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KOCXUIDiE. 



Genus CATABENA. 



Type. 



Calabena, Wlk. xxxii. 631 (1865) lineolata. 



I'urbtUa, Wlk. Char. Undesyr. Het. p. 26 (1869) lineolata. 



Adipsophanes, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. 8ci. i. p. 181 (1873)... lineolata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle ot' froas and moderately scaled, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth ; 

 ejes large, round ; autennte of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales, the tegular produced to a slight dorsal ridge and hood behind, the 

 pro- and metathorax with slight spreading crests; tibiaj fringed with long 

 hair on outer side at base ; build slender; abdomen with dorsal crest at base 

 only. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the ternien obliquely 

 curved and not crenulate ; 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. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 froiu middle of cbscucellulars, 

 almost obsolete; 6, 7 very shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



A. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. 



a. Fore wing with the reniform represented by a minute 



whitish spot esula. 



h. Fore wing willi the reniform absent. 



a'. Fore wing with the orbicular represented by a slight 



white streak defined by black ; lineolata. 



hi. Fore wing with the orbicular absent vitrina. 



B. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell terens. 



3852. Catabena esula. 



Xijlina esula, Driice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 297, pi. 28. f. 1 (1889). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grej-white ; frons black ; 

 tegulae with strong black lines at base and middle and slight 

 fuscous line near tips ; fore tibiae and mid tibiae towards base 

 black on outer side ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the 



Fig. 58. — Catabena esula, cJ. \. 



ventral surface whitish. Fore wing brown mixed with grey-white, 

 the veins and discal fold slightly streaked with black ; a slight 

 black streak below basal half of cell; antemcdial line dentate with 

 a long tooth below costa, then almost obsolete ; orbicular repre- 

 sented by a minute elongate white spot on the discal blackish 

 streak ; reniform a minute whitish spot ; postmedial line defined 

 bv whitish on outer side towards costa, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, almost obsolete, oblique below vein 4 ; 

 the interspaces of terminal area wilh slight dark streaks ; a fine- 

 waved black terminal line ; cilia brown mixed with grey. Hind- 



