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stroiigi)' angled outwards ; claviform represented by a pale-edged 

 deep black triangular raark on inner side of antemedial line and 

 conical mark on outer side ; orbicular and reniform deep black with 

 pale annuli, the former rounded or elliptical ; the postmedial line 

 pale, defined on each side bj' black, minutely and irregularly dentate, 

 angled inwards below costa and in discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; 

 some pale points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line 

 defined by dark sufi^usion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with brown, especially towards termen, and 

 with fine brown terminal line ; the underside with the costal area 

 suffused with brown, 



Ab. 1. Eore wing more ferruginous red, without blue-grey 

 irroration, some black suffusion in cell before and between the 

 stigmata. 



Ab. 2. Paler; head, thorax, and basal half of fore wing pale 

 olive-greenish ; abdomen and hind wing whitish, the former with 

 the anal tuft rufous, 



Ab, 3. lunata. Tegulae black or with black line at base ; fore 

 wing brown suffused with purple, and Avithout blue-grey irroration ; 

 claviform often minute or absent, orbicular more triangular. — Kuku- 

 noor, Kashmir, Thundiani. 



xib. 4. chalyheata. Smaller ; fore wing fuscous irrorated with 

 blue-grey, the markings less distinct, claviform minute or absent. — 

 Yatung. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 S , Amdo, Yatung {Hobson), 6 c? , 6 $ ; 

 Kashmir, Eala {McArthur), 2 ^ , 2 5 , Goorais Valley (Leech), 3 d" , 

 (Thompson) 1 c? » 1 $ , type lunata; Pl'NJab, Thundiani (Yerhury), 

 1 2 ; SiKHiM (Lidclerdale, Ehves), 5 d" , 8 $ , type, Ea-j). 26-34 

 millim. 



637. Hermonassa clava. (Tlate LXVIII, fig. 23.) 



Graphiphora clava, Leech, Traus. Eut. Soc. 1900, p. 38. 



S . Head and thorax pale rufous, with some white scales on 

 vertex of head, at extremity of tegulte, and upper edge of patagia; 

 palpi with some black at sides ; tibise and tarsi with some black 

 and ringed with white ; abdomen pale brownish grey, the ventral 

 surface tinged with rufous and fuscous. Fore wing pale rufous, 

 slightly irrorated with black ; the subbasal line white from costa to 

 Bubmedian fold, defined on each side by black striae from costa and 

 median nervure ; blackish spots above and below submedian fold 

 before the waved white antemedial line, which is slightly defined 

 by black scales and by two prominent striae from costa, angled out- 

 wards above inner margin ; claviform, orbicular, and reniform deep 

 black, with whitish annuli slightly defined by black scales ; claviform 

 moderate ; orbicular and reniform rather small, the former rounded ; 

 a waved diffused medial fuscous line slightly angled at median 

 nervure ; postmedial line double, filled in with whitish, dentate and 

 produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved 



