IDyFAD.E. 449 



TfllCEiESCHUS ELATARIA. 

 Iliina clataria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxii. p. G65 (1861). 



Palo yellow. Wings with throe or four irregular transverse rosy-speckled 

 partly-confluent wavy bands, and a subiuarginal undulating lunular white line with 

 minute black-speckled borders ; exterior margin metallic black, diffused : forewing 

 also with the costal border and an oblique stripe partly across the disc metallic 

 black. Body red-speckled, thorax metallic black in front ; palpi red ; legs yellowish. 



Expanse ^V inch. 



MICR^SCHUS OBLATARIA (Plate 200, Fig. 6). 

 Ill/via ohlataria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. 1!. M. xxii. p. 665 (1861). 



Wings covered with ochreous-red speckles, interspersed with a very few minute 



black scales ; exterior border with a diffuse metallic black marginal lunular hne : 



forewing with a transverse sinuous indistinct yellowish antemedial and postmedial 



line, and a slender intercdiary line; costal border metaUic black; a slight black spot 



at end of cell : hindwing with a similar yellowish discal line. Shaft of antennas and 



vertex white; front of head and palpi reddish-ochreous ; legs yellowish. 



Expanse to inch. 



Genus ASTHENA. 



^s//r')(«, HiibDer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 310 (1Sl'5-7); Stephens, Illusf. Ilanst. IV. p. 414(lS3.j): 

 {,1. Catal. B. Lep. B. M. p. 224 (1850). Gueuee, Phal. i. p. 434. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. 

 M. xxii. p. 673. 



Acidalia (part), Treit. Dup. Boisd. H. Sch. 



Cidaria (part), Lederer. 



Forewing short, triangular; cell half the length; first subcostal at one-sixth 

 before end of cell, second from the end, quadrifid, slightly touching first above base 

 of fifth, sixth also from the end ; discocellular outwardly-oblique, concave, radial 

 from above the middle ; the middle median from angle close to end, lower at one- 

 third : hindwing short, exterior margin angular below the apex and the middle ; cell 

 half the length; costal joined to subcostal to half its length; two subcostals at half 

 beyond the cell; discocellular outwardly-oblique, concave, radial from above the 

 middle; the middle median close to end of cell, lower at one-third. Body short; 

 palpi porrect, slender, apex pointed; antennas minutely pubescent; legs slender, 

 hind tibias with two pair of short spurs. 



Type, A. luteata. 



ASTHENA SDNANDAVA (Plate 200, Fig. 4). 

 Pomasia Sunandava, Walker, Cat>il. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 657 (18G1), 2 • 

 Cainbofjia icri/erata. Walker, id. xxvi. p. 1588 (1862), ? . 



Light yellow : forewing crossed by eight silvery- washed cinereous-red more or 



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