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Genus CANATHA. 



Fcem. Corpus sat validum. Fasciculus frontalis productus. 

 Proboscis brevis. Palpi squamosi, sat robusli, oblique ascendeutes, 

 verticem non superantes; ariiculus 3us conicus. Abdomen alas 

 posticas non superans. Pedes glabri, graciles; calcaria longa, 

 gracilia. Alae anticae elougatae, acuta?, margine exteriore angulato ; 

 posticae margine exteriore costam versus subangulato. 



Female. Body moderately stout. Frontal tuft prominent. 

 Proboscis short. Palpi squamous, rather stout, obliquely ascending, 

 not rising higher than the vertex; third joint conical, not more than 

 one-fourih of the length of the second. Abdomen not extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth, slender; spurs long, slender. 

 Wings elongate. Fore wings acute ; exterior border obtusely angular 

 between the second and third inferior veins; second inferior vein as 

 near to the third as to the first; fourth moderately remote from the 

 third. Hind wings with the exterior border slightly angular near 

 the costa. 



Allied to Platydia, from which genus it may be distinguished 

 by the structure of the palpi. 



Canatha confutalis. 



Foem. Flavescens, fusco conspersa ; alee linea j err uginea obliqua 

 subrecta apud costam retracta, linea submarginali cinerea 

 angulosa, lunul is marginalibus nigris albo marginatis ; antica 

 linea nigricante basali o.bbreviata subarcuata, striga costali 

 obliqua nigricante, reniformi magna nigricante, gut ta apicali 

 nigra ; posticce reniformi e guttis tribus nigricantibus sub- 

 connexis. 



Female. Yellowish, thickly brown-speckled, dull ochraceous 

 beneath. Wings with a nearly straight ferruginous line, which 

 extends from near the end of the interior border of the hind wings, 

 and is retracted in the fore wings near the costa, which it joins at 

 somewhat beyond the middle ; a zigzag cinereous submarginal line ; 

 marginal lunules black, white-bordered on the inner side. Fore 

 wings with an abbreviated slightly outward-curved blackish line 

 near the base ; a blackish streak extending obliquely from the costa 

 towards the reniform mark, which is large and blackish; four 

 elongated blackish costal points near the tip ; a black apical dot. 

 Hind wings with the reniform mark composed of three nearly- 



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