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and triangular patch below the cell ; a V-shaped mark from middle of 

 costa to lower angle of cell with an oblique maculate band from it to 

 inner margin ; an oblique maculate band from apex to inner margin 

 beyond middle, joined at vein 5 on its inner side by a short band 

 from costa ; a maculate band from below apex to tornus, conjoined 

 to a terminal series of small spots. Hind wing with discoidal dull 

 brown spot ; a subterminal series of spots, the spot above vein 5 

 larger ; a terminal series of small spots. 



2 with the markings dark brown ; hind wing with the inter- 

 spaces more or less filled with dark brown. 



Hah. Centr. & E. Russia, Zeller & Frey Colls., 8 d" , 2 $ ; Syria 

 {Leech), 4 c? , 1 $ ; Altai. Exp., S 36, $ 42 millim. 



Larva. Purplish brown, with paler striae especially between the 

 somites ; the warts rufous on pale spots, with tufts of rather short 

 white and a few black hairs ; a lateral yellowish fascia ; head 

 blackish. 



1722. Diacrisia unifascia. (Plate XLIV. fig. 7.) 



Andala unifascia, Wlk. iii. 774 (1855) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 13; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 240. 

 Alphaa varia, Wlk. xxxi. 297 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het, p. 909. 



White ; palpi, frons at sides, and antennae black-brown ; black 

 spots on patagia and usually on prothorax ; legs banded black and 

 white, the femora orange above ; abdomen orange above, with 

 dorsal, lateral, and sublateral series of black spots. Pore wing with 

 oblique subbasal series of small black spots met on inner margin by 

 the curved antemedial series which has a brownish triangular spot 

 on costa ; a curved brownish band with irregularly waved black 

 edges just before middle, sometimes conjoined on costa to the 

 triangular spot ; three small spots in and beyond upper angle of cell, 

 with larger spot on costa above them and five small spots in and beyond 

 lower angle of cell; a postmedial series of small spots on each 

 side of the veins bent inwards at vein 3 to below angle of cell, with 

 larger spot on costa and paired points beyond it at veins 2 and 1 ;. 

 a subterminal series of short striae on each side of the veins ; a series 

 of spots on termen and cilia, the spots on each side of vein 5 angled 

 inwards. Hind wing with discoidal spot ; a more or less complete 

 subterminal series and some small spots on apical half of termen. 



Ab. 1. varia. Both wings, especially the hind wing, tinged with 

 fuscous. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas, Kulu (G. Young), 2 ,5 , 1 5, Mussoorie 

 (Hearsey), 1 $ type varia, Kasowli, 1 $ , Kangra (Hocking), 7 d r 

 6 2 • ^^P; d 36, 2 40 millim. 



Larva. Butl. 111. Het. vii. p. 120, pi. 138. f. 11. 



Dark-brown, with dorsal and paired subdorsal series of white 

 spots ; the warts black, with tufts of white and black hairs ; head 

 black. 



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