ATHYRMA. 
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Genus ATHYRMA. 
Athyrma , Hiibn. Yerz. p. 267 (1827) 
Type. 
adjutrix, Cram. 
Athyrma rufiscripta, n. sp. 
cJ. Head and front half of thorax red-brown, the hinder 
part of thorax whitish suffused with red-brown ; palpi 
irrorated with reddish ochreous, reddish ochreous in front 
and the 3rd joint reddish ochreous ; pectus white at sides ; 
spurs banded white and blackish, the tibiae at extremities 
and tarsi orange-yellow ; abdomen red-brown, the anal 
tuft rufous, lateral series of white points. Fore wing bright 
red-brown with some whitish irroration along subcostal 
nervure, the terminal area white with brown markings on 
termen ; a black striga below the cell near base ; a black- 
brown subbasal bar from costa with line from it to submedian 
fold ; antemedial line rufous and white slightly defined on 
inner side by brown, angled inwards below costa and strongly 
outwards in the cell, then strongly incurved to just above 
inner margin, where it is bent outwards with an upwards 
curve, a deep chocolate -brown band beyond it defined on 
outer side by an oblique creamy-white line, the band forming 
a large conical patch from below the angle of cell to just 
above inner margin, where it extends to just below the 
upwards curve of the antemedial line ; a small black spot 
hr middle of cell ; two rather irregularly waved black-brown 
medial lines ; a black-brown mark in cell before the reniform 
which is rufous defined on inner side by a white striga and on 
outer side by white, very narrow, its upper extremity pro- 
duced to a white streak and its lower extremity strongly 
and narrowly produced ; a very irregular deep chocolate- 
brown patch beyond and below the cell before the post- 
medial line, forming a conical patch beyond the cell and an 
oblique patch below the cell with a hook from middle of its 
inner side running up to the cell beyond origin of vein 2 ; 
postmedial line black-brown defined on each side by rufous, 
with oblique black bar before it from costa, strongly bent 
outwards below costa, then with two black bars before it 
above the patch, then interrupted to vein 3 and the patch 
defined on outer side by white, then incurved and sinuous 
with a diffused black-brown fine beyond it, some oblique 
yellowish white striae beyond it from costa with dark brown 
between them ; subterminal line blackish, irregularly dentate, 
angled inwards at vein 6 and outwards at vein 4, ending at 
tornus ; an oblique black-brown bar beyond it from apex 
with some red-brown above it ; the termen with somewhat 
wedge-shaped brown and blackish patches above and below 
