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fuscous brown with a fine white line at base. Hind wing pale 

 purplish rufous slightly mixed with whitish; a diffused oblique 

 dark medial line; a faint dark postmedial line with series of 

 white points on its outer edge, excurved at middle and inner 

 margin ; subterminal line represented by a few black scales ; cilia 

 red-brown with fine white lines at base and tips; the underside 

 white tinged with purplish and sparsely irrorated with black ; a 

 black discoidal striga and diffused sinuous postmedial line. 

 Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh), 1 J type. Exp. 18 niillim. 



5430. Corgatha nitens. 



Celeopsychc nitens, Butl. HI. Het. B. M. iii. p. 68, pi. 57. f. 10 (1879). 

 mtha fasciola, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 512. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous ; vertex of head and 

 shaft of autennae towards base pure white more or less tinged with 

 purplish pink ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 ochreous. Fore wing pale rufous more or less tinged with 

 purplish pink; an antemedial black point on costa with traces 

 of an inwardly oblique line from it to inner margin ; a black 

 discoidal point; an oblique blackish shade from discal fold beyond 

 the cell to middle of inner margin ; postmedial line slight, black, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique, some whitish points 

 with slight black streaks before them beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line slight, whitish, denned on inner side by black 

 suffusion, strong between veins 7 and 3, angled outwards at 

 veins 4, 3 and incurved towards costa and inner margin ; terminal 

 area irrorated with black ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing yellowish rufous 

 more or less tinged with purplish pink ; a diffused oblique fuscous 

 medial line; postmedial line slight, dark, angled outwards at 

 vein 3 ; a slight brown terminal line ; the underside ochreous 

 white irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal point and traces of 

 a postmedial line. 



ilab. Japan, Sakata (Leech), 1 S type fasciola, Tokio (Feni 

 1 c? , Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer), 1 d,l $ type ; C. Ciiixa, Shanghai 

 {Pryer), 1 J, Kiukiang (Pryer), 1 <$ . Exp. 22 millim. 



*5437. Corgatha excisa. (Plate CLVII. fig. 12.) 



Corgatha excisa, Huipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 348 (1894). 



J . Head and tegula: rufous ; thorax and abdomen grey irrorated 

 with black; fore legs rufous in front. Fore wing grey tinged with 

 rufutis and irrorated with black, the veins of terminal half with 

 pale streaks ; antemedial line pale slightly denned on each side 

 by brown, angled outwards below costa, then oblique ; a round 

 blackish discoidal spot ; postmedial line pale slightly defined on 

 each side by brown, excurved below costa. then oblique ; sub- 



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