cilia chequered with whitish at tips. Hind wing 

 black-brown with opalescent hyaline streaks in, below, and beyond 



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