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whitish, becoming fuscous towards termen; the cellspot and veins dark. Occurs in the Punjab, Sikkim, 
and Assam, N. India, and recorded from Ceylon; it is common also in China, Corea, and Japan. 
59. Genus : Elydua Walk. 
Differs from Dyrzela in the antennae of the $ being simply ciliated; forewing, as a rule, without 
dark costal or subcostal blotches. Type E. transversa Walk. 
nchreipunc- E. ochreipuncta Hmps. (20 d). Forewing dark red brown with slight purplish suffusion; the lines black; 
ta - the subbasal waved, from costa to submedian fold; inner line waved, oblique, inwardly angled on vein 1; outer 
line slightly outbent below costa, then denticulate, oblique below vein 4; subterminal line marked by whitish 
scaling preceded by minute black marks; terminal line dark; median shade diffuse, indistinct; orbicular stigma 
a black dot; reniform diffuse, brown slightly defined by black, with a round ochreous spot on its outer 
edge, one white dot above it and two below; hindwing grey brown. Sikkim, N. India. 
subpartita. E. subpartita G Beth.-Baker ( = funerea $ Beth.-Baker) (20 d). Forewing reddish brown, deeper in ter¬ 
minal half; subbasal line blackish, excurved below costa, followed by a dark dot in cell; inner line indistinctly 
double towards costa and inner margin, inwardly dentate on median vein and vein 1; outer line black; extern¬ 
ally defined by a pale band, denticulate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; subterminal obscure, 
greyish, with black dots on inner side and a more prominent spot beyond cell; a row of black dots on 
termen; fringe with a pale line at base; orbicular stigma a black point; reniform undefined, with small whitish 
spot on its outer edge with a white point above it and two below it and one on inner edge below; median shade 
diffuse and obscure; hindwing pale tinged with redbrown, the veins and termen brown; fringe pale beyond a 
dark terminal line; in the $ the whole body and the forewing are suffused with fuscous and the markings 
nigronotata. thereby obscured. New Guinea. — ab. nigronotata ab. nov. (20 e) from Collingwood Bay has a dark spot 
beyond middle of the outer line. 
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renalis. E. renalis Moore (20 e). Forewing fuscous irrorated with grey; subbasal line obscure, waved, followed 
by a white dot in cell; inner and outer lines black; the inner excurved at each end, inwardly dentate at vein 1; 
outer excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, followed by a series of black points on the veins; 
subterminal line faint, grey, preceded by a dark shade, indented on both folds; terminal line fine and 
dark, with white points beyond the veins; orbicular stigma a black point surrounded by whitish scales; 
reniform a round white spot, with a white dot above it and two below it externally, and one on inner side; 
a diffuse sinuous dark median line; hindwing whitish suffused with fuscous; a fine dark terminal line; fringe 
with yellowish line at base, then a brown one; the tips white, becoming brown at apex. Ceylon; a very 
flavata. small species; in the ab. flavata ab. nov. (20 e) the reniform is yellow. 
redilinea. E. rectilinea Hmps. (20 e). Forewing greyish fuscous; the lines dark; subbasal slight, straight, reaching 
submedian fold; inner line oblique, straight, somewhat bent inwards to costa and indented on submedian 
fold; outer line erect, straight, a little incurved to costa, followed by minute dark dashes on veins; subterminal 
indistinct, diffuse and dark; terminal line dark with white dots on veins; fringe with yellow basal line; 
orbicular stigma a black dot; reniform a few white scales; median shade diffuse, bent in middle; hindwing 
whitish suffused with brown, with brown terminal line; fringe with yellowish basal line. Recorded from several 
localities in the Punjab only. 
bisignata. E. bisignata Hmps. (20 e). Forewing greyish ochreous with a faint rufous tinge and dark irrora- 
tion; lines brown marked by black spots on costa; the inner defined by whitish on inner side, obliquely incurved; 
outer line double, filled in whit whitish, bent at vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, pale preceded by a 
fuscous shade, ending in a quadrate black spot at costa; a row of black striae along termen; fringe ochreous 
white, tinged with rufous, the tips black except at tornus; stigmata with slight pale annuli, the orbicular round, 
the reniform constricted at middle and with a somewhat S-shaped black mark on its inner edge, confluent 
with an oblique blackish costal patch; an indistinct incurved pale line from lower angle of cell to inner 
margin, with a dark point on it in the fold; hindwing ochreous white tinged with brown, especially on veins 
and terminal area; fringe with white line at base. Described from a single $ from Madras, S. India. 
pellicea. 
E. pellicea Sivinli. (20 e). Forewing greyish ochreous tinged with pink; a black dot at base of costa; 
