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the median and outer exeurved above middle, incurved below, the outer edged with white and partly 
punctiform; the white subterminal emits short streaks to termen on veins 7—3; a whitish line at base of 
fringe; hind wing with base and costal area whitish, the rest redbrown; median line brown, diffuse; 
outer punctiform, edged with whitish; subterminal white, dentate. Quetta, Beluchistan. 
epistrola. L. epistrota limps. (22m). Porewing white thickly dusted with brown; subbasal brown points on 
costa and in cell; inner line from a brown costal spot forming a brown bar in cell nearer base, then 
sinuous; median and outer lines redbrown slightly limited externally by white scales; the former excurv- 
ed beyond a black striga on discocellular; outer exeurved to vein 4 and above inner margin, ' incurved 
on submedian interval; a redbrown maculate band before subterminal line which is white with black 
dots on its outer edge, indented on both folds and outbent to tornus; a fine rufous terminal line ending in a 
rufous shade at apex; hindwing white with brown suffusion; a dark terminal line of points, defined inwardly 
by white. Kangra, the Punjab; a single 
contingens. L. contingens Moore (24 b). Forewing grey white, irrorated and suffused with reddish brown; 
the lines brown, diffuse and waved; the inner double, its outer arm with a black costal spot; median 
bent at middle, barlike above, waved below median; outer line, from a blackish costal spot, oblicjue to 
vein 6, then denticulate, and indented on submedian interval; subterminal whitish, dentate, inwardly shad¬ 
ed with fuscous; terminal line formed of dark striae; a small black dot in middle of cell and two brown 
bars at end; hindwing with the dark shading obsolete along costal area and submedian interval; dark median, 
outer, and subterminal lines visible between; a dark terminal line of striae. A Punjab species, recorded 
from Dharmsala, Lahore, Mean Meer, Allahabad. 
quinaria. L. quinaria Moore (22m). Forewing grey suffused with rufous, with fine brown dusting; lines 
rufous, diffuse, starting from black costal spots; subbasal straight; inner exeurved above and below median 
vein; median exeurved hi cell; outer, externally edged with whitish, exeurved from below costa to submedian 
fold; subterminal whitish, outwardly fuscous-shaded, denticulate; terminal line a row of slight brown 
lunules; hindwing similar, with the dark shading and lines obsolete in costal area and in submedian interval. 
Recorded from the Punjab, Sind, Bombay, and Madras. 
brunnea. L. brunnea limps. (22b). Forewing grey tinged with olive brown, thickly black-dusted; a black dot 
on costa near base; inner line waved, obscure, from a black costal dot; median very obscure, exeurved round 
end of cell, plainer below middle; outer line blackish, slightly exeurved below costa, oblique and min¬ 
utely waved to vein 4 nearly touching subterminal, incurved below 3, and again exeurved at vein 1, 
the teeth defined on outer side by slight white points; veins of terminal area streaked with black; subter¬ 
minal line obscure, angled inwards on the folds and outwards between, followed by a dark cloud beyond 
cell; a minutely waved black line just before termen; fringe mottled olive and blackish; reniform stigma 
elliptical, obscurely black edged; hindwing fuscous brown with dark terminal line; palpi, frons, tegulae, 
olivescens. and tibiae with some crimson scales intermixed; in the ab. olivescetis ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the olive 
brown tints on forewing and thorax predominate over the black. Found in S. India only, the Nilgiri and 
Palni Hills, Madras; Ceylon; Singapore; Pulo Laut; Queensland. 
pauro- L. paurograpta Btlr. (22 m). Forewing bluish grey with brown suffusion and black dusting; sub- 
grapta. basal line well marked, black, subcostally exeurved and oblique to vein 1; inner indistinctly . waved; 
median exeurved round end of cell; outer line black, with slight whitish external edging, incurved at the 
folds and strongly exeurved between; subterminal line greyish, exeurved at middle to termen; the veins of 
terminal area finely streaked with deep crimson; cellspot faint; a minutely waved blackish line just before 
termen; fringe mottled black and grey; hindwing grey suffused with brown; the fringe paler. A Queens¬ 
land species recorded from Rockhampton, Duaringa, and Brisbane. 
nannata. L. nannata Hmps. (22k). Forewing grey brown irrorated with fuscous; subbasal line black, with 
some reddish beyond it at submedian fold; inner line waved, black; a black dot in middle of cell and black 
lunule at its end, concave towards base, with a red spot between them; median line oblique to beyond cell, 
where there is a red patch beyond it, then bent inwards, with a red patch before it on submedian fold; outer 
line black edged with grey on both sides, oblique to vein 6, inangled on submedian fold; subterminal line 
black, dentate, inwardly defined by white and with red dentate marks before it; terminal lunules 
black; hindwing grey brown; the inner marginal half with the three lines dark except across subter- 
