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at one-fourth before the end; submedian and internal vein curved. Body very stout, 

 abdomen conical ; palpi ascending, second joint reaching to vertix, flattened in front 

 and at the side, roughly squamose, third joint lanceolate, about half length of the 

 second ; antennjB stout, simple ; legs stout, most densely clothed with thick hairy 

 scales, spurs long. (F. iijnlta.) 



VARNIA TAPROBANA (Plate 151, Fig. 7). 



Dusky greyish-ferruginous ; forewing crossed by a basal, a curved medial, and 

 a discal greyish-black band, the discal band dilated at the costal end ; a similar 

 coloured oblique streak from the posterior angle and another below the apex ; 

 between all the bands and the streaks are slender indistinct blackish sinuous lines : 

 hiudwing crossed by several indistinct blackish sinuous lines ; a semi-diaphanous 

 white geminated spot at end of the cell. Body, palpi, and legs ferruginous-brown. 



Expanse ^ to jo inch. 



Genus CHLUMETIA. 

 A'm-haba* Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 813 (1863). 

 CIdumetia, Walker, id. xxxiv. p. 1271 (1865). 



Wings small : forewing elongated, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, exterior 

 margin slightly oblique and convex ; cell disposed towards the middle of the wing, 

 extending to half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half, second at one-sixth, 

 trifid, fifth from end of the cell and slightly touching third close to its base ; disco- 

 cellular slender, concave, radials from upper and lower end ; two upper medians from 

 end of the cell, lower at one-fifth ; submedian slightly recurved : hindwing short, 

 narrow, exterior margin convex ; cell extending to one-third the length ; two sub- 

 costals from end of the cell ; discocellular slender, concave, radial from lower end ; 

 two upper medians from extreme end of the cell, lower at one-third ; submedian and 

 internal vein recurved. Body short, stout, thorax and abdomen crested ; palpi stout, 

 obliquely ascending, second joint laxly squamose, laterally widened in front, third 

 joint short, conical ; antennae stout, minutely pubescent ; legs stout, squamose, 

 middle and hind spurs very long. 



CHLUMETIA TRANSVERSA (Plate 151, Fig. 3). 

 Nachaba transversa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 114 (1863). 

 Chlumetia guttiventris, Walker, id. xxxiv. p. 1271 (1865). 



Forewing violaceous-grey; crossed by two indistinct black-speckled grey- 

 bordered basal, subbasal, medial, and discal waved lines, an outer discal denticulated 



Used by Walker in 1859 for a genus of Lepidoptera (see Catal. xix. p. 834). 



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