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Fig. 74. — Cynthia erota, § 



inner and outer discal black lines and inner aud outer subterrninal 



narrow black bands as on the fore 

 wing, but the outer discal trans- 

 verse line faint and ill-defined 

 posteriorly; the space anteriorly 

 between the two discal lines much 

 paler yellow than the general 

 ground-colour ; in addition there 

 is a dark straight postdiscal diffuse 

 fascia with a superposed ocellus in 

 interspaces 2 and 5 respectively, 

 and a lilac spot at the tornal angle. 

 Underside similar, the basal area 

 enclosed by the inner discal line 

 suffused with cinnabar-red, as is 

 also the outer zigzag transverse 

 ill-defined discal line. Fore wing 

 with, in addition, two cream- white 

 preapical spots and a purplish 

 suffusion between the two subter- 

 minal lines, the inner line straight, 

 not zigzag ; interspace 1 a, and 1 posteriorly from base to inner 

 subterminal line, paler than the ground-colour. Hind wing with 

 some additional transverse linear and loop-like slender black 

 markings at base ; a conspicuous, straight, transverse, narrow dark 

 ferruginous postdiscal band, and a pale purplish suffusion beyond 

 it between veins 2 and 5, not reaching the termen. Antennae 

 dark ferruginous ; head, thorax and abdomen olivaceous orange ; 

 beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen ochraceous. — $ . Upper- 

 side dull brown, the basal area of both fore and hind wings, on the 

 inner side of a vertical transverse line from just beyond apex of 

 cell in fore wing to vein 2 on the hind wing, suffused with olivaceous 

 green ; the terminal margin, broadly, of the hind wing suffused 

 with reddish ochraceous ; a broad, posteriorly narrowing, discal 

 white band inclined obliquely inwards from below the costa of the 

 fore wing to vein 2 on the hind wing, conspicuously interrupted 

 and crossed by the dark veins on the fore wing. Tore wing with 

 the following dusky brownish-black markings : three short trans- 

 verse sinuous lines crossing the cell ; a sinuous liue on either side 

 of the discocellulars ; abroad line, interrupted by the veins, defining 

 the inner side of the white discal band ; a zigzag medial transverse 

 line and a transverse series of very diffuse spots traversing the 

 same band, followed by a postdiscal narrow band and a zigzag 

 subterminal line ; finally, a conspicuous white preapical spot in 

 interspace 7. Hind wing: a dusky-brown zigzag line along the 

 outer margin of the white discal band ; a diffuse broad postdiscal 

 transverse shading, bearing a white-centred, dusky-brown, ochra- 

 ceous-ringed ocellus, in interspaces 2 and 5 respectively, followed 

 by an inner subterminal lunular band and an outer subterminal 

 zigzag line of brownish black; the abdominal fold ochraceous. 



