SPIRAMA. 



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Sect. I. (Spirama). Fore wing with the costa arched towards 

 apex, which is nearly rectangular ; male with a fold on inner 

 area of hind wing, containing an erectile ridge of very long 

 hair ; antennae fasciculate. 



2629. Spirama retorta, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 116, F; C. $ S. 



no. 2561. 

 Noctua spiralis, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii, p. 211. 

 Speiredonia helicina, Hiibn. Zutr, iii, 14, figs. 437, 438 ; C. fy S. 



no. 2559. 

 Spirama suff'umosa, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 195. 

 Spirama triloba, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 197 ; C. fy S. no. 2562. 

 Hypopyra mollis, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 198. 

 Spirama remota, Feld. Sitzb. AJcad. Wiss. Wien, M. N. CI. xliii, 



p. 43. 

 Erebus chemista, Koll. HiigeVs Kaschmir, iv, p. 475. 

 Spiramia cohaerens, Wlh. Cat. xiv, p. 1321 ; C. fy S. no. 2558. 

 Spirama simplicior, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 198. 

 Spirama modesta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 168 ; C. <$r S. no. 2560. 

 Spirama rosacea, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 78, pi. 132, figs. 9-10. 

 Spirama confusa, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 78, pi. 133, figs. 6-8. 

 Spiramia indenta, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 89, pi. 147, figs. 20-21. 



S . Head and collar dark chestnut-brown ; thorax paler with 

 dark bands ; abdomen crimson with triangular black dorsal patches. 

 Wings fuscous brown. Fore wing with the costal and outer areas 

 more or less suffused with purplish and sometimes with an olive 

 tinge ; an antemedial line excurved below costa, then oblique to 



Fig. 314. — Spirama retorta, $ . \. 



inner margin ; a large ' inverted-comma ' mark beyond end of 

 cell, with ochreous and black edges and some white on inner edge 

 of ' tail,' the centre fuscous-black ; a postmedial curved line 

 passing round the stigma or interrupted by it ; another post- 

 medial line excurved below costa and slightly sinuous ; two crenu- 

 ate submarginal lines and two more prominent lines within the 



