CARB0NA. CINGALESA. ."»(J1 



brown extending to cell and from lower angle of cell obliquely to termen 

 belowapex; subbasal linedouble, minutely waved, from cost a i ovein 1 : 

 antemedial line double towards costa, minutely waved, incurved 

 in submedian interspace ; orbicular and reniform defined by black- 

 brown, the former small, round ; an indistinct dark medial line ex- 

 curvedin cell, then incurved ; postmedial line dark, slightly defined 

 by greyish on outer side, double and filled in with greyish towards 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and pro- 

 duced to slight grey streaks on the veins, cxeurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, the costa beyond it with some pale points with blackish 



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Fig. 157. — Carbona obscura, <$. \. 



marks between them ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish, angled 

 outwards at veins 7 and 4, inwards in discal fold and bent outwards 

 to tornus ; a terminal series of white points at the extremities of 

 the veins; cilia black-brown with a fine whitish line at base. 

 Hind wing dark brown with a fine whitish line at base of cilia; the 

 underside greyish brown, the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 whitish, an obscure discoidal bar and diffused curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hub. S.E. Peru, La Oroya (Ockenden), 1 J, Carahaya, 

 S. Domingo (Ockenden), 1 rf ; Brazil. Petropolis. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus CINGALESA. 



Jype. 

 Cingalesa, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 336 (1894) strigicosta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round ; antennas of female minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basil segments. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen slightly excised below apex and 

 excurved at middle; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 7, 8 and 10 stalked ; 

 1) absent ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near 

 middle. 



4304. Cingalesa strigicosta. 



Microphi/sa strigicosta, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 100, pi. 162. f. 14 

 (1893) ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 337. 



5 . Head, tegulae, and prothoracic crest black mixed with some 

 red-brown; thorax ochreous white ; pectus and legs blackish, the 

 tarsi ringed with white; abdomen ochreous suffused with brown, 

 the crests blackish. JFore wing whitish suffused with olive ochreous 



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