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bands, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomeu grey-brown 

 with white segmental lines, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 with the basal half white, the base slightly tinged with grey ; a 

 subbavsal grey striga from costa with a black spot beyond it in cell ; 

 antemedial line represented by an oblique fuscous bar from costa 

 and a slight mark above inner margin ; orbicular represented by a 

 white point defined on inner side by yellow on the inner edge of 

 the dark terminal half, which is olive-brown shading to purple-grey 

 at termen, its inner edge oblique from costa to median nervure, then 

 incurved; reniform slightly defined bj^ white, strongly constricted 

 at middle and angled inwards on median nervure ; a quadrate post- 

 medial white patch from costa, the somewhat lunulate blackish 

 postmedial line arising from it, strongly incurved below vein 4, with 

 a black and greyish mark on it in submedian interspace and traces 

 of a waved white line beyond it from vein 3 to inner margin ; a 

 white point on costa before the subterminal white line, which is 

 excurved below vein 7, somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 and bent 

 outwards to tornus, the veins beyond it streaked with white on 

 inner half ; a terminal series of small black spots defined by white 

 on inner side and with larger spot below apex ; cilia white, red- 

 brown with some white spots on apical half and at tornus. Hind 

 wing white, the basal area with diffused brown streaks on costal 

 and inner areas and median nervure ; a broad terminal brown band 

 with sinuous inner edge ; cilia white, brown at base towards apex ; 

 the underside with the streaks of basal half reduced, a black post- 

 medial bar from costa. 



Ab. 1. lugens. Much darker ; fore wing with the basal area 

 mostly suffused with olive-brown. 



Ab. 2. albicollis. Head, thorax, and basal half of fore wing 

 wholly white. 



Ab, 3. insolatrix. Fore wing with the medial area fulvous 

 yellow to postmedial line instead of olive-brown. 



Hah. BKiTAiisr (1 sp.); Fkance, Frey, Sand, & Leech Cnlls., 

 Toulouse {Eaton):, Germany, Zeller Coll.; Atjstbia; HtrjsroAEY ; 

 Spain, Leech Coll., Casayo (Chajpinan), Gibraltar {Irby) ; Italy, 

 Eame, Zeller Coll. ; Sicily, Zeller Coll. ; Dalmatia, Frey Coll. ; 

 Greece, Merlin Coll., Morea (Elwes) ; Algeria (Mrs. NiclioU), 

 Philippeville ( WahingJuim), Biskra ( Walsingham) ; Morocco, 

 Tangier, Leech Coll., Mogador, Leech Coll. ; Canaries, Leech Coll. ; 

 MADEiua, Porto Santo {Wollaston, 0. -Grant); Crete {Miss Bate) ; 

 Rhodes, Zeller Coll. ; Cyprus {Miss Bate) ; Bulgaria {Mrs. Nicholl) ; 

 liussiA, Livonia, Sarepta {Christoj)h) ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Syria, Leech Coll., Lebanon, Leech Coll. ; Persia, Fao 

 ( Gumming), 'd S , 2 $ ; W. Turkestan ; W. Siberia, Altai ; 

 Kashmir {Nurse), 1 S , Goorais Valley {Leech), 1 $ ; Punjab, Kulu 

 (Hoching), 3 d" , Cambellpur (Yerbury), 2 cJ , 3 5, Murree {Har- 

 ford), 1 J , Chittar Pahar {Yerhury), 1 § , Wuzeerabad {Hearsey), 

 1 2 type triradiata. Exjp. 26-30 millim. 



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