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Apamea viriata, Swinh., P. Z. S. 1885, p. 450. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black or fuscous brown ; tegular 



with medial black 

 line ; tarsi with 

 ochreous rings . 

 abdomen ochre- 

 ous brown. Fore- 

 wing fuscous 

 brown, the area 

 Craterestra media. $ \. below the cell, 



before the antemedial line and the postmedial area except towards costa 

 ochreous more or less tinged with brown ; a waved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by ochreous on inner side, waved,, 

 strongly angled outwards above inner margin : clavif orm moderate, defined by 

 black and with some blackish between it and postmedial line ; orbicular axel 

 reniform defined by black, the former round ; an indistinct waved medial line ; 

 postmedial line dentate, indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line pale, defined on inner side by a series 

 of slight dentate rufous marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at 

 veins 4*3, the area beyond it dark except at apex ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia intersected with rufous. Hindwing white or ochreous white, the 

 veins and terminal area more or less tinged with fuscous ;-the under side with 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a postmedial series of 

 slight dark streaks on the veins. 



Habitat. — Mashonaland, Salisbury ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpore, Dharmsala, 

 Jubbulpore, Manpuri ; Bombay, Poona ; Canara ; Nilgiris ; Burma, Man- 

 dalay, Thayetmyo. Exp. 34-36, mill. 



1935. Oraterestra bifascta. 



1936. Craterestra albicosta. 



1679. Craterestra subterminata. Hmpsn. Cat. Lep^ Phal., B. M., V., 

 p. 22, pi. 78, f, 31(1905). 



$ . Head and thorax bronwish grey ; tegulae with black medial line ; tarsi? 

 fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown. Forewing grey tinged with 

 reddish-brown ; the postmedial area except towards costa, the area below the 

 cell from before middle, and the inner margin from base suffused with fuscous ~ 

 an ill-defined black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by a 

 blackish mark below costa ; antemedial line indistinct, dentate, oblique ; clavi- 

 form absent ; orbicular very indistinct, rather elongate ; reniform with brown 

 and fuscous centre and greyish annulus, somewhat angled inwards on mediai> 

 nervure ; postmedial line indistinct, double, filled in with greyish, bent 

 outwards below costa excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points 

 on costa beyond it ; subterminal line pale, diffused, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of points ; cilia whitish inter- 

 sected with brown. Hindwing whitish tinged with brown ; the veins and 



