86 CATEPHID^. 



the outer margin, the lower one diffused to outer angle; a narrow black antecilial line on a 

 pink ground ; the apical portion of costa black, with some white strigse ; cilia black, with a 

 white line. Hind wing dusky brown ; a large indistinct spot at end of cell; cilia near the 

 apex whitish. Underside dusky ; fore wing whitish towards the apex and along costal and 

 outer margins ; an indistinct dark spot at end of cell. Iliud wing : basal and apical areas 

 whitish, also the apical portion of outer margin ; a large, round, very distinct spot at end of 

 cell. Antennae and palpi black, the terminal joint of latter pale. Head pale ; collar blue- 

 black and brown; thorax blue -black, with ochreous hairs on the tegulse and brown ones poste- 

 riorly ; abdomen dusky ; tibide covered with long brown and black hairs, especially those of 

 fore legs ; tarsi black and white. 



Gyrtona chalybsa. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 24.) 



Expanse ^ inch. 



Male. Head, thorax, and fore wing steely purple, the latter with two black subbasal 

 striga; from costa to subcostal nervure ; a third and fourth at middle of cell, the latter to 

 submcdian nervure ; a large rich chocolate subtriangular patch, with base resting ou costa, 

 continued as a narrow band from lower end of cell to inner margin ; a postmedial waved 

 narrow black band, outwardly bordered by chocolate-brown ; apical area chocolate, crossed 

 by two waved bands continued to inner margin ; an antecilial maculate line. Hind wing 

 and abdomen black-brown, the latter with black spot on third segment. Underside fuscous ; 

 hind wing with antemedial and medial dark bands. 



Fore wing shorter and broader than in G. hylusalis. 



Clina rufiua. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 12.) 



Expanse | inch. 



Male. Head, thorax, and fore wing pale ochreous brown : the latter with inner and 

 outer areas from lobe on inner margin to below apex rich red-brown ; a dark streak along 

 median nervure ; a waved submarginal purple-brown band ; some indistinct strigfe on the 

 costa; a fine lunulate antecilial black line. Hind wing and underside ochreous white; 

 exterior area smoky. Abdomen reddish brown. 



Allied to C. lapidarla, from which it may be distinguished by the streak along median 

 nervure, and red inner and outer areas. 



Clina basalis. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 5.) 



Expanse |^ inch. 



Male. Fore wing : basal area ochreous white, with a large black spot in its centre from 

 costa to submcdian nervure; a purplish-fuscous area to end of cell ; outer area pale olivaceous 

 brown, with a dark speck on each discoidal nervule, and a purplish-fuscous patch and a dark 

 spot near outer angle. Hind wing and underside fuscous, with purplish gloss. 



