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for one-third length ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing 

 with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 hardly approximated at 

 base ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



4553. Tamraca torridalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. vii, pp. 342 & 457, 

 pi. 6, fig. 15 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 215, figs. 7, 8 ; C. fy 8. 

 no. 4253. 

 Varnia incerta, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 829 ; C. $ 8. no. 2213. 



Head brownish ; thorax purplish ; abdomen purplish and 

 fuscous. Fore wing brownish ochreous. suffused with purplish 



red at base and on inner 

 margin, and fiery red on 

 medial area below cell and 

 on outer area ; a curved 

 dark antemedial line; a dark 

 cell-spot and incurved post- 

 medial dark line with pale 

 Fig. 91.— Tamraca torridalis, rf. \. inner edge _ Hind wing 



suffused with purplish red and fuscous on costal half and with 

 fiery red on inner half ; an antemedial yellow line from median 

 nervure to inner margin ; a triangular white spot below lower angle 

 of cell ; a postmedial line incurved from apex to vein 5, then with 

 yellow on its edge, waved and angled to near margin at vein 2 ; 

 both wings with the margin and cilia purplish fuscous. Underside 

 much paler, with the base of both wings dark. 



Hab. China ; N.W. Himalayas ; Nagas ; Bombay ; Ceylon ; 

 Burma ; Java ; Celebes. Exp. 24-36 millim. 



Genus HEKCULIA. 



Herculia, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 807 (1859). 



Cisse, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 125 (1863). 



Buzala, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 129. 



Ocrasa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1212 (1865). 



Orthopygia, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 29. 



Dolichomia, Raq. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 30. 



Trichauctenia, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix, p. 173 (1891). 



Type, H. marthalis, Wlk. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi thickly scaled, the 2nd joint upturned and reaching vertex 

 of head, the 3rd porrect ; maxillary palpi filiform ; antennae of 

 male minutely ciliated ; the patagia of male reaching beyond the 

 metathorax ; tibiae moderately hairy. Fore wing with vein 3 from 

 end of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for about one-third length ; 10, 11 

 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 approxi- 

 mated for about one-third length ; 6, 7 stalked. 



The male of the section Ocrasa has a tuft of hair from the base 

 of fore femur. 



