CRATERESTEA. 17 



orbicular and reniform moderate, with fuscous centres defined by- 

 black, the former round ; traces of a medial line ; postmedial line 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, escurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 

 pale, slightly defined by fuscous, minutely waved, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, slightly dentate on veins 4, 3, and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and termen tinged with brown ; some dark terminal 

 points : the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 brown, a small black discoidal spot. 



Hah. SiND, Karachi (Swinhoe), 2 c? , 1 $ , type. Ex2). 30-32 

 miUim. 



Genus CRATERESTRA, nov. 



Type, C. hicina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair 

 in front, the 3rd moderate, oblique ; frons with truncate, conical, corneous 

 prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennte 

 ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with scales and hair, the pro- and meta- 

 thorax with spreading crests; tibijE fringed with rather long hair; abdomen 

 with dorsal series of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with veins 

 3 and .'i from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the medial area darker than the ground- 



colour. 

 a. Fore wing with the pale postmedial area extending to inner 



side of the postmedial line and obscuring the reniform . lucina. 

 h. Fore wing with the pale postmedial area not extending to 

 inner side of the postmedial line. 

 o}. Fore wing with whitish annuli to the stigmata. 



d^. Fore wing with subterminal series of wliite points... niveopicta. 

 b"^. Fore wing without subterminal series of white 



points terranea. 



h^. Fore wing without whitish annuli to stigmata media. 



B. Fore wing with the medial area not darker than the 



ground-colour. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular oblique ; veins 4, 3 defined 



by dentate whitish marks extending to near termen. 



«'. Fore wing with the ground-colour brownish ... hoplifes. 



fA. Fore wing with the ground-colour whitish yacima. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular round ; veins 4, 3 nut 



defined by dentate white marks. 

 a'. Fore wing with the orbicular indistinct. 

 a^. Fore wing with the costal area wiiiti.sh. 



a^. Fore wing with the inner area whitish bifaxcia. 



P. Fore wing with the inner area not whitish albicoata. 



b'^. Fore wing with the costal area not whitisli subterminata. 



h^. Fore wing with the orbicular well-defined. 



a^. Fore wing without rufous streaks in discal and 

 submedian folds. 

 a*. Fore wing with the inner and postmedial areas 



pale brown semifusca. 



b^. Fore wing with the inner and postmedial areas 



concolorous suhrelata. 



h'^. Fore wing with rufous streaks in discal and sub- 

 median folds dejhiiens. 



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