T KOPIDTAM BA. — TAMBA. 
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on basal segments, but without crests. Fore wing with the 
costa arched towards apex which is produced and acute, 
the termen excised below apex and angled at vein 4, then 
oblique, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 
6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 
the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen pro- 
duced to points at veins 4, 3, 2, crenulate ; the cell about 
one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully 
developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus TAMBA. 
Tarnbci, Walk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 94 (1869) decolor. Walk. 
Obdora, Walk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 95 (1869) nigrilinea, Walk. 
Tamba plumipes, n. sp. 
<$• Head and thorax purplish red mixed with some white ; 
abdomen purplish pink with a dorsal white spot on 2nd seg- 
ment and the genital tufts white ; pectus, legs and ventral 
surface of abdomen white tinged with rufous, the fore legs 
deeper rufous. Fore wing purplish red mixed with some 
whitish and slightly irrorated with brown ; an indistinct 
slightly sinuous brown subbasal line defined on inner side 
by whitish from costa to inner margin ; antemedial line double, 
red-brown filled in with white, slightly waved, inwardly 
oblique below the cell ; a blackish point in middle of cell ; 
reniform large, rufous with slight white annulus defined by 
red-brown ; two diffused sinuous red-brown medial fines, 
the inner excurved in the cell, the outer interrupted by the 
reniform ; postmeclial fine double, brown filled in with white, 
oblique to below vein 5, then incurved, some pale points 
beyond it on costa ; a white patch with diffused rufous in 
centre from costa to vein 5 before the subterminal fine which 
is dark brown defined on inner side by white, angled outwards 
at vein 7, then oblique to vein 5 where it is bent outwards, 
then dentate ; a series of black strise before termen defined 
on inner side by white ; a fine dark terminal fine ; cilia rufous, 
whitish at base. Hind wing purplish red faintly irrorated 
with brown ; a black point at lower angle of cell ; postmedial 
fine double, brown filled in with white, oblique ; a faint 
waved whitish subterminal line with slight blackish marks 
on its outer side except towards costa and a more distinct 
black spot above tornus ; a series of black points before termen 
defined on inner side by whitish and a fine dark terminal 
fine ; cilia rufous, whitish at base. Underside white ; fore 
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