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62 DEEPANULIDiE. 
Oreta castanea. (Plate CXLI. fig. 7.) 
Expanse 1^^ inch. 
Female. Castaneous brown, the wings crossed by very numerous indistinct waved lines ; 
costa of fore wing and outer margins darker. Fore wing with a broad medial band, bent in- 
wards near the costa, and occupying one third of the wing, bounded inwardly by an indistinct 
diffused line, exteriorly by a narrow dark line with a pale one outside it, with a distinct spot 
on it at the bend ; the dark and pale lines continued across the hind wing. Underside pale 
brick-red ; the inner margins and a patch below the apex of fore wing pale ; a dark line on 
fore wing representing the exterior border of the medial band ; the waved lines more distinct 
than on upperside. Fore wing with a slight rounded hook at apex. 
Allied to 0. rotundipex. 
Oreta violacea. (Plate CXLI. fig. 18.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Male. Thorax and abdomen pale violaceous yellow ; antennae and anal tuft yellow ; 
collar white ; head below and fore legs scarlet. Wings less broad than in 0. rotundipex and 
O. castanea. Fore wing : basal area oclireous, the rest of wing pale violaceous; an ochreous 
band from apex to inner margin two thirds from base ; costa violaceous grey. Hind wing 
pale violaceous ; antemedial and postmedial ochreous bands, which are obsolete towards the 
costa ; an ochreous patch on outer margin. The apical hook long, rather rounded, and white 
at the tip. Cilia white. Underside paler ; band of fore wing yellow ; a large patch of yellow 
on disk and outer margin of hind wing. 
Nearest to 0. extensa. 
Somatina luEuliferata, Walk. (Plate CXLII. figs. 1, 5.) 
Decetia lunuliferata, Walk. Lep. Het. xxvi. p. 1522. 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Ground-colour pinkish brown or olive-brown. Fore wing with an indistinct 
waved antemedial band, sometimes almost obsolete; a pale lunule at end of cell on a 
chestnut or brown patch ; a waved postmedial indistinct band bent inwards below the cell ; 
followed by a distinct waved erect blackish line, the area beyond which is greenish olive ; a 
pale waved submarginal band with dark borders ; apical portion of costa reddish. Hind 
wing with a broad dark medial band, its inner border irregular and bent inwards to include a 
pale lunule at end of cell, its outer border slightly waved, followed by a greenish-olive band 
from third median nervule to anal angle, and outwardly bordered by pale lunules. Both 
wings with dark antecilial line ; cilia red-brown. Underside fuscous, with indistinct waved 
medial and lunulate postmedial bands ; costa of fore wing suffused with bright rust-red. 
Head and antennse black. 
Female. Similar to male, but much pinker in colour ; the wings broader ; the antennse 
simple. 
