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752. Oreta violacea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii, p. 62, pi. 141, fig. 18. 



2 - Differs from externa in being yellow, with a purplish, not 

 pinkish, brown tinge ; the collar white ; head and legs less brilliant 

 orange ; fore wing with the whole basal area yellowish ; the ob- 

 lique yellow line from the apex curved ; the apex greyish. Hind 

 wing suffused with purplish, the base, a medial line, and a patch 

 on outer margin yellowish. 



Hab. Nilgiris, S. slopes, 3000 feet. Exp. 28 millim. 



753. Oreta obtusa, Wlk. Cat. v, p. 1167; C. $ 8. no. 1247. 

 Oreta vatama, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 816 ; C. $ S. no. 1250. 



S . Differs from extensa in the frons and legs being more 

 brilliant scarlet ; the thorax and abdomen yellowish. Wings with 

 the ground-colour yellowish, evenly striated with brown. Fore 

 wing with a bright chestnut curved line from apex to centre of 

 inner margin, the area within it suffused with pinkish-brown, ex- 

 cept a patch on base of inner margin bounded by an indistinct 

 dark line ; a pinkish-brown patch on centre of outer margin ; the 

 apex dark, with some white scales on the origin of the oblique line. 

 Hind wing with a broad medial pinkish-brown band with dark 

 edges. Both wings with some white on the discocellulars ; cilia of 

 fore wing and at apex of hind wing red. 



5 • More suffused with brown ; the line from apex of fore wing 

 less curved. 



Hab. Kashmir ; Sikhim ; Sylhet. Exp., $ 40, $ 48 millim. 



B. Male with the antennae thickened and flattened by the 

 coalescing of the serrations. 



754. Oreta obliquilinea, n. sp. 



Differs from obtusa in being ochreous yellow ; the head and legs 

 not so brilliantly scarlet. Wings with evenly-disposed brown 

 striae ; a straight oblique brown line with greyish outer edge from 

 apex of fore wing to inner margin of hind wing before the middle. 

 Underside of fore wing and costal area of hind wing more or less 

 suffused with red. 



The male from the Punjab has almost the whole fore wing and 

 the apex of hind wing suffused with brown. 



Hab. Kalapani, Punjab ; Sikhim ; Sylhet. Exp., 6 38, $ 42 

 millim. Type in B. M. 



755. Oreta albipuncta, Hmpsn. Ill Het. ix, ined., pi. 160, fig. 8. 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-brown. Wings pale 

 red-brown, with evenly disposed dark stria?. Pore wing with an 

 indistinct antemedial line ; a white spot at end of cell ; a post- 

 medial dark and pale red line angled below the costa ; some 

 fuscous suffusion at apex. Hind wing with a medial dark and 

 pale red line. 



Hab. Trincomali, Ceylon. Exp. 26 millim. 



