CAR1IAEV, 233 



Genus CARMARA. 



Type. 



Carmara, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. G2 (1864) '• 



Zagira, Wlk. xxxv. K'>.'>7 (1866) subcervina. 



'■irognatha, Hinpsn. 111. Het. J3. M. ix. p. 154 (1893) subcervina. 



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

 vertex of head and broadly fringed with hair in trout, and behind towards 

 extremity, the 3rd joint minute and buried in the hair of 2nd joint, the 

 extremity of the palpi appearing to be rounded; frona smooth; eyes large, 

 round; antenna; of male with cilia and bristles; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales and without crests; fore tibia; of male dilated and 

 hollowed out forming a double chamber divided by a membranous wall, 

 and clothed with long hair, the mid tibia; fringed with long hair, the hind 

 tibia smoothly scaled; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins o. 4 from angle of 

 cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



5356. Carmara subcervina. 



Carmara subcervina, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 63 (1864 . 

 Z</,/ira acidaliaria, Wlk. xxxv. 1638 (1866) ; Kmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 347. 

 Gyrognatha atriceps, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 134, pi. 168. f. 10 



"(1893). 



Head blackish ; thorax and abdomen rufous, the latter with 

 slight blackish segmental lines ; fore legs blackish in front. Fore 

 wing pale brownish rufous with slight dark irroration ; a Blight 

 brown antemedial line witli black point at costa, somewhat e\- 

 ourved ; two black discoidal points ; traces of a brownish medial 



Fig. 63. — Carmara subcervina, J. 



line excurved beyond the cell; postmedial line Blight, brownish 

 faintly defined on outer side by whitish and with black point at 

 costa, oblique from costa to vein 0, then minutely dentate and 

 produced to white points on the veins, incurved below vein 1. 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; faint traces of a | 

 subterntinal line, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle : 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale brownish rufous 

 Blightly irrorated with black ; two black discoidal points : traces of 

 a minutely dentate postmedial line with white points at the veins 



