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Fuscous ; the thorax and fore wing suffused with olive or white. 

 Eore wing with indistinct subbasal and waved antemedial lines ; 

 traces of orbicular, reniform, and claviform spots ; a postmedial 

 double waved line slightly excurved beyond cell; traces of an 

 irregular submarginal line ; a marginal series of black specks. 

 Hind wing pure white ; the inner margin suffused with fuscous ; 

 the outer half of wing black, with white patches at apex and anal 

 angle. Underside of fore wing with the basal two thirds white, 

 with spot at end of cell. 



In acronyctoides the suffusion is white, the reniform and a patch 

 above it more or less white ; in olivescens the suffusion is olive ; in 

 discistriga from Africa and a Sikhim specimen the white area of 

 the hind wing is reduced, and in this and the Australian form the 

 white patches at apex and anal angle are often obsolete. In a 

 form from Dharmsala the colour is blackish without olive or grey 

 suffusion, the postmedial line of fore wing more angled beyond 

 cell, and with no white patches at apex and anal angle of hind 

 wing. 



Hardly separable from the European leucomelas, Linn. 



Hcih. W. and S. Africa ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Andamans ; Java ; Australia. Exp. 40 millim. 



2463. Catephia dulcistriga, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1811. 

 Anophia longinquua, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 233. 



Differs from acronyctoides in the fore wing being shorter and 

 broader, the thorax and fore wing variegated with pale brown ; the 

 reniform spot whitish. Hind wing with the white conOned to a 

 round patch at end of cell ; the cilia white at apex and anal angle. 



Hob. S. Africa ; Sikhim ; Rangoon. Exp. 25-30 millim. 



2464. Catephia diphtheroides, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 118, pi. 159, 



fig. 6 ; C.$S. no. 2353. 



. Head and thorax silvery grey variegated with fuscous and 

 black ; the abdomen fuscous. Eore wing silvery grey ; subbasal, 

 antemedial, and postmedial waved black lines and dentate sub- 

 marginal line ; indistinct antemedial, medial, and postmedial sub- 

 sidiary lines ; the orbicular, reniform, and claviform grey spots 

 with black outlines ; a marginal series of black specks. Hind wing 

 with the base white ; the inner area and outer half fuscous, with 

 white patches at apex and anal angle. 



Hal. Ceylon. Exp. 40 millim. 



C. Male with lateral tufts of hair from near base of abdomen and 

 immensely developed anal tufts ; legs fringed with long hair, 

 but without tufts ; antennce moderately ciliated ; inner margin 

 of hind wing with large tufts of hair. 



2465. Catephia thricophora, n. sp. 



cT . Palpi purplish ; vertex of head, collar, and patagia dark 

 green ; thorax and abdomen ochreous brown, the latter with the 



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