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B. Fore wing with the postmedial black patch not extending 



below vein 4 delectans. 



C. Fore wing without postmedial black patch. 



a. Fore wing with dark centre to reniform perplexa. 



b. Fore wing without dark centre to reniform pk(Sohasis. 



5510. Drobeta exscendens. 



Drobeta exscendens, Wlk. xv. 1755 (1858). 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; tarsi brown 

 with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests yellowish, the 

 ventral surface whitish. Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous 

 and yellowish ; subbasal line represented by a slight blackish striga 

 from costa ; antemedial line slight, blackish defined on inner side 

 by whitish, irregularlj' sinuous, erect ; orbicular with whitish 

 annulus, inwardly oblique elliptical, a large rounded black patch 

 beyond it extending from just below costa to just above inner 

 margin and to postmedial line, which is double at costa, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa, then defined by whitish on outer side 



Fig. 99. — Drobeta, exscendens, J. \- 



and minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a faint 

 pale waved subterminal line from costa to vein 4 defined on inner 

 side by dentate black marks ; a terminal series of black lunules 

 except at apex, defined on inner side by whitish ; cilia chequered 

 rufous and black. Hind wing dark brown, pale at base, the cilia 

 yellow; the underside whitish tinged with yellow, a slight discoidal 

 lunule and indistinct curved crenulate postmedial line. 

 Uah. Venezuela, 1 5 type. Exp. 34 millim. 



5511. Drobeta melagonia, n. sp. (Plate CLVIII. fig. 27.) 



2 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous, the tegulse and patagia 

 with some brown ; fore and mid tarsi with blackish bands ; abdo- 

 men brownish ochreous. Fore wing whitish suffused with red- 

 brown and purplish grey and slightly irrorated with black, the 

 outer half of medial area deep black excej)t towards inner margin ; 

 traces of a blackish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line black, slightly angled inwards at median nervure, 

 then oblique sinuous ; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli, 

 small, the former oblique wedge-shaped, the latter conjoined to a 

 small oblique whitish spot below middle of cell ; medial line 



