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*5479. Corgatha gemmifera. (Plate CLVIII. fig. 14.) 



Micraschus gemmifer , Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 353 (1894). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen paler. Fore wing grey- 

 tinged with rufous and slightly irrorated with blackish, the costa 

 blackish with some silvery suffusion ; traces of a double sinuous 

 antemedial line ; a diffused blackish discoidal spot ; postmedial line 

 unusually near termen, indistinct, double, minutely waved, curved, 

 a black spot near it in discal fold confluent with the prominent 

 black subterminal line with series of silvery points on it, slightly 

 excurved at middle ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia chequered 

 fuscous and grey. Hind wing grey tinged with rufous and thickly 

 irrorated with blackish ; a waved blackish medial line ; postmedial 

 line waved, angled inwards in discal fold, then excurved ; a pro- 

 minent black subterminal line with series of silvery points on it ; 

 a fine black terminal line ; cilia grey tinged with fuscous except 

 at base ; the underside grey-white, the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous, difi'used fuscous medial and postmedial lines. 



Bab. Burma, E. Pegu, 4000' {Doherty), type f c? in Coll. Eoth- 

 schild. Exp. 16 millim. 



5480. Corgatha melanistis, n. sp. (Plate CLVIII. fig. 15.) 



$ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous, the vertex of 

 head whiter ; palpi blackish at tips ; tarsi fuscous ringed with 

 whitish ; abdomen whitish tinged with rufous, dorsally suffused 

 with fuscous except at base. Fore wing whitish tinged with 

 rufous, the costal area suffused with black and irrorated with 

 leaden-grey scales to postmedial line; a black point below base of 

 cell and subbasal black striga from costa ; antemedial line blackish, 

 waved, somewhat inwardly oblique ; a black discoidal spot and 

 traces of a minutelj- waved oblique black line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line rather diffused, blackish with 

 some leaden-grey scales on it, slightlj' excurved beyond lower angle 

 of cell, then incurved, some whitish points beyond it on costa with 

 slight black streaks between them; subterminal line blackish irrorated 

 with leaden-grey scales and with black -brown suffusion before it, 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle and incurved at discal fold 

 and below vein 3; a fine black terminal line; cilia blackish with 

 a whitish line at base. Hind wing ochreous suffused with deep 

 red-brown except at base and on terminal area towards apex ; a 

 diffused black antemedial line, discoidal striga, diffused sinuous 

 postmedial line and minutely waved subterminal line irrorated with 

 leaden-grey scales ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia red-browji and 

 blackish with whitish line at base ; the underside ochreous white 

 suffused with brown except at base and on costal area to middle, a 

 slight discoidal striga and diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hub. Up. Burma, N. Shan States {Bingham), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 It) millim. 



