CRETONIA. 



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wing with the basal area greyish suffused with rufous, the rest of 

 wing glossy red-brown ; a slight curved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line dark brown defined on inner side 

 by pinkish white, oblique, sinuous, a small black spot befoi;e it 

 above inner margin, some darker suffusion beyond it at middle; 

 orbicular absent ; reniform very faintly defined by a few whitish 

 and black scales ; medial line dark, oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line doable, the outer line 



Fig. 123. — Cretonia vcgeta, (^ . |. 



indistinct, oblique from costa to vein 7, then slightly oblique, 

 minutely waved and somewhat incurved at submedian fold, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa, a diffused dark subterminal 

 shade ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing grey suffused with 

 fuscous brown, the cilia paler with a slight brown line through 

 them : the underside whitish suffused and thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous brown, a dark discoidal lunula and indistinct sinuous 

 postmej^ial line. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with the black spot before antemedial line 

 obsolete. 



Bab. Ppnjab, 2 $ , Allahabad, 3 c? , 1 $ ; Bengal, Calcutta, 1 c? ; 

 Bombay (Swinhoe), 2 2 type, Bandra {Jayalcer), 1 § , Mhow 

 (SwinJioe), 1 $ ; Ceylon, Puttalam (Pole), 4 5 ; Buema, Rangoon, 

 T. 5 , Myingyan ( Watson), 1 $ ; Andamans (Sogers), 1 J , 1 $ ; 

 Dutch jN". Guinea, Kapaur (DoJierty), 1 5 ; D'Enteecasteaxix Is., 

 Fergusson L (MeeJr), 1 c? ; Louisiadbs, St. Aignan (IleeJc), 1 c5' , 

 1 $ . Ea-j). 22-24 millim. 



Sect. II. {Cretonia). Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching to vertex of head and 

 not 80 broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate and blunter. 



A. Fore wing brown. 



a. Fore wing with the reniform not filled in with black. 

 a\ Fore wing with the postmedial line not dentate on 



inner area ethiopica. 



i'. Fore wing with the postmedial line dentate on 



inner area platyiphaeUa. 



b. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with black atrisigna. 



B. Fore wing ocbreous white floccifera. 



5591. Cretonia ethiopica, n. sp. (Plate CLX. fig. 12.) 



Head and thorax red-brown ; antennae blackish ; palpi, pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen greyish suffused with fuscous brown, the tarsi 



