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Larvii c.yliiRlriciil, sumewliat tajieriiij,' in IVonr, witli a dorso-lateral Hue, or 

 a conijilL'te series of dorso-lateral ocelli, which are sometimes vestigial. — Food- 

 j)laiits : Kiiphorbiaceae ; Rubiaceue ; etc. 



Pupa: tongiie-case feebly prominent basally in most species, more enlarged 

 in liiieatu, not keeled ; abdomen pnnctnred and rugate, without s]iine-likc 

 tubercles ; crcmaster liifid at tip. 



Hub. A cosmopolitan genus, Imt absent from the Indo-Malayan and Pajiiiau 

 countries, Australia excepted. 



Thirteen sjiecies. i 



Key to tlie species : 



a. Pnlvillns present b. 



Pulvillus vestigial, represented by a very 



small process or flap . . . . . . h. 



I). Veins traversing brown band of forewing 



pale ; pale band sharply defined . . 083. (\ Ihicnta. 

 As liefore, but pale band not sharjdy defined 



proximally ...... ()S4. ('. cdverlpj/i. 



Veins not pale ........ c. 



c. Abdomen with two sharjily marked black 



sido-i)atches ...... 



Abdomen with more tlian two l)lac]i: side- 

 patches, sometimes not sharply marked 



d. Costal area of forewing, above, brown 



from base to apex, sharply marlced 

 Costal area of forewing pale, with a large 



patcli beyond apex of cell, a sharply 



defined broad basal band 

 No sharply marked costal area, basal band 



vestigial, the whole wing shaded with 



brown ....... 



e. A sharply marked brown costal area 



from base to apex, incised at the 

 veins ....... 



No sharply marked brown costal area, 

 from base to apex .... 



/. Underside of wings orange-chrome from 



base to disc 



Underside of wings grey and brown, with 

 a more or less obvious red tint 

 (j. Orange-chrome area of hindwing above 

 extending to base ..... 



Hindwing black from base to end of cell . 



//. Forewing, above, nnicolorous, with barely 



a trace of markings .... 



Fiirewing, above, with brown discal 



liand ......... i. 



i. JUack or brown basal patch of forewing, 



above, not extending to costa . . , (j^2. C. hippophacs. 



I 



. <r. 



. e. 

 r;7.3. C. ijdUii. 



079. C. nicaca. 



076. C. biynttaf(i. 



077. C. cuphorhiarnm. 



■/■ 

 ■ 9- 

 678. C. annei. 



072. V. calida. 



073. C. wilnom. 



681. C. irspert/lio. 



