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a right angle and extends over the head ; antennas setose; fore tibice densely clothed, 

 tufted beneath ; middle and hindlegs long, slender, sj^urs very slender, long. 

 Tifpe, B. abavalis. 



ECHANA ABAVALIS (Plate 177, Fig. 10, 5 ). 

 Echana abavalis. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 196 (1858), ^. 



Ochreous-brown. Male : forewing with a subfusiform costal fold above, the 

 lappet being pilose beneath ; a transverse very indistinct palo-speckled denticulated 

 submarginal line, and a marginal row of brown points : hindwing cinereous-brown, 

 with very indistinct traces of a darker streak at end of the cell, and two transverse 

 denticulated fasciis, both being more distinct on the under side. Legs with pale 

 bands. 



Expanse trr inch. 



Genus CORGATHA. 

 Corijatha, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 215 (1858). 



Wings small : forewing somewhat broad, triangular, apex almost subfalcate, 

 exterior margin oblique, slightly convex \ cell half the length ; first and second sub- 

 costals emitted close to end of the cell, second trifid, fifth fi^om end and touching 

 third; discocellular concave, radials from the ends; middle median at one-sixth 

 before end of the cell, lower at one-third ; submedian curved : hindwing short ; cell 

 nearly half the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular concave, 

 radial from lower end ; two upper medians from end of the cell ; lower about one- 

 thii^d. Body squamous ; palpi porrect, as long as breadth of the head ; second joint 

 with a thick short tuft above, third joint conical, short, tufted above ; antennre 

 minutely setose ; legs bare, rather short and slender, spurs long. 



CORGATHA ZONALIS. 



Corgatha zonalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 216 (1858). 

 Male. Pale testaceous, minutely speckled with brown scales : forewing crossed 

 by an antemedial and postmedial inwardly oblique brown-bordered whitish line, both 

 lines curved inward at the costal end ; a whitish submarginal denticulated line, and 

 brown marginal points ; a brown-speckled spot at end of the cell : hindwing with a 

 postmedial similar brown-bordered whitish line, a pale denticulated submarginal line, 

 and brown marginal points. 

 Expanse i% inch, 



CORGATHA MINORALIS. 

 Bleptina minoralis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1164 (1865). 

 Female. Whitish testaceous. Wings partly tinged with ochreous ; crossed by 

 an inwardly-obhque straight subbasal and an antemedial brown line, a curved denticu. 

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