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branches blackish, the shaft tinged with pink ; fore coxse and 

 femora above crimson, tibiae striped with iuscous ; abdomen crimson 

 above, whitish below, with dorsal series of black spots and lateral 

 and some sublateral points. Fore wing white tinged with pink ; a 

 narrow crimson fascia on costa ; a black fascia below the cell from 

 before middle to extremity, continued below vein 4 to its middle ; 

 a short subterminal streak above vein 5. Hind wing nearly pure 

 white, sometimes with black discoidal spot, and subterminal spot 

 above vein 5. 



Ab. 1. flora. Fore wing with the fascia reduced to very short 



streaks or points below end of cell, the streak above vein 5 absent ; 



antemedial points above vein 1 and below cell sometimes present. 



Ab. 2. Ground-colour of fore wing nearly pure white. — N. India. 



{a) candidula. Fore wing with the fascia below the cell as in 



typical form. 

 (6) pimctistriga. Fore wing with the fascia reduced as in 



flora, 

 {c) rabrieosta. Fore wing with one point at lower angle of 

 cell only. 

 Ab. 3. All the red replaced by orange ; fore wing tinged with 

 ochreous. 



{a) Fore wing with broad fascia below the cell and streaks 



above veins 3, 4, 5. — Assam. 

 (b) Fore wing with point at lower angle of cell only. — 

 Kashmir. 

 Hab. Kashmir, 2 c? ; N.W. Himalayas, Simla (Harford), 3 c^ ; 

 Punjab, type $ strigata, Manipur, 1 (5,1 $ , type rubricosta, Kulu 

 {G. Young), 2 S ', Nepal, 2 (S type candidula; Assam, 2 $ ; N. 

 India, 1 $ type punctistriga ; Calcutta, 1 2 ; Kutch, 1 c? , 1 5 ; 

 Bombay, 2 cS .^2 2 type flora ; India (Mrs. Hamilton), type dimi- 

 nuta ; Jubbulpore, 4 c? , 2 $ ; Belgaum, 1 S ', Mysore, IShimoga 

 (Watson), 1 <5; Coimbatore {WaViouse),! J , 1 $ ; Travancore 

 (Fellows- Wilson), 1 2 ; Ceylon (Nietner, Yerburg), 4 d* , 3 § , type 

 eynittens. Exp., (S 30, 2 38 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male serrate. 



A. Tegulse edged with scarlet or abnorinally with orange. 



a. Fore wing with postmedial series of black spots . . . costalis. 



b. Fore wing without postmedial series of black 



spots. 

 a^. Fore wing with broad black-brown streaks on 



the vein s , ga ngara. 



h^. Fore wing without streaks on the veins. 

 a^. Abdomen scarlet. 



a^. Hind wing with the termen j'ellow fiavimargo. 



P. Hind wing with the termen not yellow. 



a*. Abdomen with dorsal black bands coUaris. 



b^. Abdomen with dorsal black spots. 



a^. Fore wing with black spot at upper 



angleofcell cardinalis. 



h^. Fore wing without black spot at upper 



angleofcell ...., marginata oh. 



