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dorsal tufts darker. Eore wing dark red-brown with a purplish 

 gloss ; the double waved subbasal, aute- and postmedial lines 

 indistinct ; the stigmata with slight black outlines ; a white lunnle 

 on reniform; some rufous streaks before the submarginal line, 

 which consists of a series of small lunulate marks ; a marginal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing pale fuscous, with traces 

 of a medial line. 



Hah. Simla {Harford). Exp. 52 millim. Type in B. M. 

 nU a . A. oVivescari* -SvWk A-N-N/.N 0>l*,i<W(i ) J*iwfrt*» H«ll5. 



1767. Ancara rubra, n. sp. 



cJ . Head and thorax deep vinous red ; abdomen fuscous, with 

 ochreous anal tuft. Eore wing vinous red, with indistinct double 

 subbasal, ante- and postmedial double waved lines ; the orbicular 

 and reniform indistinct, the latter with a white luuule on its outer 

 edge ; the claviform a black lunule ; an irregularly sinuous sub- 

 marginal Hue, with three dark dashes on it at centre ; three white 

 specks on costa towards apex. Hind wing fuscous, the cilia 

 ochreous ; underside with cell-spot and postmedial line. 



Hob. Sikhim {Moller). Exp. 44 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



1768. Ancara thalpophiloides, Wlk. Joum. Linn. Soc. vi, p. 192. 

 Thalpophila cuprea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 604, pi. 59, tig. 10 ; 



C. 8f S. no. 2046. 

 Thalpophila delineata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. m, p. 25, pi. 146, fig. 5 ; 

 C. Sr S. no. 2047. 



Head and thorax red-brown; abdomen yellow, the extremity 

 red-brown. Eore wing red-brown, the veins pale ; a waved sub- 

 basal line ; the ante- and postmedial waved lines forming, with the 

 orbicular and reniform, a broad Y-shaped band, of which the outer 

 arm is broad, with one or two white specks on it representing the 

 reniform; a submarginal dentate line, with some white on it 

 towards costa ; a marginal series of lunules. Hind wing lemon- 

 yellow, with broad marginal red-brown band slightly angled at 

 middle, and broader in the female than the male. Underside pale, 

 suffused and irrorated with red-brown ; both wings with a lunulate 

 postmedial line, highly lunulate and curved on hind wing, which 

 has a spot at end of cell. 



The Ceylon form delineata has the ground-colour rather darker. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Andamans ; Borneo. Exp. 38 millim. 



1769. Ancara cabpistrioides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 344; a $ S. 



no. 2045. 



5 . Differs from thalpophiloides in the ground-colour of the 

 fore wing being darker, the lines and veins white ; the apical half 

 of submarginal line very highly dentate. 



Hah. Khasis. Exp. 40 millim. 



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