GABILA. 471 



extremity of median nervure, discocellulars and bases of veins 3, 

 4 pale flesh-colour; the postmedial area with slight pale V-shaped 

 marks between veins 7 and 3 with some black irroratiou beyond 

 them, and an oblique elliptical silvery white spot deflned by red 

 below costa with two small spots and one below them beyond it 

 followed by a subapical spot, with small V-shaped mark below it ; 

 Bubterrainal white points between veins 5 and 2 with a line dentate 

 line before them ; cilia yellow intersected with red-brown at discal 

 fold and red-brown at tornus. Hind wing yellow, the termen red- 

 brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside pale yellow. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing entirely suffused with red-brown above. — 

 Kilgiris. 



$ . Hind wing with the basal and costal areas Avhitish and with 

 more rufous suffasion on terminal area. 



Hah. "India." {Mrs. IlamlUon), 1 c? , 1 $ type; Sikhui 

 (Dudgeon), 1 $; Bombay {Leith, Jaclsoii), 3 c? , Khandala 

 (Swijihoe), 1 $ ; Madeas, Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 cj' . Exp. 20 

 millim. 



Sect. II. Abdomen of male witli the lateral faus of scales much smaller witli 

 a tuft of long bair from below them ; hind wing with the terinea 

 much less excised below vein 2 and without fringes of hair on 

 upper side. 



6820. Gabala argentata. 



Gabala argentata, Bntl. 111. Het. B.M. ii. p. 56, pi. 39. f. 3 (1878). 



Head and thorax bright rufous, the vertex of head with silvery 

 white patch defined by blood-red, the tegulae at dorsum and sides, 

 the patagia, the pro- and mesothorax with paired silvery white 

 spots defined by blood-red ; palpi white towards base ; pectus and 

 legs white, the fore and mid tibias tinged with rufous ; abdomen 

 white dorsally slightly tinged with rufous, the crests rufous. 



Fig. 171. — Gabala argentata, S . \. 



Fore wing bright rufous ; the basal area with numerous silvery white 

 spots defined by blood-red, with larger subbasal spots below costa 

 and cell and antemedial spots on and below costa, in and below cell 

 and above inner margin, the spot below the cell produced above to 

 an angled mark before the spot in cell ; a pale striga on disco- 

 cellulars; trace's of a double dark postmedial waved line, arising at 



