CEASPEDIA— PSEUDASTHENA. 
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Craspedia linearis. (Plate CLIII. fig. 13.) 
Expanse l-^^^^ inch. 
Male. Ochreous. Fore wing witli slightly waved antcmedial tx-ansverse brown line. 
Both wings with a dark dot at end of cell ; an indistinct slightly waved band from costa of 
fore wing just beyond middle to inner margin of hind wing, somewhat darker than the 
ground-colour, and bent outwards below costa of fore wing and inwards round the dot at 
end of cell of hind wing ; a fine waved transverse postmedial brown line across both wings, 
elbowed outward below costa of fore wing ; faint traces of two submarginal lunulate bands ; 
a dark antecilial line. Underside paler ; fore wing without antemedial line. 
Female paler. 
Allied to C. addictaria, but larger and without the dark patches outside the postmedial 
line on fore wing. 
Craspedia latiraarginaria. (Plate CLIII. fig. 6.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Female. Basal area whitish, suffused with brownish grey. Fore wing with an indistinct 
pale brown, nearly straight, and inwardly-oblique antemedial band ; both wings with a 
similar medial band and well-marked brown postmedial band, the area beyond it brownish 
grey. Hind wing with ochreous-brown dot at end of cell ; a dark grey antecilial line. 
Underside white, slightly suffused with fuscous, especially the outer marginal area of fore 
wing ; no antemedial band to fore wing. 
Pseudasthena permutans. (Plate CLIII. figs. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Both sexes extremely variable in colour. 
Male. Bright yellow, with darker yellow patches ; the costa suffused and blotched with 
purple, especially one large blotch towards apex. Hind wing with a deep red patch, then a 
large purple blotch on inner margin near base. Other specimens with the costa of fore wing 
and basal and outer areas of both wings thickly spotted with purplish pink, leaving an ill- 
defined medial yellow band. 
Female. Either yellow almost wholly suffused with purplish pink, or deep red mostly 
suffused with purple, or almost wholly purple-brown ; the ground-colour always coming to 
points at apex, centre of outer margin, and exterior angle of each wing, leaving two bright 
yellow lunulate marginal patches on each wing, one from apex to centre, the other from 
centre to exterior angle, and inwardly bounded by a red line ; fore wing with a dark spot at 
end of cell; hind wing with a white one. 
Underside of both sexes paler. Shaft of antenna; pink; pectination in male brownish. 
Allied to P. grataria. 
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