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NOCTUID.E. 



postmedial band from the costa to vein 2 ; hind wing with dentate 

 postmedial white line. 



2 • Fore wing much more uniform in colour and without the 

 black patches ; the oblique line prominent ; hind wing with the 

 band broader and more regular ; no mark above anal angle. The 

 colour often very dark. 



Fig. 299. — Ischyja manlia, $ . \. 



Larva purplish brown and ochreous, irregularly marked with 

 short black streaks ; the head ochreous, speckled with brown ; the 

 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th, and 11th somites with short dorsal conical 

 prominences. Pupa efflorescent. Food-plants, Terminalia, Cinna- 

 momia, &c. 



Hab. Philippines ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Andamans ; Java. Exp., <$ 80-100, $ 96-112 millim. 



2605. Ischyja schlegelii, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxviii, p. 4, pi. 1, fig. 2. 

 Ischyja glaucopteron, Hmpsn. III. Met. viii, p. 88, pi. 147, fig. 19. 



(S . Differs from manlia in the fore wing being dark grey-green ; 

 the antemedial line prominent and angled below the cell ; the 

 orbicular and reniform grey ; no oblique postmedial line, but the 

 large grey dark-speckled patch from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin prominent, its upper angle joined by a dentate grey line 

 from the costa and an irregular brown streak from apex ; a marginal 

 series of white specks. Hind wing with the band narrower and 

 brighter blue ; underside with the basal area suffused with bluish 

 white to near the postmedial dentate line. 



2 more uniform in colour and greyish brown instead of green, 

 with an oblique postmedial line and the irregular brown streak 

 from apex. 



Bab. Nilgiris; Burma; Java. Exp., J 82, 2 96 millim. 



