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middle, whence it turns obliqiiely upwards and crosses tlie wing to the costa near apex ; this 
hand is lilacine grey from the base to the elbow, from which point it becomes pale brown 
externally ; it is bordered on each side throughout and intersected by blackish lines : secon- 
daries clear ochreous : head pale brown, palpi testaceous ; collar green ; thorax and tegulae 
blackish brown ; abdomen dull ochraceous. Under surface clear ochreous ; all the wings with 
a black spot at the end of the cell and a brownish oblique streak across the disk ; femora and 
tibiae of anterior legs clothed with dark brown hairs. Expanse of wings 69 millim. 
Darjiling [Parry &^ Lidderdale) . 
OE^SIA, Guen. 
OrsBsia emarginata. (Plate CVII. fig. 4.) 
Noctua emarginata, Fabricms, Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 240 (1793). 
Oraesia emarginata, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 303. ii. 1203 (1852). 
Orsesia tentans, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xii. p. 945. n. 7 (1857). 
Priiuaries above rosy flesh-coloured ; the costal border crossed by numerous olivaceous 
lunules, from some of which ferruginous and sinuated lines run across the wing ; internal area 
and basal half of median interspaces suffused with steel-grey ; a triangular patch of mahogany- 
brown below the median vein ; three dark brown convergent lines from the sinuation of the 
inner margin to apex, the central line straight, bounded externally by a silvery streak, the two 
others irregularly undulated ; the centre of the first median interspace (enclosed by the above- 
mentioned lines) mahogany-brown ; the outermost of the three lines bounded externally by a 
tapering golden ferruginous band commencing at external angle and intersected by an 
undulated brown line ; a cuneiform mahogany-brown patch on upper half of outer margin ; 
fringe pale stramineous, indistinctly spotted with grey-brown : secondaries pale smoky brown, 
paler and sericeous on costa, with the veins and external border darker; fringe pale 
stramineous. Head and palpi ochreous, banded with vermilion ; collar of the same colours, but 
with a lilacine greyish posterior border ; thorax pale brown, suffused with lilac ; abdomen 
smoky brown; primaries greyish, with the costal border and a diff'used submarginal band 
more or less reddish buff-coloured ; base whitish ; a transverse dusky line crossing the costal 
border near apex : secondaries pale creamy buff ; a discocellular lunule and a broad abbreviated 
submarginal band grey; pectus whitish; venter pale salmon-red. Expanse of wings 40-4'3 
millim. 
Darjiling [Lidderdale] ; Silhet [Stainsforth] ; Punjab, South India, Ceylon, Shanghai. 
The type of 0. tentans is only a brightly coloured specimen of O. emarginata ; in form, 
pattern, and size it exactly corresponds with that species. 
