CllASPEDIA.— PSEUDASTHENA. 123 



Craspedia linearis. (Plate CLIII. fig. 13.) 



Expanse l^\^ inch. 



Male. Ochreous. Fore wing witli slightly waved autcmedial transverse brown line. 

 Both wings with a dark dot at end of cell; an indistinct slightly waved band from costa of 

 fore wing just beyond middle to inner margin of hind wing, somewhat darker than the 

 ground-colour, and bent outwards below costa of fore wing and inwards round the dot at 

 end of cell of hind wing ; a fine waved transverse postmedial brown line across both wings, 

 elbowed outward below costa of fore wing ; faint traces of two submarginal lunulate bands ; 

 a dark autecilial line. Underside paler ; fore wing without antemedial line. 



Female paler. 



Allied to C. addictaria, but larger and without the dark patches outside the postmedial 

 line on fore wing. 



Craspedia latimarginaria. (Plate CLIII. fig. 6.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Female. Basal area whitish, suffused with brownish grey. Fore wing with an indistinct 

 pale brown, nearly straight, and inwardly-oblique antemedial band ; both wings with a 

 similar medial band and well-marked brown postmedial band, the area beyond it brownish 

 grey. Hind wing with ochreous-brown dot at end of cell ; a dark grey antecilial line. 

 Underside white, slightly suft'used with fuscous, especially the outer marginal area of fore 

 wing ; no antemedial band to fore wing. 



Pseudasthena permntans. (Plate CLIII. figs. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Both sexes extremely variable in colour. 



Male. Bright yellow, with darker yellow patches ; the costa suffused and blotched with 

 purple, especially one large blotch towards apex. Hind wing with a deep red patch, then a 

 large purple blotch on inner margin near base. Other specimens with the costa of fore wing 

 and basal and outer areas of both wings thickly sjDotted with purplish pink, leaving an ill- 

 defined medial yellow band. 



Female. Either yellow almost wholly suffused with purplish pink, or deep red mostly 

 suffused wdth purple, or almost wholly purple-brown ; the ground-colour always coming to 

 points at apex, centre of outer margin, and exterior angle of each wing, leaving two bright 

 yellow lunulate marginal patches on each wing, one from apex to centre, the other from 

 centre to exterior angle, and inwardly bounded by a red line ; fore wing with a dark spot at 

 end of cell; hind wing with a white one. 



Underside of both sexes paler. Shaft of antennae pink; pectination in male brownish. 



Allied to P. grataria. 



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