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Genus CLETTHARA. 



Clctthara, Wulkci-, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxvii. p. 101 (1863). 



Male. Wings small : forewing rather short, and broad ; costa much arched 

 from the base, exterior margin slightly oblique, posterior margin conv^ex towards the 

 base ; cell extending beyond half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before 

 end of the cell, second from end of the cell, quadrifid ; discocellular obliquely concave, 

 bent close to upper end, radials from the angle and close to lower end ; middle median 

 fi'om near end of the cell, lower at about one-fourth ; submedian much curved : 

 hindwino triangular; in the male the costa is distorted, it being convex at the base, 

 folded upward and fringed with long hairs to the middle ; apex almost pointed, 

 exterior maro-in very oblique ; cilia long ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; disco- 

 cellular inwardly oblique ; radial and two upper medians on a footstalk beyond end 

 of the cell, lower median at about one-third before the end ; submedian and internal 

 vein much curved. Body stout, thorax very robust ; palpi suberect, smooth, second 

 joint reaching to middle of the eyes, third joint linear, longer than second ; antennte 

 rather stout, slightly pubescent towards the base in the male, basal joint thick ; 

 foreleo-s thick, fore tibia3 thickly clothed, fore tarsi short and thick; middle tibijB 

 slightly pilose ; hindlegs long, smooth ; spurs long. 



Type, C. velata. 



CLETTHAEA BASALIS (Plate 158, Fig. 7). 



Forewing pale violaceous ochreous-brown ; crossed by a medial angulated erect 

 white-bordered black line, and a postmedial elbowed similar line, the intermediate 

 area darker at the upper end and almost black at the posterior end ; reniform spot 

 minute, black ; the sub marginal area longitudinally streaked with black in the 

 middle and with, a whitish spot ; marginal dots black ; a black costal patch at base 

 of the wing : hindwing pale cinereous at the base, brown externally ; cilia edged with 

 cinereous-white. Body and legs above pale violaceous ochreous-brown. 



Expanse ttj inch. 



Genus PLOTHEIA. 



Plotheia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1108 (1857). 

 Egelcsta, Walker, id. xv. p. 1747 (1858). 



Galleriomorpha, FeKler, Wien. Eut. Mouats. vi. p. 37 (1862). 

 Othora, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. iM. xxxiii. p. 902 (1865). 



Forewing elongated, rather narrow, costa arched, apex acute, exterior margin 

 convex, very slightly oblique, posterior margin convex at the base ; cell long, narrow, 

 extending to about three-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before 

 end of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, third at one-third from base of second, and 

 fourth at one-half from base of third ; fifth curved upward from end of the cell, and 

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