CRATERESTRA. 



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1145. Craterestra yacima. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 30.) 



Mamestra yakima. Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 4G4 (1900) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



^ . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous brown and 

 black ; antennae ringed with white ; tegulas with ill-defined black 

 line near upper edge; patagia with black scales near upper edge; 

 tarsi ringed with wdiite ; abdomen whitish mixed with reddish 

 brown and black. Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; an iU-defined black streak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 and antemedial lines represented by double black stri* from 

 costa ; elaviform well-developed, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform indistinctly defined by black, the former somewhat 

 oblique elliptical, the latter with its lower part filled in with 

 fuscous ; postmedial line very indistinct, with slight black streaks 

 on the veins beyond it, bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 5, some white points on costa beyond it ; subterminal 

 line very indistinct, whitish defined by obscure dentate dark marks 

 on inner side and the area beyond it darker, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules; cilia chequered white and fuscous. Hind wing pure 

 white, the terminal area suff'used with fuscous from apex to vein 2 ; 

 the underside with terminal series of black lunules. 



Hah. U.S.A., Washington, Utah, 1 d . Eccp. 34 millim. 



1140. Craterestra bifascia. 



Axylia bifascia, Hmpsn. 111. Ilet. B. M. ix. p. 91, pi. IGl. f. 6 (1893) ; id. 

 kothslud. ii. p. -ISl. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous, sometimes with some ochreous on 

 vertex of head and metathorax ; abdomen ochreous, ventrally 

 fuscons except at extremity. Fore wing ochreous tinged with 

 rufous, and slightly irrorated with brown ; a fuscous fascia extending 

 from discal to submedian fold and from base to termen, towards 

 which it expands to below apex ; the veins whitish except on the 

 dark area ; a small black discoidal spot and white point at lower 

 angle of cell ; the antemedial line represented by a striga at inner 

 margin ; a minutely waved postmedial line excurved from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then oblique ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing ochreoiis brown tinged with fuscous ; the underside 

 paler, irrorated with brown on costal and terminal areas, a discoidal 

 lunule, curved postmedial line, and terminal series of black points. 



llah. Ceylon, I'undaloya {Green), 3 S , type. Exp. 32 millim. 



1147. Craterestra albicosta. 



Axylia alhicosta, Hinpsii. 111. Ilet. B. M. viii. p. 70, pi. 144. f. 20 (1891). 

 Leucania proleuca, Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. '281 (1894). 



Head and thorax fuscous, sometimes with some ochreous on 

 vertex of head and base of tegulce ; abdomen ochreous, ventrally 



