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outwards below costa, then dentate, strongly bent inwards below 

 vein 3, sorae pale points be3'ond it on costa ; subterminal line in- 

 distinct, pale, defined on inner side by dark suffusion on costal area 

 and at middle, excurved at vein 7, excurved and waved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of small black spots ; cilia v/ith series of blackish 

 points at middle and tips. Hind wing fascous brown with a 

 reddish gloss, the interspaces semihyaline at base ; cilia brown at 

 base, white at tips ; the underside pale, the costal area rufous 

 irrorated with whitish, the terminal area suff'used with fuscous 

 brown, a slight dark discordal lunule aud indistinct diffused sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



2 . Fore wing with the costal half to postmedial line and the 

 inner half of terminal area suffused with black. 



Ab. 1, S • Fore wiug with elongate white spot before the ante- 

 medial line in submedian fold and some white beyond the postmedial 

 and subterminal lines in submedian interspace. 



Ab. 2, 5 . Fore wing with diffused sinuous white streak in sub- 

 median interspace. 



Ab. 3, c? . Fore wing with broad diffused dark fascia from middle 

 of wing in and below cell to termen below apex. 



Ab. 4, 2 • Fore wing with the ground-colour pale olive. 



Ab. 5, $ . Similar but with white marks in submedian interspace 

 before the antemedial and beyond the postmedial line. 



Bab. Punjab, Simla (Harford), 1 c? , Kangra, 2 c? ; Sikhim 

 (Lidderdale), 2 $ ; Eombay, 1 $, Poona ; Madras, Nilgiris 

 {Hampson), 1 cJ , 3 $ ; Ceylon, Dickoya {Green), 2 J , 2 $ , 

 Trincomali {Yerbury), 2 5 5 Singapore {Ridley), 6 cJ , 1 2 ; 

 Pr. New (tuinea, Ekeikei {Pratt), 1 c? , 5 $ ; Queensland, 

 Prisbane (Turner), 1 cS . Exp. 38-50 millim. 



2796. Magiisa orbifera. 



Xylina orbifera, Wlk. xi. 761 (1857). 



Magiisa strigifera, Wlk. xi. 7t33 (1857) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 



p. 297 & ii. p. 488. 

 Stictoptera divaricata, Grote, 6th Eep. Peab. Acad. Sci. p. 37 (187'1) ; 



Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 329. 

 Magusa discidens, Feld. Eeis. JSIov. pi. 108. f. 50 (1874). 

 Magusa sarpida, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 51 (1874). 

 Laphygma angustipennis, Moschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. p. 43, f. 14 (1888). 

 Laphygma divida, Moschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xvi. p. 124 (1890). 



(S (divaricata). Head and thorax rufous mixed with some dark 

 brown; palpi whitish, fuscous at tips; sides of frons with dark 

 points ; tegulae with dark medial patch; pro- and metathorax with 

 paired black points ; pectus and legs pale rufous, the tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen dark brown, the crests, anal tuft and ventral 

 surface rufous. Fore wing red-brown suffused in parts with darker 

 brown, the veins and the interspaces of terminal area with slight 

 black streaks ; subbasal line slight, double, black, excurved below 



