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C. flavistrlgata Warr. (7 h). Also glossy, smaller Ihan the preceding group, forewing with apex move flavistrigata. 

 acute, distal margin straighter, band darker, differently shaped; a characteristic yellow shade along median 

 vein and before subterminal line. N. W. Himalayas (Darmsala etc.). 



C. minuta Btlr. (7 h) is considerably smaller still than flavistrigata, the groun(l-Cf)loiu- of the forewing minuta. 

 whiter, the median band rather broader, the yellow shade wanting, etc. Hindwing with distal margin pro- 

 minent at 3^'' radial, slightly concave from here to 2'"* subcostal. Forewing beneath more weakly marked; hind- 

 wing somewhat paler than above, at least in its distal half, a dark spot near the hinder angle distinct. Dharm- 

 sala. Also Sikkim and Tibet. 



C. hockingii Btlr. (7 k) is another very small species, resembling a Perizoma except in the tufted face hockingii. 

 and long, rough palpus. The median band may perhaps best be compared with that of hlandiata, hul the ground- 

 colour is more yellowish, the markings less blackish brown, the distal area much less regularly darkened. Hind- 

 wing generally more weakly marked than in our figure, the black dotted line often nearly obsolete. Dharmsala. 

 Also in Sikkim. 



C. lacernigera Btlr. resembles hockingii in structure and colouring but is on an average rather smaller lacemigei-a. 

 still, the median band narrower, fainter, scarcely at all widened and not at all darkened anteriorly, the dark 

 costal spot before the subterminal, on the contrary, more sharply defined. Dharmsala. Also at Simla. 



C. debilitata Leech, of which only a single example (?) is known, is probably related to amelia, but dcbiUtata. 

 larger, paler, the lines of the forewing only represented by vein-dots, the postmedian remote from the ante- 

 median; a dark discal dot, faint traces of median shade midway between it and the subterminal; a weak 

 apical streak. Gifu. 



C. evanescens Stgr., founded on a single worn ? from Vladivostok, may possibly be also related to evanescens. 

 amelia. Thinly scaled, light yellow-grey, the forewing with a somewhat darker, moderately broad median 

 band and a small dark discal dot. 



C. amelia Btlr. (10 k) approaches malvata in structure, but the palpus is rather longer, the amelia. 

 wings on an average even broader, forewing lighter, more yellowish brown, median band broader, the 

 other markings weak, the hindwing whiter. Japan: Yokohama, etc. The centre of the median area varies, 

 commonly showing larger or smaller pale spots or even a continuous narrow band. 



C. mediolineata spec. nov. (13 c) is perhaps an extraordinary form of ame/ia or oi debilitata ; intermedisite m meiioUne- 

 colour; size of a small amelia; antemedian line of forewing weak, gently curved, followed by faint traces of *'"'• 

 2 other lines; median line fine, distinct, crossing the discal dot, straight excepting a slight proximal curve at 

 costa and slight distad curve at hindmargin, the succeding area darker nearly to the postmedian line, which 

 is placed as in debilitata, but straighter, continuous, scarcely denticulate. Japan: Owakidana, near Myanoshita, 

 type ? in my collection, presented by Dr. M. Culpin. 



C. malvata Rbr. (9 k). A variable species, of which we figure two of the principal forms. In its robust malvata. 

 build, the shape of the wings and the presence, in some examples, of a dark oblique dash at the apex of the 

 forewing it bears a good deal of resemblance to the genus Ortholitha, Forewing brown, usually with a reddish 

 tinge. Hindwing paler, very weakly marked. Dark aberrations commonly show a very characteristic white 

 dot or spot distally to the cell of the forewing. — In ab. catenaria Rbl. some further white spots are developed catenaria. 

 posteriorly. — Face without projecting cone of scales. Palpus stout but rather short. Antennal joints in d' 

 angularly projecting, ciliation minute. Larva moderately slender, green when young, later brownish, with 

 dark dorsal triangles; ventral surface dirty white. Feeds on Malva and Lavatera, hibernating. Pupa conical, 

 rather short, thick, reddish, with the cremastral hooks black. It remains in this stage a good part of the year, 

 the perfect insect appearing in September. S. France, Spain, Sicily, N. Africa and at Lissa, Dalmatia. 



C. tripunctaria Leech (7 k) is probably not less variable than malvata, but only two examples are yet tripuneta- 

 known. cf antennal ciliation longer, wings slightly narrower. Forewing dark brown, brighter ferruginous ''**• 

 brown distally to the postmedian line, the basal and median areas bounded distally by white lines, the median 

 containing in its middle two white spots, which very greatly in size and may probably sometimes be wanting, 

 as in the closely allied (perhaps not separable) Indian species combusta Swinh. Hindwing whiter than in mal- 

 vata. Under surface with the postmedian line, as also on the hindwing the median, represented by rows of 

 dots. W. China: Pu-tsu-fong, taken in June. 



C. umbrifera Btlr. (lOi) differs from tripunctaria in having almost the whole of the median area of the nmbrifera. 

 forewing white, the postmedian line more irregular, more dentate, arising from a triangular, sometimes fuscous 

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