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white ; thorax and abdomen suffused with crimson or purple. 
Fore wing with the basal half either spotted with crimson and with 
a medial band angled on median nervure, or with antemedial and 
medial orange lines, the costal area blotched with purple; the 
outer area either with postmedial band of crimson irroration and 
with postmedial submarginal and marginal series of spots, or else 
with these markings orange and with a purple postmedial blotch 
on costal area running along the costa to apex. Hind wing marked 
with crimson like the fore wing, or with the markings orange and 
with a large blotch on basal inner area, crimson near the base, 
purple outwardly. 
@. Entirely irrorated and suffused with crimson or dull purple, 
except at the margin, which is orange intersected with crimson at 
the angle of each wing, the lines dark ; fore wing with dark cell- 
speck, hind wing with white. 
The form auricincta from Ceylon and Burma has the female 
smaller; the wings uniform pink, except for the orange margin, 
and with hardly a trace of lines or cell-specks. 
Hab. Nilgiris; Ceylon; Burma. Hap. 30-34 millim. 
B. Hind wing with veins 38, 4 stalked. 
3914. Acidalia deviaria, Wik. Cat. xxii, p. 664; C. § S. no. 3974. 
6. Head, thorax, and abdomen crimson ; vertex of head and 
shaft of antenne white; wings with the ground-colour yellow. 
Fore wing entirely covered with crimson except a sinuous ante- 
medial yellow line, a large postmedial patch, and some yellow 
between the postmedial series of patches and the submarginal and 
marginal series of spots. Hind wing with crimson patches on 
inner area, a spot at end of cell, a submarginal series of patches, 
and marginal series of spots. 
Hab. Khasis; Nilgiris. Hap. 26 millim. 
3915. Acidalia volutaria, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 858, pl. 56, fig. 14; 
C. & S. no. 3982. 
“Asthena tristicula, Swink. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 859, pl. 56, fig. 17; 
C. & S. no. 3986. 
Ochreous, with dull rufous suffusion and irroraticn, and a slight 
pink tinge ; both wings with dark cell-speck and obscure oblique 
medial fuscous band ; traces of a curved postmedial line; an obscure 
submarginal sinuous band angled at veins 3 and 5 of fore wing; 
an obscure series of marginal specks. 
The form tristicula is yellower, with the medial and submarginal 
bands more prominent ; hind wing with white cell-speck. 
Hab. Bombay. Hap. 22 millim. 
3916. Acidalia sanguinaria, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1867, p. 641; C. & S. 
no, 3081. 
Orange, irrorated and spotted with crimson ; frons white, with 
