CORGATHA. 



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a*. Fore wing with the costa white figuralis. 



6*. Fore wing with the costa not white. 



«5. Fore wing with pale streaks on the veins . dictaria. 

 b^. Fore wing without pale streaks on the 



veins zonalis. 



J3. Wings with the subterminal line not highly 

 dentate. 

 «■». Fore wing rufous to purplish brown. 

 «5. Head with the vertex white. 



a^. Fore wing with the ante- and post- 

 medial lines pale diploa/a. 



b^. Fore wing with the ante- and post- 

 medial lines dark albiveriex. 



b^. Head with white bar between antennae. 

 a^. Fore wing with the postinedial line 

 excurved from below costa to vein 4, 



then incurved argenticosta. 



¥. Fore wing with the postmedial line 

 oblique from below costa to inner 



margin rubra. 



c^. Head without white on vertex. 



ftS. Fore wing with antemedial, medial, and 



postmedial lines. 



ai. Fore wing with blackish patch on 



termen below apex ; hind wing with 



blackish patch at tornus ; the 



underside not yellow castanea. 



b'. Wings without blackish patches ; the 

 underside yellow. 



a^. Wings tinged with fiery red hypoxanthn. 



Ifi. Wings not tinged with iiery red ... terracotta. 

 b^. Fore wing without antemedial, medial, 

 and postmedial lines and with oblique 



pale subterminal line hebescens. 



b*. Fore wing grey and fuscous. 



«5. Both wings irrorated with silvery scales . argentisjmrsa. 

 65. £oth wings with silvery points on the 



subterminal line gemmifera. 



c^. Wings without silvery scales or points ... melanistis. 

 b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour pale yellow ... straminea. 



5458. Corgatha minor. 



Capnodes minor, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 212, pi. 174, f. 11 (1885) ; 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 347. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen bright mfous, the vertex of head and 

 shaft of antennae towards base pure white, the ventral surface of 

 abdomen whitish. Fore wing bright rufous with slight dark ir- 

 roration ; the costa black-brown with rounded white subbasal, ante- 

 and postmedial patches, two white points and a small oblique mark 

 towards apex ; anteuiedial dark points on median nervure and vein 1 ; 

 a dark discoidal point ; a postmedial series of points oblique to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; faint traces of a sinuous subterminal line ; 

 a slight waved dark terminal line with points in the interspaces. 

 Hind wing bright rufous with slight dark irroration ; a dark dis- 

 coidal point ; traces of a curved postmedial line and sinuous 

 subterminal line ; a terminal series of minute black points; the 



