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Mi^jouis B. Prout on the 
226. Catascia carnea (Prout), nov. sp. 
(Plate XLVIII, fig. 24.) 
46-50 ram. Face roumled-promiiient; palpus quite moderate, 
rather stout; tongue well developed ; antenna rather long, with 
short ciliation. Legs and abdomen slender. Head, body, wings, 
etc., rather uniform flesh-colour, wings irrorated witli darker scales, 
slightly paler beneath. Forewing with termen rather more oblique 
than is typical for the genus (shaped much as in narrow-winged s 
of C. andereggaria, Lah., of Europe) ; lines grey, indicated very 
faintly except on veins, where they are made rather conspicuous by 
dark spots ; antemedian from costa at about one-fourth, inbent about 
SM2; postmeJian from costa at about 3 mm. from apex, slightly 
oblique inwards to E^, outbent to R^, deeply incurved between 
and SM^, and reaching inner margin at about two-thirds ; cell-spot 
distinct, but small; no terminal line. Ilindwing somewhat paler 
in cell and costally, without markings. Underside without markings. 
Puente del Inca, April 12, 1904 (W. M. Bayne), type in 
coll. L. B. Prout; a second ^ from same locality, April 
1902 (A. F. Bayne), in coll. L. B. Prout; two from same 
locality in coll. A. F. Bayne. 
This interesting insect is probably a true Catascia, by 
which name I understand Lederer’s section C of Gnophos 
{mde Ent. Kec., xvi, 121). The contour of the distal 
margin of both wings is very closely that of this group, the 
frons, though less strongly protuberant than in some of 
them, agrees fairly well with others, while several other 
characters, together with the general facies and the 
mountain habitat, lend some further support to the generic 
position here suggested; it would fall into Lederer’s first 
subsection, with C. myrtillata, Thunb., on account of the 
simply ciliated ^ antenna; the ^ is still unknown. Only 
the venation of the forewing is not that of typical Catascia ; 
SC^ anastomoses shortly with C, SC^ (arising from cell) 
shortly with SC\ and subsequently at a point (or in one 
specimen by a short connective bar) with SC^‘^; in all the 
European Catascia which I have examined, SC“ is free 
from SC^,* and except in opcraria, Hiib., ancj andereggaria, 
Lah., SC^ is also free from C. The inconstancy of the sub- 
costals in many Boarmiids is, however, matter of common 
knowledge. 
* But I find that Meyrick, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1892, 136, has 
recorded eight myrtilldta {ohf'dscaria) with these veins not tree, and 
(page 138) one iveni witli triple anastomosis as in carnea. 
