322 NOCTiriD^. 



costa to vein 6, then hardly traceable, waved, some short red 

 streaks beyond it on costa and a streak on vein 9 ; traces of a 

 rather punctiform reddish subterrainal line ; cilia red. Hind wing 

 purplish pink, tinged with brownish towards base ; a black spot at 

 tornus defined above by a whitish lunule ; cilia pale pink ; Iho 

 underside with diffused dark postmedial line excurved below costa, 

 then oblique. 



Hah. BtJEMA, E. Pegu {Dolieriij), type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exj). 36 mi Him. 



6627. Arachnognatha metascotia. 



Arachnoc/naiha metascotia, Hrapsii. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 451 

 (1897). 



Head and thorax greyish brown ; tegulre and patagia olive-green, 

 the latter edged with brown above ; pectus and legs whitish tinged 

 with brown, the fore tibise greenish ; abdomen whitish tinged with 

 brown especially towards extremity, the crests brown. Fore wing 

 olive-green, the basal and inner areas with some brown suffusion 

 and irroration except at tornus ; a waved dark line close to base 

 from costa to veia 1 ; antemedial line indistinctly double, brown, 

 waved, curved, with dark spot at inner margin, an elongate dentate 

 loop beyond it on vein 1 ; a poirit of raised dark scales in middle of 

 cell ; reniform defined by brown and with some brown in centre, 

 round ; an oblique brownish medial shade from costa to reniform ; 



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Fig. 116. — Arachnognatha metascotia, S- \- 



postmedial line whitish to discal fold and oblique to vein 6, below 

 vein 5 brown, dentate, and inwardly oblique with whitish striga at 

 inner margin, some minute brown streaks and whitish irroration 

 beyond it on cosla and a streak below vein 8 ; subterminal line formed 

 of dentate brown marks defined slightly on outer side by whitish, 

 somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series 

 of blackish points ; cilia brown. Hind wing greyish brown, the 

 inner margin suffused with blackish towards tornus and with white 

 postmedial bar; the ijnderside brownish ochreous with diffused 

 sinuous brown medial line. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with the markings redder brown ; hind wing 

 with a faint reddish tinge, the mark at tornus chocolate-brown. 

 — Singapore. 



Rah. Assam, Khasis, 1 d , 1 $ type ; Singapore (JRidley), 1 J • 

 Exp. 34-38 millim. 



