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LEUCANIID^ . — HELIOTHID^ . 
Axylia albicosta. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 20.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male and female. Fore wing smoky black, shading off into brown towards outer margin ; 
a broad dirty-white band along costa, extending into the cell and narrowing to a point at the 
apex ; two indistinct black spots in cell, one at the extremity, one before it ; an indistinct 
curved postmedial band, composed of black specks, from near costa three fourths from base to 
inner margin two thirds from base; a series of antecilial black specks. Hind wing smoky. 
I'nderside dirty white, shaded with pinkish; an indistinct lunule at end of cell, and post- 
medial band of streaks on nervules of hind wing. Antennae pale ; head, thorax, and abdomen 
dusky brown. 
Allied to A. fasciata ; the fore wing much darker, with whiter costa. 
HELIOTHID^. 
Dorika ignea. (Plate CXLIV. fig. .21.) 
Expanse 1-1 ^ inch. 
Male. Fore wing bright orange-yellow, broadly streaked with fiery red along costa, sub- 
median nervure, and median nervules ; subcostal, median, and submedian nervures black ; edge 
of costa white ; a black speck at lower end of cell ; a narrow, curved, broken postmedial band 
from near costa to inner margin ; an oblique black streak on outer margin below the apex ; 
cilia pink. Hind wing ochreous white ; cilia pink at apex. Underside whitish ; costa and 
outer margin of both wdngs pinkish ; diffused streaks of black along subcostal and median 
nervures of fore wing. Antenme and abdomen ochreous; head and thorax reddish brown. 
Allied to D. sanguinolenta, which has no black markings. 
Pradatta pallescens. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 5.) 
Expanse 1^"^ inch. 
Male. Very pale ochreous. Fore wing irrorated with a few dark scales ; a dark spot at 
end of cell. Hind wing ochreous white ; also the underside, except for two fuscous streaks 
along subcostal and median nervures of fore wing. 
Allied to P. bimaculata, but much larger, and with fore wing rather darker and suffusfed 
with fuscous on underside. 
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