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palpi with black spots ; abdomen and body beneath pale ocbreous, -witli broad black 

 dorsal segmental bands and lateral spots. Underside unilorn^ greyish-brown, the cilia 

 being white. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Genus CUROBA. 

 Quroha, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 272 (1864). 

 Eucharia (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 181 (1818-25). 



Forewing elongated, exterior margin short, slightly convex, posterior margin 

 long ; cell extending two-thirds the wing ; first and second subcostal branches 

 emitted near end of the cell, second trifid, fifth from end of the cell, and looped to 

 third for a short distance near its base, sixth (or radial) from end of the cell : discQ- 

 cellular oblique ; two upper medians from angles at lower end of the cell, second at 

 a short distance, and lowpr at two-fifths before end of the cell ; submedian almost 

 straight : hindwing triangularly oval, exterior margin very convex ; cell broad, 

 extending two-thirds the wing ; costal vein extending to apex ; subcostal joined to 

 costal to one-fourth from the base ; two subcostal branches from end of the cell ; 

 discocellular slightly bent in the middle ; two upper medians from angles at end of 

 the cell, second at one-eighth, and first (or lower) at about one-third before end of 

 the cell ; one submedian and an internal vein. Body short, slender ; palpi porrect, 

 second joint extending much beyond the head, laxly squamose beneath, third joint 

 shorter than second, pointed ; antennae bipectinated ; legs slender, smooth, 



CTmOBA SANGARIDA (Plate 99, Fig. 3, 3a, S)- 

 Phal. Noct. Sangarida, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. fig. D (1781). 

 Eucharia Sangarida, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 181. 

 Phal. Noct. Mopsa, Drury, Exot. Ins. iii. pi. 3, f. 3 (1782). 

 Curobafasciata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. Suppl. p. 272 (1864). 



Forewing dark olivaceous-brown, with an oblique subapical yellowish-white band 

 extending from costa to posterior angle : hindwing carmine, the basal ai'ea brown ; 

 a black waved discal band and vein-streaks extending to outer margin. Ciha brown. 

 Body brown above, yellowish-carmine beneath; basal joint of palpi with carmine 

 spots ; antennae and legs brown. 



Expanse If inch. 



"Puselawe. Hills, on cultivated ground. February. Very rare." {Hutchison.) 



Family CALLIDULIDiE. 



Wings short, broad ; cell open in hindwing, and in some genera the exterior 

 margin- is more or less angulated in the middle. Flight diurnal. 

 Larva unknown. 

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