G^DIKTHA. 347 



*66o5. Gadirtha cerussata. 



Scolopocncme cerussata, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 100. f. 1 1 (1874). 



5 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish, the 

 patagia purplish grey ; palpi with the 2iid joint whitish in front ; 

 jiectus and legs grey, the fore tibise red-brown and whitish in front, 

 the tarsi bauded with brown ; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing 

 jjurplish grey mixed with Avhitish, the costal area red-brown 

 slightly irrorated with black from near base to apex, extending 

 at middle to snbmedian fold, the terminal area with red-brown 

 patches in the interspaces ; antemedial line black, oblique and 

 slightly angled outwards on subcostal nervure from costa to 

 median iiervure, then indistinct, whitish and bent inwards to 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by black and 

 with tufts of raised black scales in centres, the former round, the 

 latter constricted at middle ; postmedial line arising at middle of 

 costa, indistinct and strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 double, black and incurved at discal fold, below vein 5 purplish 

 grey defined on outer side by white, oblique and waved ; some 

 black sufl'usion from subterminal line below costa to the reniform ; 

 subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by leaden fuscous 

 except towards costa, waved ; a terminal series of brown points. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown tinged with grey ; cilia grey tinged with 

 brown ; the underside grey sufiused with reddish brown especially 

 on terminal area. 



Hah. ?, type f $ in Coll. Uothsehild. Exp. 40 millim. The 

 locality is given as " Asia" but the type is labelled " Guane." 



"^m'oQ. Gadirtha aroa. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 16.) 



Gadirtha aroa, Belh.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xr. p. 199 (1908). 



$. Head and thorax red-browni mixed with grey; the tarsi 

 fuscous with pale rings; abdomen greyish tinged with red-brown, 

 the crests darker. Fore wang grey suffused and irrorated with 

 red-brown, the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line blackish, oblique, sinuous, from costa to snbmedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, blackish, oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold, then inwardly oblique and angled outwards on 

 vein ] , a grey patch beyond it in cell and another beyond lower 

 angle of cell; reniform dark-brown, ill-defined, its lower extremity 

 produced ; medial line slight, dark, from costa to reniform, slightly- 

 angled outwards below costa ; postmedial line double, the outer 

 line very indistinct, obliquely excurved and minutely waved from 

 costa to vein 4, then curved downwards and bent inwards to loAver 

 edge of reniform, and dentate to inner margin; subterminal line 

 very indistinct, dark, dentate ; a creuulate black terminal lino with 

 dark streaks beyond it on the cilia. Hind wing yellowish suffused 

 with red-brown, the costal and terminal areas darker; cilia 



