AETAXA— SOMENA. 
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ts outer margin arched^ occupying one third of the wing, with a prominent orange spot in it 
at the extremity of the cell ; then a narrow pale band, followed by a broken dark one ; a 
broken 2)ale marginal band having patches of the ground-colour at the apex and along the 
outer margin. Hind wing pale yellow. Underside uniform pale ochreous. Head, thorax, 
and abdomen pale brown, anal segments ochreous, 
Artaxa obsoleta. (Plate CXL. fig. 12.) 
Expanse 1{ inch. 
Male. Head, thorax, and fore wing orange-yellow ; the last with an extremely obscure 
band formed of scattered dark scales from lower end of cell to inner margin. Hind wing 
pale lemon-yellow. Underside uniform yellowish white. Shaft of antennte white. 
Nearest to A. anguUgera, but with fore wing darker yellow, and with the band differently 
shaped and obsolescent. 
Artaxa luteifascia. (Plate CXLI. fig. 2.) 
Expanse 1;^ inch. 
Male. Fore wing purplish flesh-colour, uniformly irrorated with dark brown scales ; a 
bright orange maculate fascia just before the middle, consisting of two spots in the cell, with 
an obsolescent one just above it, and one in each interspace below it ; cilia yellow, dark at 
outer angle. Hind wing and underside uniform lemon-yellow. Head, palpi, and shaft of 
antennae ochreous white ; thorax and abdomen purplish, the latter with some ochreous hairs 
above on the last three segments. 
Somena bipunctapex, (Plate CXL. fig. 13.) 
Expanse, c? 1^ ? Ii~lt2 iiich. 
Male and female. Fore wing vinous brown with dark speckles ; costa narrowly yellow ; 
a large yellow patch at apex with two prominent superposed black spots on it varying in size ; 
a large yellow patch at outer angle, nearly joining the apical patch. Hind wing vinous 
brown with brown-yellow marginal band. Underside rather paler. Head, thorax, and abdo- 
men brown ; anal tuft of female ochreous. 
The yellow markings much wider than in S. atomaria and S. apicalis. 
Also in coll. B. M. from Nankow Pass, N. China, Burma, Penang, Kangra. 
Somena sagroides. (Plate CXL. fig. 14.) 
Expanse ^ inch. 
Male. Allied to S. [Aroa) sagrara, but smaller ; tlie fore wing narrower, and more 
pointed at apex ; ground-colour darker and less red. Hind wing slightly darker. Cilia of 
both wings yellow. Head and collar yellowish. Antennae, thorax, and abdomen brown. 
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