TLUSILLA. ACHERDOA. 



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and siinious postmedial line; the underside yellowish white, the 

 costal area tinged with pink, a slight dark discoidal lunule. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; C. China, Shanghai (Pryer), 1 S , Ichang 

 {Pratt), 1 5 , Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 ? . ^.rjJ. 28-30 millim. 



Genus ACHERDOA. ^ 



lype. 



Acherdoa. Wlk. xxxii. 451 (1865) ferraria. 



Varina, Neum. Papilio, iv. p. 94 (1884) ferraria. 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint short, 

 rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenna of male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with rough scales and without crests; tibice fringed with long hair on 

 outer side ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, large on medial segments. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 ana- 

 stomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



3460. Acherdoa ferraria. 



Acherdoa ferraria, Wlk. xsxii. 451 (1865); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. 



p. 195. ■ 

 Varina ornata, [Jfeum. Papilio, iv. p. 94 (1884). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with some yellowish white; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulie black at 

 base; tarsi whitish; abdomen black-brown, the anal tuft rufous. 

 Fore wing bright rufous, the medial area with the cell and area just 

 below it and beyond the reniform suft'used with black, the terminal 

 area greyish broAvn ; subbasal line represented by a black striga 

 from costa, a short black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line 

 defined by pure white on inner side, oblique, excurved below cell 

 and slightly above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform with 



Fig. IbQ.— Acherdoa ferraria, (^ . \. 



rufous centres and white annuli defined by black, the former minute, 

 round ; jjostmedial line from costa to vein 3, double filled in with 

 rufous, strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 6, 

 then oblique, below vein 3 pure white, strong and bent outwai'ds 

 to vein 1 near tornus, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 tferminal line indistinct, whitish, slightly excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle and with triangular black spots on its inner side 



