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to near medial line, the costal area except towards base and the 

 area just before medial line black-brown mixed with pale purplish ; 

 a waved black subbasal line from costa to median nervure ; ante- 

 medial line rej^resented by double very oblique black striae from 

 costa ; a faint pale rufous discoidal bar ; a diffused blackish medial 

 shade, oblique from costa to below anple of cell ; the medial area 

 beyond the cell rufous mixed with violaceous white to the curved 



Fig. 152. — Hyperntrotia albicincta, (^ . }. 



rufous postmedial line ; postmedial area violaceous white; a rather 

 diffused black-brown subterminal line expanding towards costa ; 

 terminal area rufous with a series of black striaj just before termen 

 defined on inner side by white ; cilia rufous mixed with blackish. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown ; a fine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia ochreous ; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated 

 with brown, a brown discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and 

 diflused subterminal line. 



JIab. Assam, Khasis, 1 J type. Ea-2}. 24 millim. 



5836. Hyperstrotia inordinata. (Plate CLXV. fig. 20.) 



Acontia inordinata, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc , Zool. vii. p. 50 (1864). 

 Tarache procrita, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 621 (1905). 



5 . Head and tegulae red -brown, the frons and basal joint of 

 antennae in front pure white ; thorax white mixed with red-brown • 

 abdomen red-brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 ochreous brown, the tarsi dark brown ringed with white. Fore wing 

 dark red-brown irrorated with blackish ; the basal area suffused with 

 white with blackish subbasal line, excurved below costa and ending 

 at the blackish streak in base of sub7iiedian fold ; antemedial line 

 blackish, waved from costa to submedian fold, then incurved and 

 with blackish band on its inner edge ; a diffused white band beyond 

 it, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; a 

 V-shaped black mark on terminal part of median nervure and base 

 of vein 2 ; a slight black discoidal lunule on a diffused white patch ; 

 postmedial line blackish defined on outer side by white, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa and in-curved below vein 4, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa and at veins 6, 4, 8, 1, with black streaks 

 beyond it in the interspaces from below apex to vein 4 : a terminal 

 series of black pointis ; cilia grey-brown chequered with fuscous 

 towards apex and with dark line towards tips. Hind wing dark 

 reddish brown ; the cilia wich fine ochreous line at base ; the 



