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Gen. I. C o K YM ic A. 



Corymica Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., xx., p. 230; Hmps., Moths 

 Ind., iii., p. 185. 



Tongue well-developed. Palpi rather long, slender, porrect; 

 terminal joint moderately short, obtuse. Antennae of $ simple, 

 minutely ciliated. Thorax and abdomen not crested; thorax not 

 hairy beneath. Femora glabrous ; posterior tibiie of ^ not 

 dilated. Forewings with a very large fovea developed both on 

 upper and lower surfaces; 10 and 11 coincident and anastomosing 

 with 12. Hind wings with costa excised beyond middle; neura- 

 tion normal. 



Type C. ornearia Wlk. An isolated genus, peculiar in the 

 exaggerated development of the fovea. 



1. Corymica arnearia. 



Corymica arnearia Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., xx., p. 231; Hmps., 

 Moths Ind., iii., p. 185. 



(J. 16 mm. Head bright yellow, posteriorly brownish; face 

 bright yellow, with a brown transverse bar below middle. Palpi 

 1|; brown, towards base yellow. Antenna? whitish, towards 

 base brown. Thorax yellow, with a brown transverse bar on 

 anterior edge. Abdomen yellow, with two or three brown 

 median dorsal spots on basal segments, and a median whitish 

 suffusion. Legs yellow ; anterior and middle femora brown; 

 apices of tibiae and first tarsal joints brown. Forewings tri- 

 angular, costa straight from near base almost to apex, apex 

 acute, termen slightly bowed, oblique, finely wavy : bright 

 yellow, with a few brown strigulse, most numerous on costa; basal 

 fifth of costa white; a large sub-basal fovea edged posteriorly 

 with brown, its anterior part scaleless and translucent; a brown 

 erect mark on | dorsum, and a similar smaller mark midway 

 between it and tornus; a triangular apical blotch, narrow on 

 costa but extending to below middle of termen; cilia white, 

 barred with brownish. Hind wings similar but without dorsal 

 marks and apical blotch. Underside as upper. 



N.Q.: Kuranda, near Cairns, in May; one specimen in Coll. 

 Lyell, received from .Mr. F. P. Dodd. Also from Borneo and 

 India. 



