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In appearance quite similar to Huzanthis amphimnesta Meyrick, 
from Kumaon, but the median fascia of caesiata is broader and the 
tricolored hindwing immediately distinguishes the latter from the 
former. In female genitalia caesiata is nearest the North American 
C. hospes Walsingham. 
Cochylis serena, new species 
Figure 10; PLats 4 (ria. 6) 
Alar expanse 15-17 mm. 
Labial palpus white; second segment irrorate with fuscous on 
outer side; third segment suffused fuscous apically. Antenna grayish 
fuscous; basal fifth black dorsally; scape white. Head white with 
some gray scaling posterolaterally. Thorax gray, mixed with fuscous 
and leaden-metallic scales; tegula whitish to gray mixed with fuscous. 
Forewing ground color white; basal three-fifths fuscous mixed with 
leaden gray and tawny; in some specimens the basal dark area becomes 
attenuated so that dorsum is almost wholly white; on costal edge of 
cell, near middle of wing, two black spots and a third black spot 
beyond end of cell; from outer fifth of costa a crescentic, gray fascia 
to vein 4 at termen; on termen from vein 4 to vein 2 a narrow, tawny, 
transverse fascia; apical sixth of wing marked with several irregular 
strigulae and spots of mixed gray, fuscous and tawny; underside 
fuscous except a costal area at two-thirds; cilia ochraceous buff with 
a strong gray basal line around apex and termen. Hindwing sordid 
white mottled with grayish fuscous in male; in female grayish fuscous, 
the darker mottling ill-defined; cilia ocherous white with gray sub- 
basal line. Foreleg ocherous white; femur and tibia blackish fuscous 
on outer side; tarsal segments broadly banded blackish fuscous; 
midleg similar but not so strongly marked; hindleg ocherous white 
lightly suffused and irrorate with fuscous. Abdomen grayish fuscous 
dorsally somewhat paler ventrally; anal tuft ocherous white. 
Male genitalia slide JFGC no. 11659. Harpe broad, tapering to a 
bluntly pointed cucullus. Transtilla with flattened dentate median 
process. Socii fleshy lobes. Vinculum narrow, lateral elements not 
coalesced. Tegumen a moderately narrow band. Anellus a broad 
sclerotized saucer-shaped plate. Aedeagus stout, acutely pointed; 
vesica armed with a single stout cornutus. 
Female genitalia slide JFGC no. 11660. Ostium broad, anterior 
edge concave. Antrum moderately sclerotized. Inception of ductus 
seminalis ventrally from posterior third of bursa copulatrix; accessory 
bursa extending slightly beyond anterior end of bursa copulatrix. 
Ductus bursae short, broad with sclerotized ring near middle. Bursa 
copulatrix membraneous except an irregular area posteriorly. 
Holotype: U.S. National Museum No. 69754. 
