446 K0CTUID-3E. 



libiiB slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fora 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell neap base only. 



4140. Cramtodes talidiformis. 



Cramhodes talidiformis, Guen. JVoct. ii. p. 152 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 194. 

 Carvaiwa conjimgejis, Wlk. xv. 1661 (1858). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi broAvn 

 at extremity ; frons with lateral brown bars ; antennae brown; tegulae 

 with black line near upper edge ; vertex of thorax with some 

 black scales ; fore tibise banded with brown, the tarsi brown with 

 pale rings ; abdomen pale ochreous slightly tinged with brown. 

 Eore wing ochreous tinged in parts with rufous, the costal area 

 suffused with black-brown to near apex, the veins streaked with 

 brown ; a red-brown streak in cell ; the basal half of submedian 

 fold defined on each side by red-brown streaks ; antemedial line 

 double, the inner line red-brown, the outer blackish, oblique and 

 slightly sinuous to submedian fold near postmedial line, then very 

 strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner 

 margin ; reniform a narrow white bar incompletely defined by 

 black ; postmedial line black, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then reduced to black points on the veins to just beyond lower 

 angle of cell, then dentate with double black points on the veins 



Fig. 125. — Crambodes ialidifo7")ms, <?. \. 



beyond it, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 defined by rufous suffusion on inner side and by obliquely placed 

 black streaks above and below vein 6, arising from termen just 

 below apex, dentate, oblique to discal fold, angled outwards at 

 veins 4, 3 and inwards in submedian fold and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; a rufous shade at middle of termen and a terminal series 

 of small black spots ; cilia chequered rufous and whitish. Hind 

 wing white, the terminal area slightly^ tinged with rufous, in female 

 more uniformly tinged with rufous, the extremity of median nervure 

 and base of vein 2 with slight dark streaks ; a faint discoidal 

 striga ; a terminal series of black points from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside with the costal area suffused and irrorated with red- 

 brown, a slight discoidal lunule and faint postmedial line from costa 

 to vein 6 and points on veins 4, 3. 



