^GILIA. — ATHTRMA. 
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\ffigilia describens, Wlh. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 11.) 
j$]gilia describens, Wll-. Cat. xiii. p. 1139. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen dull dark brown ; a pale patch on vertex of thorax. Fore 
wing dull brown with a purplish tinge ; numerous waved indistinct rufous lines, which are 
bent below the costa and then run almost longitudinally to the base of the wing ; a pale sub- 
marginal waved line. Hind wing smoky brown ; a patch of semihyaline bluish membrane 
below the median nervure and in the interspaces between the median nervules. 
Birtha insulata, Wlk. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 8.) 
Birtha insulata, Wll\ Cat. xxxiii. p. 976. 
Expanse S inch. 
Male. Head and collar bright chestnut ; thorax and abdomen pale fuscous. Fore wing 
pale with a slight purplish tinge ; a chestnut antemedial band with pale edges^ becoming very 
broad below the median nervure, and enclosing a spot of the ground-colour on inner margin ; 
a dark spot in the middle of the cell; reniform filled in with chestnut, and with a paler 
chestnut patch on the costa above it ; a postmedial brown line produced to an angle on the 
second median nervule, then recurved to the lower angle of cell and straight to centre of 
inner margin ; some pale patches beyond it ; a large chestnut patch on the costa before the 
apex ; a marginal dark line. Hind wing fuscous, with a darker mai'ginal line. 
Athyrma aurotincta. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 10.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Female. Head and thorax grey, speckled with brown ; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey, 
speckled with brown, with a large golden-brown subtriangular patch from the costa before the 
middle to the apex reaching to the submedian nervure, and broken by a band of the grouiul- 
colour, which includes the lai'ge reniform spot ; the inner edge of the golden-brown patch is 
white and the outer edge bordered by brown ; a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing 
fuscous. 
Athyrma divulsa, Wlk. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 4.) 
Athjrma divulsa, Wll\ Cat. xxxiii. p. 9G6. 
Expanse (J l^inch. 
Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale fuscous ; collar with a black band. Fore wing 
pale fuscous; a black basal speck ; a highly irregular antemedial black band with pale edges, 
the costal half almost obsolete, the inner half oblique and widest at middle ; a black spot in 
the cell ; a pale irregular line from the apex to second median nervule, then recurved 
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