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21. Fore wing deep reddish -brown; hind wing and abdomen deep orange . . . 
ophiucha xanthodes subspec. nov. 
Fore wing pale pinkish-grey, irrorated with fuscous; hind wing and abdomen 
light ochrcous-rosy ophiucha ophiucha Meyrick 
22. Crimson-purplish, markings yellow coacervata Meyrick 
Yellow-ochreous or orange-yellow, markings purplish- fuscous and ferruginous- 
orange or fuscous . 23 
23. Veins 7 and 8 in fore whig separate anthina D ukr ant 
Veins 7 and 8 in fore wing stalked . dicroa Dtjrrant 
24. Markings distinctly bicolorous: a pattern of interneural mostly red streaks 
more or less forming a network, traversed by two oblique transverse fasciae 
of darker colour, mostly purple, sometimes brachiate, interconnected, dilated 
to blotches or forming a dark network upon the first one, which still remains 
distinct, at least along dorsum 25 
Markings distinctly unicolorous, mostly red, sometimes purplish, forming a 
network upon yellow or red ground (in that case sometimes yellow spots present) ; 
transverse fasciae, if present, eoncolorous or at most of darker red tinge l * ) 39 
25. Purplish transverse fasciae rather slender, sometimes irregular but neither 
brachiate, nor interconnected by purplish colour, sometimes only thier bases 
slightly extended along dorsum 26 
Purplish transverse fasciae more or less brachiate, interconnected in disc or 
forming a purplish network upon the red one, sometimes dilated to broad 
blotches and obscuring the latter 27 
26. First purplish transverse fascia with base extended anteriorly as a moderate 
marginal streak to before middle of dorsum; a small purplish spot at 1 / 3 of wing 
breadth slightly beyond middle bieecta spec. nov. 
First purplish fascia with base not thus extended; no such purplish discal 
spot erythrodesma Meyrick 
27. Purplish transverse fasciae not including light spots, (at most only with very nar- 
row linear marks), strongly extended along their upper halves, second fascia form- 
ing a dark patch wich is distinctly broader than the remaining light terminal and 
apical spots of ground colour, or disc entirely purplish from base to termen . 28 
Purplish transverse fasciae not thus extended, if broad then retinate with 
series of light marks on veins, second fascia, if dilated along upper half, then 
not or hardly broader than the tomal area of ground colour 32 
28. More than the median half of wing from base to termen occupied by a large 
purplish patch which is connected with base and middle of costa by two promi- 
nences and with dorsum by two broad transverse bars . . pyrilampis Meyrick 
P urplish transverse fasciae distinct, sometimes broadly interconnected in disc 
but not confluent so as to form a single discal patch 29 
29. Ground colour deep red euryperena Meyrick 
Ground colour light or pale yellow 30 
30. Transverse fasciae red, suffused with purplish-fuscous in disc, this colour 
extended posteriorly infervescens Meyrick 
Transverse fasciae purple throughout 31 
31. Second transverse purplish fascia dilated into a large patch connected by three 
broad purplish bars with costa before apex, termen and tornus, but not with 
dorsum floricoma Meyrick 
Second transverse purplish fascia dilated into a transverse patch connected 
by three broad bars with costa before apex, termen and 3 / 4 of dorsum, but not 
with tornus empedarthra Meyrick 
i) Only in L. colabristis Meyrick interneural network reddish-orange, transverse 
fasciae bright crimson-red, cf. sub. 40. 
