THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 657 



Type. 



Cirrhia, Hiibn. Verz., p. 234 (1827) . . . . . . citrago. 



Citria, Hiibn. Verz. ; p. 234 (1827) . . . . . . fulvago. 



Mellinia, Hiibn. Verz., p. 234 (1827) . . . . . . palleago. 



Xanthia, Hiibn. Tent, ined . . . . . . . . fulvago. 



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

 with hair in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded; 

 antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate or ciliated ; head and 

 thorax clothed with hair only, the prothorax with ridge-like crest ; abdo- 

 men with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without 

 crests. Forewing with the apex produced and acute, the termen excurv- 

 ed at middle, then oblique ; 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 shortly stalked or from angle ; 8 anastomo- 

 sing with cell near base only. 



Sect. II (Cosmia). — Antennse of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing with the postmedial line double. 



a. Forewing with the postmedial line minutely den- 



tate . . . . . . . . . . gilvago. 



b. Forewing with the postmedial line not dentate . . rectilineata. 



B. Forewing with the postmedial line single. 



a. Forewing with the postmedial line angled out- 



wards below costa and excurved at middle. 

 a 1 . Forewing with the ground colour yellow. 

 d z Forewing without two white spots on lower 



extremity of reniform . . . . melonina. 



b 2 Forewing with two white spots on lower ex- 

 tremity of reniform . . . . . . distigmata. 



b l Forewing with the ground colour ochreous suffus- 

 ed with reddish and irrorated with brown. . albosignata. 



b. Forewing with the postmedial line excurved from 



costa to vein 6, then oblique . . . . approximates. 



1595. COSMIA GILVAGO. 



1596. COSMIA RECTILINEATA. 

 1593. COSMIA MELONINA. 



1593a. Cosmia distigmata, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vi. ; p. 509, 

 pi. 107, f. 19 (1906). 



$ . Head and thorax orange-yellow largely mixed with red ; tegulee 

 edged with brown behind ; abdomen reddish ochreous dorsally suffused 

 with brown. Forewing orange-yellow suffused and irrorated with red, the 

 veins brown ; a curved red subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line excurved below costa, bent inwards in cell, angled outwards 



