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the areole : 1 1 from cell ; male with a fovea in cell before middle covered by 

 a valve of scales from median nervure on upperside. 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. 



1836. PSEUDERASTRIA LARENTICA. 



Genus CEderemia. 



Type, dbi 



CEderemia, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vii 7 p. 405 (1908). . lithoplasta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned and slightly fringed 

 with hair in front, the 2nd joint hardly reaching middle of frons, the 3rd 

 short ; frons with rounded prominence with curved corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with scales 

 and hair mixed, the pro and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal 

 segments, the crest on 3rd segment large. Forewing with the tips 

 rounded, the termen slightly crenulate and somewhat excised towards 

 tornus ; 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. 



1971c. CEderemia medialis. 



QZderemia medialis, Hmpsn., Oat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vii, p. 407., pi. 

 124, f. 8 (1908). 



<S . Head and thorax white : palpi brown ; tegulse, patagia at extremi- 

 ties and metathorax suffused with red-brown ; fore and mid tibise at extre- 

 mities and the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen white tinged with 

 rufous except at base. Forewing white ; subbasal and antemedial brown 

 patches on costa ; a few antemedial black scales below cell and on inner 

 margin ; a broad medial brown band with patches of leaden grey scales on 

 it, denned by waved interrupted black lines and with traces of a minute 

 white orbicular with brown centre and black points on its inner and outer 

 edges and a minute black discoidal lunule ; the postmedial area with 

 some brown spots on costa and traces of a dentate white postmedial line 

 from costa to vein 3 with some brown suffusion on its inner side and 

 the area beyond it dark defining the subterminal line which is excurved 

 below costa and at middle ; terminal area irrorated with brown. Hind- 

 wing white with a large fuscous apical patch extending to vein 2 ; some 

 brown suffusion on inner margin and on termen towards tornus. 

 Habitat. — Beloochistan, Quetta. Exp. 26 mill. 



