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chestnut subbasal line ; antemedial, medial, and postmedial curved 



lines which approach each other at inner margin, the first angled 



below the cell, the second on median 

 nervure ; orbicular and reniform stig- 

 mata outlined with chestnut ; the 

 area beyond the postmedial line suf- 

 fused with vinous ; a lunulate sub- 

 marginal line. Abdomen and hind 

 wing ochreous, the latter with a 

 fuscous lunule at end of cell and 



Fig. 112.— Pyrrhia umbra, <f . f broad marginal band; the margin 



rufous. Underside with cell-spot 



on each wing, that on fore wing large ; a postmedial line with 



fuscous and rufous beyond it. 



Hab. Europe ; Amur ; Japan ; N.W. Himalayas ; JNagas. 



Exp. 40 millim. 



Sect. II. Male with antennae fasciculated ; eyes with lashes. 



1599. Pyrrhia cuprea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 50, pi. 6, fig. 8 ; C.$ 8. 

 no. 2149. 



S . Head and thorax purplish red-brown ; abdomen fuscous, 

 the extremity fulvous. Pore wing orange, suffused with purplish 

 red-brown ; indistinct double-waved subbasal and antemedial red 

 lines ; the orbicular and reniform orange irrorated and outlined 

 with red ; the claviform with red outline ; the postmedial line 

 dark and slightly curved ; a submarginal dentate yellow line. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the costal area paler ; cilia rufous. 

 Underside rufous, with traces of a postmedial line to both 

 wings. 



One hind tibia has a single spine in accordance with its Heliothid 

 affinities. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus ADISURA. 

 Adisura, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 367. 



Type, A. atJcinsoni, Moore. 



Range. Sikhim, Assam Hills, and throughout Peninsular India 

 and Ceylon. 



Differs from Pyrrhia in having the mid and hind tibiae sparsely 

 spined ; thorax without the sharp crest. 



1600. Adisura atkinsoni, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 368, pi. 37, fig. 6 ; 



C. 8f S. no. 1745. 

 Adisura leucanioides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 368 ; C. fy S. 



no. 1747. 

 Adisura pallida, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 369 ; id. Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 150, fig. 8 ; C. Sr S. no. 1749. 



