CARMARA, 



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Genus CARMARA. 



Type. 



Carmara, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 62 (1864) suhcervina. 



Zagira, Wlk. xxxv. 1637 (1866) suhcervina. 



Gyrognatha, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 134 (1893) suhcervina. 



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

 vertex of head and broadly fringed with hair ia front, and behind towards 

 extremity, the 3rd joint minute and birried in the hair of 2nd joint, the 

 extremity of the palpi appearing to be rounded ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round; antennee of male with cilia and bristles; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales and without crests ; fore tibiae of male dilated and 

 hollowed out forining a double chamber divided by a membranous wall, 

 and clothed with long hair, the mid tibia fringed with long hair, the hind 

 tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of ceil; 6 from upper angle ; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 

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

 cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

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



5356. Carmara suhcervina. 



Carmara suhcervina, Wit. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 63 (1864^. 

 Zagira acidaliaria, Wlk. xxxv. 1638 (1866) ; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. 



p. 347. 

 Gyrognatha atriceps, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 134, pi. 168. f. 10 



(1893). 



Head blackish ; thorax and abdomen rufous, the latter with 

 slight blackish segmental lines ; fore legs blackish in front. Pore 

 wing pale brownish rufous with slight dark irroration ; a slight 

 brown antemedial line with black point at costa, somewhat ex- 

 curved ; two black discoidal points ; traces of a brownish medial 



Fig. 63. — Carmara suhcervina, c?. 



line excurved beyond the cell; postmedial line slight, brownish 

 faintly defined on outer side by whitish and with black point at 

 costa, oblique from costa to vein 6, then minutely dentate and 

 produced to white points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; faint traces of a pale 

 subterminal line, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale brownish rufous 

 slightly irrorated with black ; two black discoidal points ; traces of 

 a minutely dentate postmedial line with white points at the veins 



