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then almost obsolete and retracted along vein 2 to below angle of 

 cell, the area beyond it suffused with rufous, leaving a white patch 

 at apex and white specks on the inner side of the pale yellow 

 marginal band, which has a minutely waved black line on its inner 

 side. Hind wing with nearly straight antemedial black line ; a 

 discocellular spot ; a postmedial line excurved beyond cell ; the- 

 outer area suffused with rufous ; a marginal yellow band with fine- 

 black line on its inner edge. 



Bab. Sikhim. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus CATACLYSTA. 

 Cataclysta, Bilbn. Verz. p. 363 (? 1818). 



Type, C. lemnata, Schiff., from Europe. 



Mange. Universally distributed. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and 

 slightly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd well developed and 

 acuminate; maxillary palpi small and filiform; frons rounded; 

 antenna annulated with rings at the joints ; legs long, slender, 

 the spurs long and nearly equal. Tore wing with veins 3, 4, 5- 

 from angle of cell ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9, 10. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, or stalked. 



SECT. I. Fore tarsi of male naked ; hind wing with vein 7 

 anastomosing with 8. 



4646. Cataclysta angulata, Moore^Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 300, pi. 181, fig. 12 - f 



C. $ S. no. 4415. 



c? . Fulvous yellow ; some white on vertex of head and thorax. 

 Fore wing with black subbasal and antemedial spots on costa with 

 obscure lines arising from them ; a postmedial white band curved 

 and running as a fascia along median nervure to base, joined by 

 two white fasciae from upper angle of cell, and with its inner edge 

 defined by fuscous suffusion and a black speck on costa ; a sub- 

 marginal curved white band with black line on its outer edge ; 

 a black marginal line. Hind wing with traces of a diffused fuscous 

 antemedial band ; a series of six small black spots close to the 

 margin, inwardly defined by white. 



Bab. Ceylon. Exp. 14 millim. 



4647. Cataclysta craesusalis, Wlk. xvii, p. 449. 

 Cataclysta trigonalis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 304. 



cf. Dusky fulvous. Fore wing with large white triangular 

 postmedial mark on costa, with its apex on vein 2 ; a white band 

 inside the dark-edged orange marginal band ; a marginal series of 

 dark specks. Hind wing with the basal third pale fulvous ; the 

 outer two-thirds orange with a black line on its inner edge ; a 

 eubmarginal minutely waved dark line with pale marks on its 



