ESTIGMENE. 339 



1855. Estigmene interfixa. (Plate XLVII. fig. 18.) 



Phaos interfixa, Wlk. iii. G27 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 2()2. 



S . Head and thorax black ; frons yellow or greyish ; tegula) and 

 patagia more or less strongly edged with yellow; legs mostly yellowish, 

 the femora scarlet above ; abdomen scarlet above with dorsal series of 

 short black bands, the ventral surface yellowish with lateral and ven- 

 tral series of black spots. Fore wing black, with scarlet fascia on or 

 below basal part of costa; the spots yellowish white or bright yellow, 

 and either small or occupying nearly the whole of interspaces ; wedge- 

 shaped spots in and below base of cell ; quadrate patches in and 

 below end of cell, a small wedge-shaped spot above base of vein 2, 

 and streak above end of cell ; a postmedial series of spots excurved 

 to vein 3, then incurved : subterminal and terminal series of spots 

 conjoined into short streaks ; a deeper orange streak on inner margin 

 and a short streak beyond discocellulars. Hind wing pale or deep 

 orange, with diffused black streaks from base on median nervure and 

 vein 1 ; a large discoidal lunule ; a broad terminal black band, its 

 inner edge indented at middle, and with subterminal orange spots 

 on it at middle and above vein 1. 



Hah. Tasmania (J. J. Walker)^ 6 ^ type. Exp. 40 millim. 



1856. Estigmene imbuta. 



Arctia imhuta, Wlk. iii. 614 (1855) ; Butl. 111. Het. B. M. v. p. 33, pi. 86. 

 f. 2 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 21 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. pp. 248, 257. 



Head and thorax dark olive-brown ; basal joint of antennae and 

 vertex of head yellowish white ; tegulae and patagia with yellowish 

 edges ; spots behind the head and femora above crimson ; the tibiae 

 and tarsi with slight yellow points ; abdomen crimson above, female 

 with a dorsal series of black points, rarely present in male, the 

 ventral surface brown or with broad sublateral yellowish-white 

 stripes with series of black points on them and some ventral whitish 

 points. Pore wing with the veins yellow ; a white point at base, 

 a subbasal white point below costa, and antemedial points below 

 costa and in cell, sometimes absent ; an irregular antemedial mark 

 below the cell formed of two spots conjoined by a streak in sub- 

 median fold; a small spot in end of cell with another on costa above 

 it and one below vein 2 ; a spot below end of cell ; a postmedial 

 series of spots excurved to vein 3, the medial and postmedial spots 

 in submedian fold often conjoined by a streak ; three obliquely 

 placed spots towards apex ; a curved series of spots on medial part 

 of terminal area and a terminal series. Hind wing entirely dark, 

 with the veins yellowish ; antemedial, medial, and postmedial 

 white spots on costal area, or with more or less interrupted and 

 reduced postmedial and terminal yellow bands ; or yellow with 

 diffused blackish streaks on basal half and subterminal maculate 

 band. 



Hah. N.W. HiMALATAs, Simla, Dalhousie {Harford), 1 6 ■, 1 $ ; 

 SiKHiM {Lidderdale, Bingham)^ 1 d , 4 $ , type. Exp., cS 50, 

 2 58-68 millim. 



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