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ORETA. By W. Warren. 
of a bright yellowish-red; yellowish-red clouds at the apex of the hindwing and at the anal angle of both wings; 
apex of the face, palpi and forelegs of a bright purple; the rest like the wings. Described according to a 
single $ from Penang (Malayan Peninsula). 
fulgens. 0. fulgens Warr. Forewing with a lustrous reflection, violettish-grey, in the basal half and along 
the costa hued olive-brown, with a ditto small anal spot; costal margin lighter, flesh-coloured with few small 
dark scales. Transverse vein marked with 3 pearl-white dots; fringes red-brown; hindwing towards the margin 
of a deeper shade; before the fringes a lustrous line; on the transverse vein 2 small white dots, hinder surface 
of forewing reddish-grey, that of hindwing red; fringes of both wings of a bright flesh-colour. Face, band of 
the head, forelegs, and ventrum purple; thorax and abdomen flesh-coloured grey. A single q from Mt. Dulit 
(Borneo). The apex of the forewing is very much drawn forwards, the margin below it excised and gibbous 
below the middle. 
obtusa. 0. obtusa Wkr. (= vatama Mr.). Head and legs of a bright scarlet; thorax and abdomen yellow. 
In the cf the wings are yellow, uniformly striated brown; forewing with a bright chestnut-brown, bent line 
from the apex to the centre of the proximal margin, the area within suffused with brownish flesh-coloured, 
except a spot at the base of the proximal margin, bordered by an indistinct, dark, proximal line; along the 
centre of the margin a brownish flesh-coloured spot; apex dark with some small white scales at the origin of the 
line. Hindwing with a flesh-coloured median band of variable width, sometimes with darker margins. Disco- 
cellular on both wings with a wdiite line. Fringes of fore wing and at the apex of the hind wing flesh-coloured. 
The ^ (this sex is apparently rare) more intensely suffused with brown, the line of the forewing less curved. 
Sikkim, Bhutan, Pendjab, and Assam. 
snffusa. 0. suffusa Wkr. Forewing brownish fawn-coloured; the basal area (and less conspicuously also the 
marginal area) lighter, dull lilac-grey; the lines as in extensa ; the darker discal area distally bordered by a light 
line which extends straightly and obliquely; near the anal angle a dark spot. Hindwing lighter, the dark median 
band narrow. Described according to a single $ from Ceylon; the type is so far apparently unique. 
extensa. 0. extensa Wkr. Head and legs bright orange-red; thorax and abdomen yellowish, tinted rosy. In 
the $ the wings are yellow, suffused with flesh-coloured brown except the basal area of the forewing and the 
marginal area of the hindwing except its apex, the transverse lines are represented by rows of small dark inter- 
nerval spots which are clearer in the light areas; on the discocellular 2 small silvery white dots. Forewing 
with an extinct, crooked, proximal yellow line; and an oblique, distal, straight line of the same colour from 
the apex to behind the centre of the proximal margin; before the anal angle a dark brown dot. The <f$ is much 
duller, of a more uni-coloured violettish brown, except the hindwings which are of a pure yellow in Ceylon 
specimens. It occurs in the Khasia Hills in Assam, and in Sikkim and Bombay in India, in Ceylon and Burmah. 
perfusa. — In ab. perfusa ah. nov. the $$ are more reddish, and the hindwing does not exhibit any yellow. 
figlina. 0. figlina Swh. (50 k). Forewing brownish-red, costal-marginal stripe lighter, dotted dark; basal 
area rather much lighter; proximal line bent, indistinct; distal line fine, lighter, straight to vein 6 where it 
is angular and pressed down to a brown costal-marginal stripe, on the discocellular a white angular line. Hind¬ 
wing redder. Under surface reddish with blackish dotting on the fore wing, hindwing of a bright pure red; the 
$ has much more yellow in the hindwing. Java. -—- This seems to be the Javanese form of extensa and of its 
form perfusa. 
camea. 0. carnea Btlr. Forewing light red-brown with dark speckling. Proximal line bent, distal line 
straight into the apex before wich it is bent back; olive-green, above the centre bordered with whitish, 
somewhat lustrous, small scales; on the transverse vein a dark angular line; marginal area more speckled, in 
some cases with traces of a dark subterminal line. Hindwing with a curved, cloudy distal line; on either end of 
the transverse vein a light lustrous spot. Under surface reddish, speckled blackish, traces of the distal line; 
nucicolor. cellular spot black. Singapore on the Malayan Peninsula. — The Indian form nucicolor subsp. nov. (50 k) is 
nut-brown, the distal line black. 1 $ (type) from the Khasia Hills; 1 $ from Calcutta (Bengal) is darker; the type 
in the Tring Museum. 
rubromargi- 0. rubromarginata Swh. Forewing yellow, at the base and along the margin hued with red, behind 
nata. an extinct subterminal line; hindwing almost entirely red. Type from Borneo. Forewing apparently angular 
on vein 3. The position of this species is doubtful. 
olivacea. 0. olivacea Dudg. Forewing smoky olive-grey, faintly speckled dark; the median area between the 
proximal and distal lines darker; the latter on vein 6 angular and bent back to the costal margin, the apical 
area behind it whitish; at the anal angle a dark dot. 2 lustrous white dots on the transverse vein. Hindwing 
uni-coloured grey. Sikkim. 
griseotincta. 0. griseotincta Hmps. (50 k). Palpi and legs scarlet; head, thorax, abdomen, and wings dull reddisli- 
brown; forewing slightly strewn with silvery grey, particularly along the costa; the proximal and distal lines 
dark brown, proceeding from dark costal-marginal spots, below the costal angular and nearing each other 
towards the proximal margin; behind the distal one follows only a whitish spot reticulate in a sombre tint; 
before the apex a blackish spot represents the origin of the subterminal line which is above the proximal margin 
