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Head whitish ; thorax and abdomen whitish tinged with pale ochreous 



^^>. y brown ; tarsi tinged 



=7^-^ Nvy ^ ^$^ A ^---— i ^"^^ with fuscous. Fore- 



^•i'-w^O^V ^^""^^--^y jr wing whitish, tinged 



^^-^z2\f,Jj ^-^_ .^ ; ~ :: H£$ w ^ P a e ocnreous 



'^ ' ivS (vvf^^r) J*< *^ """^HBS brown and irrorated 



:jf \\ \>^ e * 'W§^k with fuscous : sub- 



^ % basal line double 



Discesira arenaria. $ \. waved, from costa 



to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; claviform moderate, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform moderate, with fuscous centres 

 defined by black, the former round ; traces of a medial line ; postmedial line 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale, slightly defined by 

 fuscous, minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 7, slightly dentate at veins 

 4*3 and bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of small black lunules, 

 Hindwing white, the veins and termen tinged with brown ; some dark terminal 

 points; the under side with the costa slightly irrorated with brown, a small 

 "black discoidial point 



Habitat — Sind, Karachi. Exp. 30-32, mill. 



Genus Craterestra. 



Type. 



Craterestra. Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal., B.M., V., p. 17 (1905) ... lucina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair 



in front, the 3rd moderate, oblique ; frons with truncate conical corneous 



prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae 



ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with scales and hair, the pro- and meta- 



thorax with spreading crests ; tibiae fringed with rather long hair ; abdomen 



with dorsal series of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Forewing with veins 



3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 



with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3*4 from angle 



of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6'7 from upper angle ; 



• 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



.A. Forewing with the medial area darker than ground 



colour ... media. 



B. Forewing with the medial area not darker than ground 



colour. 



a. Forewing w r ith the costal area whitish. 



a 1 . Forewing with the inner area whitish bifascia. 



6 l . Forewing with the inner area not whitish albicosta. 



b. Forewing with the costal area not whitish subterminata. 



1679c?. Craterestra media. Wife, XI. 756 (1857) ; Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal., 



B. M., V., p. 19, pi. 78, f. 28. 



Apamei latifasciata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 345. 



