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above toriius ; a fine bvowu terminal line ; cilia deep rufous 

 except at base ; the underside greyish irrorated with fuscous, the 

 basal and postraedial areas tinged with red, a black discoidal point, 

 two curved medial lines, nn indistinct dentate postmedial line, 

 produced to black points on the veins, and a terminal series of 

 points. 



Ab. 1. Thorax, abdomen, and wings grey-browji without rufous 

 tinge. 



Ilab. Bengal, 1 5 ; Bombay, Poena ; Madras, Nilgiris, 1 2 ; 

 Ceylon {Templeton, Mackwood), 2 c5" , 2 $ ; Borneo, 8arawfik 

 {Wallace), 1 S ; Celebes; New Britain; Queensland, Armidale 

 {Dodd), 1 $, Townsville {Bodd), 2 c?, 1 $. Exp: 22 millim. 

 Type t in Mus. Oxon. 



Larva. Reddish with black streaks and lateral dots and yellow 

 transverse bands ; paired oblique white bands on 9th and 10th 

 somites; the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 11th somites with dorsal 

 prominences, the 3rd, -Jth and 5th each with four spatulate dorsal 

 filaments; 1st t-\vo pairs of prolegs absent. Food-plant; Ficus 

 parasiticus, pupating in a small cocoon attached to a leaf 

 (Thivaites), 



5245. Eublemma versicolora. 



Autoba versicolor, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vii. p. 58 (18(54). 

 Tficdpocharcs ruhricosa, Soell, Tidj. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 64, pi. v. f. 9 (1880). 

 Mestleia angulifera, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 179 (1882); id. Lep. Ceyl. iii. 

 p. 208, pi. 175. ff. 2, 2 a; Hiupsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 343. 



Head and tegulae rufous ; thorax and abdomen ochreous white 

 tinged with rufous ; tarsi rufous ringed with white. Fore wing 

 ouhreous white tinged and irrorated with rufous ; slight dark 

 subbasal points on costa and in cell ; anfcemedial line with oblique 

 blackish striga from costa, then hardly traceable, incurved in cell 

 where there is a blackish point on it, and angled outwards below 

 the cell ; a blackish discoidal point ; medial line red-brown, very 

 strongly angled outwards below costa to near postmedial line, 

 then very oblique ; postmedial line red-brown, angled outwards 

 below costa where it is met by a blackish shade from apex, then 

 indistinct, minutely dentate, and incurved below vein 4, the costa 

 beyond it red-brown with some pale points on it; sub1,erminal 

 line formed by minute dentate black marks ; a fine rufous terminal 

 line ; cilia rufous with a pale line at base. Hind wing ochi'eous 

 white suffused and irrorated with rufous ; a rufous medial line 

 not extending to costa; an indistinct minutely dentate postmedial 

 line from discal fold to inner margin ; a subterminal series of 

 minute dentate black marks ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia 

 rufous with a pale line at base ; the underside ochreous white, 

 the terminal area slightly irrorated with rufous. 



Ab, 1. Paler ; wings ochreous white slightly irrorated with 

 rufous. 

 : Ab. 2. Thorax, abdomen, and wings suffused with purplish pink. 



