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shortest ; middle median bmnch emitted from close to lower end of the cell, upper 

 median much curved beyond the cell. Bodij robust, leather short, thorax thickly 

 clothed with soft woolly hairs ; head tufted in front ; eyes prominent, naked ; palpi 

 much elongated, porrected horizontally, not compressed, thickly clothed to the tip 

 with moderately long fine hairs, the inner edge of both uniting together so as 

 to form, conjointly, a long conical beak, obtuse at the tip, second joint oval, third 

 joint greatly elongated and slender ; antennte rather short, straight, articulations 

 indistinct, gradually thickening from the base to the tip, which is obtuse. Forelegs 

 of male very small, brush-like, densely clothed with fine silky hairs ; tarsus shorter 

 than the tibia, cylindrical, exarticulate and destitute of claws. Forelegs of female 

 much longer than in male, femur and tibia of about equal length, tarsus longer, 

 slender ; feinur loosely scaled and with long fine curved hairs beneath ; tibia 

 densely clothed with lax spiny scales ; tarsus clothed with spiny scales intermixed 

 beneath with short spiny hairs, the hairs being stoutest on the anterior ends of 

 the joints, the latter with two terminal stouter spines; the last joint armed with 

 two minute distinct curved claws, narrow paronychia and broader pulvillus. 



Lakva. — Rather slender, sub-cylindrical, pubescent. 



PriPA. — Suspended by the tail. Short, not angulated ; head broad. 



Egg. — " AmpuUiform ; shaped like a soda-water bottle, twice as high as wide, 

 forming a short neck or stalk close to the apex, radiate, with strong and anastomos- 

 ing ribs" (Doherty, Journ. As. Sjc. Beng. 188G, 110). 



Type.— L. Celtis. 



LIBYTHEA SANGUINALIS (Plate 332, fig. 1, la, L, c, J, e, f, g, c? ? )• 



Lihythea Mijirha, var. Sanffuinalis, Fruhstorfer, Berlin, Eiit. Zeit. 1898, p. 169. 



Lihythea Myrrha, Gray, Lep. lus. Nepal, p. 1.5, pi. 12, tig. 4 (1646). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 



p. 83-2. Sw.nhoe, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 130. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 448, pi. 42, fig. 2 (I86ti). 



de Niceville, Cult, of India, etc. ii. p. 303, (1886). Liech, Eatt. of Ciiiua, i. p. 287 (1893). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Both wings deep vinous-brown, with ferruginous 

 markings. Forewing with a ferruginous streak, commencing narrowly at the base of 

 the cell and widening along both upper and lower sides of the median vein, from its 

 base, to the middle of the disc, where it occupies tlie entire width of the upper and 

 middle median interspace and the lower portion of the space above, the streak being, 

 outwardly, broadly rounded and widest at the end of the cell, the cell portion being 

 shaped just like a tent-peg, and very rarely shows traces of a few brown scales 

 across from its indented angle ; two subapical oblique spots, which are sometimes 

 more or less paler or whitish, and are either quite separated, or narrowly joined 

 together on the upper discoidal veinlet, each spot also being sometimes almost 



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