358 NOCTTJIDiE. 



f rons barred with orange and metallic blue-black ; the abdomen 

 orange. Fore wing with the basal area grey, mottled with brown ; 

 the costa orange, with five blue-black spots ; an oblique medial 



[Fig. 191. — Eamadasapavo, J. \. 



black line with vinous suffusion on its outer edge ; the outer area 

 pale chestnut ; the reniform large and incomplete, outlined on its 

 upper and inner sides by black and violet, the upper part of its 

 outer edge by a black line, termiuating in a red speck with two 

 black specks below it ; a black striga from the costa to the reniform, 

 and a blue-black band beyond it from the costa to vein 6, where 

 it is bent outwards to the margin as a streak ; a series of black 

 and white submarginal specks. Hind wing orange. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Ceylon ; Andamans. Exp., $ 45, $ 50 millim. 



Sect. II. (Baorisa). Fore wiDg of male without the ridged 

 membrane and distortion of nervules. 



2176. Ramadasa hieroglyphica, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 133, pi. iv> 



fig. 14 ; C. $ S. no. 1788. 



Pure white. Frons with a black bar ; thorax with a few black 

 specks. Fore wing with five metallic blue-black strigse from the 

 basal half of costa, increasing in length outwardly ; a diffused 

 yellow fascia on median nervure ; two metallic specks below the 

 cell; a postmedial metallic mark from the costa shaped like the 

 letter /^ and followed by a V _sna P e( l mark ; a submarginal line, 

 terminating in three radiating lines, which end in a brown and 

 crimson blotch near the middle of outer margin, with four white 

 specks on it and two metallic lines below it. Legs and underside 

 of abdomen spotted with metallic blue-black. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 50 millim. 



Genus WESTERMANXttA. 



Westermanma, Ilubn. Zutr. il, 23 (1823). 

 Plusiodes, Gum. Noct. ii, p. 385 (1852). 



Type, W. superba Hiibn. 



Range Western and Southern India ; Ceylon ; Assam ; Anda- 

 mans ; Java ; Australia, 



