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male is brown, slightly dusted with grey, with many zig-zag 

 darker lines, of which the most distinct are the first transverse line 

 and the sub-terminal lines. The orbicular stigma consists of a 

 small and rather indistinct brown spot ; the reniform stigma is 

 black, and somewhat dusted with blue below, where it throws 

 off a projection like the stalk of a one-sided mushroom. It is 

 enclosed by an inner tawny and an outer brown outline. 

 There are two sub-terminal lines, rather faintly indicated, and 

 spotted with buff outside. The hind-wings have fewer lines, 

 but towards the anal angle is a large black outline, rounded 

 above, and tridentate beneath ; within, it is purplish-brown, 

 lighter above ; the prongs are bordered by buff arches, the 

 outermost filled up with blackish, and the innermost dusted 

 with buff. The female is much paler, owing to its being more 

 strongly dusted with grey, and there is a moderately broad grey 

 or bluish-white band on all the wings, on which stands the 

 black zig-zag second transverse line. 



FAMILY OMMATOPHORID^:. 



This family, like the last, includes species of considerable 

 size, though most of them are much smaller than the Erebidce. 

 They are dark-coloured moths, generally with transverse white 

 markings, and the reniform stigma of the fore-wings is 

 represented by a conspicuous outline. 



GENUS CRISHNA. 



Patula, Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 177 (1852) 

 Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 1299 (1858), 

 nom prtzocc. 



This genus includes two or three closely-allied species or 

 varieties, which inhabit India, Burma, China, Ceylon, Africa 

 and Madagascar. They have broad dentated wings, with the 



