AECTIOPAIS. — CHAEILINA. 587 



indistinct postmedial blackish line with silver beyond it, oblique 

 from costa to vein 4, then excurved to subraedian fold and incurved 

 to inner margin, the area beyond it suffused with deep red-brown 

 with a paler mark above tornus ; the costa and termen black ; cilia 

 leaden grey. Hind wing with the terminal half black, its inner 

 edge oblique and slightly angled outwards beyond lower angle of 

 cell ; cilia leaden grey. 



(S . Abdomen with black dorsal patch on terminal segment ; fore 

 wing without dark suffusion beyond the postmedial line. 

 Hah. Madagascar, 1 2 • Ea^j). 44 millim. 



Genus CHARILINA. 

 Charilina,Wlk.ii. 560(1854) ama^ 



Type. 



bilis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with hair becoming long at extremity, the 3rd long, naked, and porrect; frons 

 with truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity; antennae almost 

 simple, slightly dilated towards extremity ; tibiae fringed with long hair above. 

 Fore wing with -vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from 

 below upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



108. Charilina amabilis. 



Mgocera aTnahilis, Drury, HI. Ex. Ent. ii. pi. 13. f. 3 (1773) ; Boisd. Spec. 



Gen. Lep. i. pi. 14. f. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 40. 

 ^'octua alienata, Pabr. Ent. Syst. (3) ii. p. 60 (1794). 

 Charilina intercis, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 107. f 17 (1874). 



Head, tegulge, and patagia orange; a spot on 2nd joint of 

 palpi, the 3rd joint, sides of frons, and antennae black ; tegulse with 

 black stripes ; thorax pale yellow ; pectus and legs orange, the fore 

 and mid tibiae above and tarsi black ; abdomen orange, with black 

 segmental lines. Fore wing deep red ; the costa black ; the basal 

 area pale yellow, traversed by two obliquely sinuous black lines, a 



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Fig. 253. — Charilina amahiUs, (^ . \. 



streak on vein 1 and with a black outer edge, the yellow produced 

 along inner margin to beyond middle ; a rounded or quadrate black- 

 edged yellow spot in end of cell, and a larger irregular spot below 

 it with another spot just beyond it ; a postmedial spot below costa, 

 with quadridentate mark beyond it and larger spot below it, with 

 two small spots beyond it and one below it ; two silvery antemedial 



