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LEBEDA, Walk. 



Lebeda plagifera. (Plate XCIX. fig. 5.) 

 Lebeda plagifera, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. vi. p. 1459. n. 7 (1855). 



Primaries above pale brown ; a large ferruginous patcb just beyond tbe cell, limited 

 internally by an oblique blackisb line which runs to inner margin, and externally by an un- 

 dulated whitish line, its infero-exterior angle confluent with a large cuneiform mahogany-red 

 patch on external border ; subapical area washed with lilac and succeeded by three dark- 

 brown spots ; two or three black spots near the external angle ; an oblique dusky subbasal 

 streak and a brown line from the inner margin to the ferruginous patch : secondaries pale 

 reddish brown, with an ill-defined stripe and the external area slightly darker : thorax greyish, 

 abdomen testaceous. Under surface pale reddish brown : wings with two curved slightly 

 darker discal stripes ; palpi bright burnt-sienna red. Expanse of wings 4 inches 1 line. 



Nepal (Hardivicke) ; Darjiling [Lidderdale). 



Lebeda lidderdalii. (Plate C. figs. 1 & 2.) 



Ferruginous, the female rather paler than the male : primaries crossed by four dusky 

 stripes, the first less oblique than the three others, and immediately followed in the male by a 

 conspicuous white discoidal stigma, the second inarched towards the costa; external border 

 broadly washed with lilacine grey and limited internally, towards the apex, by four small 

 blackish spots. Under surface rather paler than above ; the wings crossed by two parallel 

 darker discal bands, followed by a series of spots of the same colour ; tarsi banded with whitish. 

 Expanse of wings, 6 4 inches, $ 5 inches 8 lines. 



Bhotan [Lidderdale) . 



Lebeda stigmata. (Plate C. figs. 3 & 4.) 



Ferruginous, the secondaries of the female rather paler than in the male : primaries 

 crossed by four subparallel dusky stripes, all more or less inarched towards the costa, the first 

 followed immediately in both sexes by a conspicuous white discoidal stigma ; the area between 

 the second and third and the external border broadly washed with lilacine grey, the inner 

 margin of the external area limited by a series of small blackish spots : secondaries of the 

 male purplish towards the abdominal margin, with pale basicostal area, of the female slightly 

 dusky towards the abdominal margin, crossed just beyond the middle by two parallel diffused 

 bands slightly darker than the ground-colour. Wings of the male below paler towards the 

 costal and external margins, of the female paler all over; crossed in both sexes by two 

 parallel regular continuous discal darker bands : body reddish brown ; tarsi banded with 

 whitish. Expanse of wings, g 4 inches 4 lines, $ 5 inches 8 lines. 



Darjiling [Lidderdale). 



Allied to L. placida of Moore, from which it may be at once distinguished by the form 

 of the second dusky stripe on the primaries. 



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