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IDMAIS MODESTA (Plate 49, Fig. 2, 2a, ^9). 

 Teracolus modestus, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1876, p. 137. 



Male. TJpperside pale pinky yellowish ochreous-grey at base ; costal and outer 

 borders broadly black-brown : forewing witb the outer band feebly sinuated inwardly 

 between the median veins and barely enclosing a spot of the ground-colour below the 

 lower median, and marked by an oblique subapical series of three small similar 

 coloured spots ; a black dentate spot at end of the cell : hindwing with the outer 

 band inwardly traversed by a row of small grey-bordered spots of the ground-colour. 

 Female paler, some specimens being yellowish-white, with the inner borders of the 

 brown bands less defined. Underside of male sulphur-yellow, forewing with a slight 

 dusky dentate streak at end of the cell, and a transverse subapical fascia terminating 

 bindward in two black spots ; a black dot at end of the cell in hindwing ; female 

 beneath tinged with grey, the markings dusky black and suffused with ochreous, the 

 hindwing also having a discal dusky macular fascia. 



Expanse 1^ to if inch. 



"Dambool, Hambantotte and MuUiatim District" (Wade). 



"Low country. Found abundantly in the Dambool District and north of it" 



(Machioood). 



Genus CATOPHAGA. 



Catophaga, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 93 (1816). 

 Forewing triangular, acute in male; costal vein extending a httle over halt 

 length of the margin ; first subcostal at one-half, second at one-fourth before end of 

 the cell ; third trifid, fifth at one-fifth beyond the cell, fourth at one-fourth before the 

 apex ; upper and lower discocellulars concave, radial from their angle ; middle median 

 at one-fourth, lower beyond one-half before end of the cell ; submedian recurved : 

 hindwing triangularly-oval ; exterior margin oblique, anal angle somewhat prolonged ; 

 precostal vein curved ; costal somewhat bent at the precostal ; first subcostal at one- 

 third before end of the cell; discocellulars very obhque, nearly straight; middle 

 median at one-fifth, lower at one-third before end of the cell ; submedian straight, 

 internal much recurved. Body moderate, thorax stout, hairy ; palpi hairy beneatb, 

 extending half beyond the eyes; third joint long, slender; legs long, slender; 

 antennae with a flattened club. 

 Type, G. Paulina. 



CATOPHAGA NEOMBO (Plate 50, Fig. 3, 3 a, 6, <^ ? ). 



Fieris Neombo, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. des Lep. i. p. 539, ? ; Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 72. 



pi. 2a, fig. 3, ?. 



Male. TJpperside white : forewing with the basal costal area and apical border 



blackish speckled, the latter indistinctly traversed by white spots : hindwing very 



shghtly black speckled at end of subcostal veins. Underside : apex of forewing and 



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