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? . Laky brown, with dark-grey lines and stripes almost exactly as in the male. Expanse 

 of wings 3 inches 5 lines. 

 Calcutta (Lidderdale) . 



Eupterote mutans. (Plate XCVI. fig. 8.) 

 Dreata mutans, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ir. p. 904. n. 3 (1855). 



Clear stramineous : wings crossed near the middle by an indistinct irregularly zigzag 

 purplish-brown stripe ; faint indications of three other stripes across the centre of the wings ; 

 two parallel straight darker lines across the external third, followed upon the primaries by a 

 series of rather large dark-brown spots ; an indistinct undulated line near the outer margin 

 of the same wings and the fringe pale reddish brown : secondaries with the nervures on the 

 centre of the disk brownish : head brown ; antennae red-brown ; prothorax chrome-yellow ; 

 abdomen testaceous. Wings below lemon-yellow, with traces of three pale ferruginous parallel 

 stripes across the middle ; a dark-brown discal stripe : primaries with three or four pale 

 subconfluent brown spots just beyond the discal stripe, and three dots of the same colour 

 nearer to the outer margin ; fringe pale reddish brown ; costa cream-coloured : body below 

 ochreous ; anterior legs laky brown in front. Expanse of wings 3 inches 10 lines. 



North India. 



Eupterote lineosa. (Plate XCVI. fig. 9.) 



Lasiocampa lineosa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. vi. p. 1440. n. 20 (1855). 

 Murlida lineosa, Moore, Cat. Lep. E.I. Comp. ii. p. 422 (1858). 



Pale lemon-yellow : primaries slightly tinted with ochraceous, crossed by four very indis- 

 tinct undulated brownish stripes — the first subbasal, the second just before the middle, the two 

 others nearer together just beyond the middle; a darker brown straight discal stripe, a spot 

 of the same colour beyond it on the first median interspace, and a second towards apex : 

 secondaries with extremely faint indications of two parallel stripes visible through the texture 

 of the wing, a dark brown discal stripe, and a few brown scales feebly indicating a sinuated 

 submarginal line : head and prothorax bright yellow ; abdomen tinted with testaceous, espe- 

 cially at the base ; antennae dark brown. Wings below nearly as above, but clearer in colour : 

 body below ochreous ; tarsi brown. Expanse of wings 3 inches 4 lines. 



Nepal (Hardwicke). 



Eupterote testacea. (Plate XC VII. fig. 1 .) 



Dreata testacea, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. p. 906. n. 9 (1855). 



Wings pale sandy yellow : primaries crossed by eight purplish-brown lines — the first five 

 nearly equidistant, the sixth and seventh closely approximated, straight, the inner one very 



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