B. iKi(/>'amma,) Hind wing of male with slight fringe of hair on base of 

 costa. 



a. Hind wing uniformly suffused with brown quadratijcra. 



b. Hind wing semibjaline yellowish white, the terniiual 



half suffused with brown lo)i,glpe'nnis. 



6444. Nigramma quadratifera. 



Nigramma quadratifera, Wlk. xxvii. 77 (1863). 



Gyrtona dorsalis. Wlii. xxvii. US (186a); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 125 



pi. 158. £f. 10, 11 ; Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 408. 

 Othora indiidens, Wlk. xxxiii. 909 (J 865). 

 ArioUi hryoxMLina, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 120. f. 10 (1874). 



<S . Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with greyish ; 

 pectus greyish ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown with 

 darker dorsal patches, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing red- 

 brown tinged with grey ; aatemedial line indistinct, double, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa, then oblique ; an indistinct curved 

 medial line ; reniform indistinctly defined by blackish and Avith tuft 

 of red-brown scales in centre ; postmedial line indistinct, double at 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, strongly incurved below vein 4 to 

 below end of cell, some alternating blackish and pale spots beyond 



Fig. 58. — Nigramma quadratifera, (^ . {, 



it on costa ; subterininal line grey defined on inner side by a dark 

 brown band with slight black marks before it at discal and sub- 

 median folds, slightly waved and somewhat angled outwards at 

 veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black-brown lunules ; cilia 

 grey mixed with dark brown. Hind wing fuscous brown, the inter- 

 spaces of basal half somewhat paler ; cilia brownish at base, whitish 

 at tips ; the underside whitish tinged with brown, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown, a brown discoidal spot and rather diffused 

 curved postmedial line. Retinaculum with fringe of large scales. 



Ab. 1 {dorsalis). Fore wing with obliquely placed black spots on 

 median nervure and vein 1 beyond the antemedial line. 

 . Ab. 2 (indudens). Fore wing with the antemedial and medial 

 lines deep black, approximated below costa and at inner margin and 

 enclosing a black patch in the cell. 



$ . Head and thorax with white mixed ; fore wing white 

 irrorated with brown, the markings more distinct. 



Ab. 3. The type, corresponding to ab. indudens J . 



Ab. 4. Corresponding to ab. dorsalis (5' , the black spots placed 

 on a red-brown band narrowing towards costa. 



Hub. Ceylo^' {TemiilrAon), 3 ,5,2$, type and types dorsalis and 



