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scales on its outer edge in and below cell ; medial line dark, sinuous ; 

 roniibrm faintly defined by fuscous and witb a point of raised black 

 scales in centre ; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, incurved at discal fold and below 

 vein 4 ; some pale points beyond it on costa and an indistinct curved 

 minutely dentate line ; subterminal line grey slightly defined on 

 each side by fuscous brown, minutely waved, slightly excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of dark brown stria?. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the interspaces of basal half seraihyaline 

 whitish; cilia with fine white line at base and whitish tips; the 

 underside paler. 



Ab. 1. spilalis. Fore wing with black spot on vein 1 beyond the 

 antemedial line. 



Ab. 2. phiicisoides. Fore wing with black spots on vein 1 beyond 

 the antemedial and medial lines. 



Ab, 3. Fore wing with white patch on inner area beyond tho 

 antemedial black spot. 



Ab. 4. Fore Aving with the white patch on inner area but 

 without the black spot. 



Ab. 5. Fore wing with diffused brown streak on median nervure 

 and thence to term en. 



Ab. 6. The type. Fore wingsufiused with black from near base to 

 middle. 



Ab. 7. ilioracica. Similar, but head, thorax, abdomen, and the 

 terminal half of fore wing except towards tornus whitish. 



Hah. CEi'LOif (Templeton), 2 g types iJiomcica and pJij/cisoides, 

 Maskeliya (Pole), 1 $ ; Peeak, Goping (KUnstler), 1 $ ; S'ingapoeg 

 {liicUey), 4 c?, 6 5 ; Bornko, Sarawak {WaUace), 1 c? , 5 $ , type 

 and types rotundalis and spilalis ; Kevv Beitain, type t $ anmista in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Rv2}. 20-24 millim. 



G-iCA. Gyrtona acisalis. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 25.) 



KepJiopteri/x acimlis, Wlk. xxvii. 66 (1863) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 405. 



S ■ Head and thorax dark brown with a purjjlish tinge, the 

 tegulse and dorsum of thorax sometimes with whitish and rufous 

 mixed; pectus whitish; the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen gre}'- 

 brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing dark brown 

 suffused with purple ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line double, waved ; medial line indistinct, 

 waved ; reniform indistinctly defined and with point of raised 

 rufous and black scales in centre; postmedial line double, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, strongly incurved 

 below vein 4 to below end of cell, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa : subterminal line indistinct, double, minutely dentate ; 

 a terminal series of small black spots. Hind wing fuscous brown, 

 the interspaces of basal half whitish. 



Hab. Ceylon (Nietner), 3 c? type ; Singapore (Ridley), 2 J . 

 Exn. 22-26 millim. 



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