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black above. Male. — Fore wings with two irregular and imperfect 

 oblique blackish bands beyond the middle. Hind wings with a 

 black discal dot and three black subtnarginal spots. Abdomen 

 with three black stripes. Female. — Fore wings reddish beneath, 

 with a middle subcostal black dot. Hind wings with three blackish 

 whitish-bordered dots ; two of them submarginal, the third discal, 

 and most apparent beneath. Length of the body 6 — 8 lines ; of the 

 wings 16 — 22 lines. 



«, b. Punjaub. Presented by Brigadier Hearsay. 



Var. Fern. Testacea ; palpi nigri ; abdomen supra rufum, e 

 maculis nigris trivittatum ; alee anticee guttis nonnullis nigris. 



Var. /3. Female. Testaceous, with a slight luteous tinge. 

 Palpi and antennae black. Abdomen red above, with one dorsal and 

 two lateral stripes of black spots. Fore wings with one basal, one 

 posterior at one-fourth of the length, a few discal, and two or three 

 submarginal black dots ; the discal dots forming a very slight and 

 oblique band. 



Var. y like var. (3. Submarginal and discal spots wanting, 

 with the exception of the two hindermost of the latter. Length of 

 the body 7 — 8 lines ; of the wings 20 — 24 lines. 



a. Nepaul. Presented by Major-Gen. Hardwicke. 



b. North India. Presented by £. Doubleday, Esq. 



c. North Bengal. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 



d. North Iudia. Presented by Brigadier Hearsay. 



33. Spilosoma subfascia. 



Isabellina ; palpi antennceque nigra ; thorax fascia antica macu- 

 Usque duabus nigris; abdomen supra luteum, e maculis nigris 

 trivittatum ; pedes nigro varii ; alee anticce guttis costalibus, 

 una subapicali unaque poslica nigris ; posticce guttis posticis 

 nigris . Mas. — Alee anticce fascia obliqua maculari nigra ; 

 postica apud marginem lutece fasciaque brevi nigra. 



Cream-colour. Palpi and antennae black. Thorax with a 

 black spot on each side, and with an indistinct testaceous band in 

 front. Abdomen luteous above, with three rows of black spots. 

 Tarsi, anterior tibiae and fore femora above black; posterior femora 

 and hind tibiae with black tips. Fore wings with black costal dots, 

 with one subapical dot, and with one posterior dot. Hind wings 

 with some black dots by the internal angle. Male. — An oblique 

 macular black band between the subapical and posterior dots; two 

 clots near the tip of the exterior border. Hind wings luteous along 



