GADIRTHA.. 



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round end of cell; postmedial line double, minutely waved, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line faint, whitish, 

 minutely waved, defined on inner side by cupreous brown spots 

 except towards costa ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked 

 with black ; a terminal series of small brown lunules ; cilia brown. 



Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia paler with a blackish mark 

 towards tornus ; the underside brownish white, the costal and 

 terminal areas suffused with fuscous, an indistinct dark discoidal 

 spot. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with antemedial patch of black suffusion from 

 costa to below cell, a wedge-shaped mark below costa beyond the 

 postmedial line and spot at discal fold. 



Hub. ]N. Guinea, Pak-fak {Pratt), 2 S type Ex}!, 40 millim. 



6659. Gadirtha elongata. (Plate CLXXXIII. fig. 21,) 



Plotheia elongata, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 451 (1897). 



5 . Head and thorax oi-hreous mixed with brown ; tegulse and 

 patagia olive-green, the former tipped with ochreons and brown ; 

 abdomen greyish ochreous suffused with brown ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen ochreous, the fore tibiae fringed with 

 green hair on outer side. Fore wing olive-green irrorated with 

 some white and pale rufous ; subbasal line represented by a brown 

 striga from costa; antemedial line indistinct, dotible, waved; a 

 tuft of rnfous scales in middle of cell and a large discoidal annuhis 

 slightly defined by I'ufotis and Avith tuft of rufous scales in centre ; 

 a blackish striga from middle of costa ; postmedial line black and 

 oblique from costa to vein 7, then minutely waved, oblique below 

 vein 4 and with tufts of scales on it above and below vein 1, an 

 oblique black streak beyond it below costa and some small black 

 spots on costa towards apex ; subterminal line slight, white, 

 curved, with rufous spots on its inner side except towards costa ; 

 a fine waved terminal red-brown line ; cilia ochreous mixed with 

 fuscous. Hind wing fnscous ; the cilia pale reddish brown ; the 

 underside whitish tinged with brown, the costal and terminal areas 

 suffused with brown. 



Hah. Assam, Khasis, 1 $ type. Exp. 46 millim. 



