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median veins, and two small spots on the submedian, one being near the base, the 

 other towards the end : hindwing with a larger black spot at end of the cell, and 

 four spots at equal distances apart on posterior margin, the subanal and apical spot 

 smallest and sometimes obsolete. Female : forewing with the black spots less 

 prominent : hindwing with larger black spots. Thorax pure white ; a band in front 

 of the thorax and the vertex crimson ; a black central dot on each tegula ; abdomen 

 above deep ochreous-yellow, with black dorsal and lateral bands ; abdomen beneath 

 white ; legs white ; fore and middle femora crimson above, apex of femora and a 

 streak down front of fore and middle tibiae and bands on all the tarsi black ; antenna 

 black. 



Expanse 2 to 1\ inches. 



"Colombo. Plains; in cultivated ground. August." (Hutchison.) 



Genus AREAS. 



Areas, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 658 ^1855). 



Forewing long, narrow ; costa arched, apex acute, exterior margin very oblique, 

 posterior angle convex ; cell extending to three- fifths the wing ; costal vein extending 

 to two-thirds the wing ; first subcostal emitted at one-fourth before end of the cell, 

 second from end of the cell, quadrifid, the third from below second near its base, 

 and the fifth at one-half from the base of third ; discocellular bent acutely in the 

 middle, radial from upper end of the cell ; two upper medians from angles at end of 

 the cell, second from close before the end, first or lower at one-half before the end ; 

 submedian curved downward from the base : hindwing elongated, narrow, apex 

 produced, exterior margin very oblique and convex towards the anal angle ; abdominal 

 margin short ; costal vein straight, extending to the apex ; subcostal touching the 

 costal for a short distance beyond the base ; two subcostal branches from end of the 

 cell; discocellular bent below the middle ; two upper medians from angles at end of 

 the cell, second from near the end, first or lower at one-half before end of the cell ; 

 submedian and internal vein slightly recurved. Body large, very robust ; palpi long, 

 porrect, compactly squamose, first joint long, longer than the second, third joint 

 conical; legs smooth, short, thick ; antennae bipectinated in male, the pectinations 

 short and thick, serrated in female. 



Type, A. orientalis. 



AREAS MELANOPSIS (Plate 108, Fia. 2). 



Arctia melanopsis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxi. p. 280 (1864). 

 Aha callisoma, Felder, Eeise Novara, Lep. iv. pi. 101, fig. 4 ? (1868-74).. 



Forewing pale brownish-ochreous, crossed by a medial inwardly-oblique narrow 

 grey-black fascia : hindwing brighter brownish-ochreous, suffused with crimson 



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