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5976. Gyrohypsoma sterrha. 



Gyrohi/psoma sterrha, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlix. p. 47 (1888) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 233. 



$ . Head pink ; thorax yellowish suffused with pink : pectus 

 and legs whitish, the forelegs and tibiae tinged with pink ; abdomen 

 olive ochreous, the ventral surface white except at extremity. 

 Fore wing olive ochreous slightly irrorated with white, the costal 



Fig. 175. — Gyrohypsoma sterrha, 2- j- 



area pink; orbicular represented by a small white spot, the reni- 

 torm defined by slight white points; cilia pink. Hind wing 

 ochreous suffused with brown, the cilia pink ; the underside 

 whitish, the costa tinged with pink. 



Hah. W. Ttjekestan, Ferghana, Aulic Ata, 1 § ; E. Turkesta:n', 

 Hi. Exi). 24 millim. 



Genus CERATHOSIA. 



Cerathosia, Smitli, Ent. Am. iii. p. 79 (1887) 



Type. 



ificolora. 



Proboscis aborted, .small ; palpi porrect, not extending beyond thefrons and 

 slightly fringed with scales below ; f'rons with corneous prominence with 

 raised edges and hollowed out corneous process in centre; a curved corneous 

 plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; tliorax sajootbly 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibia smoothly scaled, 

 tbe fore tibia with curved claw on outer side; build slender; abdomen 

 smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to foi-m the 

 ai-eole ; 11 from cell. Idind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell to near middle. 



A. Fore wing without orange apical patch tricolora. 



B. Fore wing with orange apical pat(;h idella. 



5977. Cerathosia tricolora. 



Cerathosia tricolor. Smith, Ent. Am. [iii. p. 79 (1887) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. 

 N. Am. p. 217. 



J . Head and thorax white, the head with two black spots 

 between antenuse : the teguliB and patagia with two black spots at 



