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central belt^ are an indistinct aiigulated greyish line and a white discoidal dot ; beyond and 
parallel to the outer whitish line is an indistinct line paler than the ground-colour and 
immediately followed in the centre of the disk by a trifid blackish spot ; veins on the disk 
whitish ; an oblique trifid apical blackish stripe ; a marginal series of blackish spots ; fringe 
redder than the rest of the wing : secondaries with the basal half and abdominal border 
whitish. Wings below of a more rosy tint than above, the base creamy white ; an oblique 
white dash just beyond the middle of the costa, indicating the commencement of the onter 
whitish line of the upper surface ; a blackish nebula upon the disk : secondaries crossed by 
three dusky lines, the central one alone sharply defined, blackish and zigzag ; a white dot at 
the end of the cell ; abdominal border broadly creamy white : body below flesh-coloured. 
Expanse of wings 39 millim. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale, ^c). 
TAESOLEPIS, Bull. 
Tarsolepis fulgurifera. (Plate CVI. fig. 9.) 
Crino fulgurifera, WalTcer, Cat. Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1347. n. 4 (1857). 
Primaries with the base, costal and apical areas whity brown, clouded with grey ; 
one or two irregular dark brown subbasal lines ; remainder of wing, with the exception of the 
outer border, rich olive-brown, bounded in front upon the third median vein by an elongate 
fusiform silver streak, and crossed in the centre by an oblique band, silvery white internally, 
but whity brown from before its centre to its extremity near the external angle ; this band is 
intersected by a brown stripe almost black towards the base, but becoming abruptly paler 
before the middle, where an oblique blackish-edged pale line is emitted upwards to the median 
vein ; a black streak is also enclosed in the pale band towards its lower extremity, and between 
it and the silver streak are several pale-bordered more or less blackish stripes ; at the interno- 
basal angle of the dark-brown area is a tapering black stripe narrowly edged with whitish ; 
the disk above the silver streak is ornamented with elongated hastate whitish streaks, partly 
bordered with black, enclosing black stripes and alternated towards the outer border by dark 
brown pyramidal streaks ; external border whitish internally, then with a stripe of buff, 
followed by a dark-edged grey-brown stripe and a whitish marginal stripe ; the fringe bufi- 
coloured, tipped with white : secondaries with the basal half cream-coloured; a transverse 
smoky brown spot at the end of the cell ; outer half dark fuliginous brown, with pale- 
bordered elongated black marginal spots ; fringe cream-coloured : thorax pale brown, varied 
with flesh-colour and grey and crossed by more or less curved black stripes ; abdomen cream- 
coloured, banded with blackish. Under surface cream-coloured, clouded and streaked with 
smoky brown : primaries with a marginal series of angular dark brown markings ; secondaries 
with a large black spot at the end of the cell and a marginal series of small black spots. 
Expanse of wings 125 millim. 
North India ? 
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