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spot on its inner side in cell and point on its outer side on median 

 nervure ; a small discoidal lunule defined by deep red and with 

 point above it on costa ; a faint pale subterminal line excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved. Hind wing bright flesh-red, the inner 

 margin white ; a black discoidal spot ; a faint pale slightly sinuous 

 postmedial line; the underside whitish, the disk tinged with pink, 

 the termen with brown, a blackish discoidal point. 



ffab. Be. New Guijstea, Aroa R. {Meek), typet 6 in Coll. 

 Eothschild. Exp, 24 millim. 



Sect. II. Both wings with the termen evenly curved. 



A. Underside of both wings of male, except terminal area, clothed with 

 rough hair ; fore and mid tibise with very thick fringe of hair on outer 

 side. 



5358. Oruza vacillans. 



Selenis vacillans, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 189 (1864). 

 Seletiis cequalis, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 189 (1864). 

 Selenis incequalis, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 189 (1864). ' 



Selenis irrecta, Wlk. xxxiii. 1066 (1866) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 209, 



pi. 174. ff. 1, la ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 345. 

 Selenis niviapex, Wlk. xxxiii. 1069 (1865). 

 Xanthoptera selenicida, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 62, pi. 5. f. 4 (1880). 



Head and tegulse rufous ; thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous ; 

 abdomen chocolate-red with a white band at base ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the fore legs 

 brown in front. Fore wing chocolate-red, the costal area white 

 thickly irrorated with brown except at lower edge, the white 



Fig. 65. — Oruza vacillans, c?. 



extending to inner margin near base 5 antemedial line slight, 

 brown with some white on its outer edge, from the costal area to 

 inner margin ; a white discoidal striga connected with the lower 

 edge of the white costal area ; postmedial line dark defined on outer 

 side by white, very oblique from, costa to vein 6 where it is acutely 

 angled and slightly excurved at vein 7, then incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa and some white between its angle and the 

 white subterminal line which has a small black spot before it below 

 costa, angled inwards at vein 7, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle and reduced to points on inner half ; an oblique Avhite 

 mark at apex and small triangular spot below vein 6 ; a series of 

 black points just before termen with slight white strias on their 



