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posterior part of the band more strongly narrowed than in variegata. Nainital, 8. W. of Almora (type) and 
Muktesar. 
C. flavistrigata Warr. ( = pallidaria Swinh.) (Vol. 4, pi. 7 h). Smaller than the 3 preceding, median band flavixirigafa. 
narrower, distal area paler, etc. Antenna of <$ nearly as in homophana. N. W. India, the types from Kalapani 
(Punjab). 
C. cupreata Moore (26 1). Palpus rather short. Antennal ciliation very short. Wings glossy; forewing cuprmta. 
with an ill-defined reddish-brown median band, traversed by a narrow darker shade about the cel I-spot; distal 
area interruptedly suffused with red-brown; subterminal macular; a somewhat pronounced brown antemedian 
band. Sikkim, Bhotan and Naga Hills. 
C. combusta Swinh. (26 1). Larger, ciliation longer; less glossy, the hindwing whiter, traversed by a combusta. 
slender postmedian line. The type form has the bands of the forewing rather ill-defined, the median band not 
enclosing any white-grey patches, the distal area not sharply marked, but with an ill-defined white-grey patch 
in the middle. — ab. uniformis nov. has the entire forewing still more uniformly rippled, almost unicolorous, uniformis. 
the whitish outer spot wanting. — ab. albimaculata nov. resembles the typical form of tripunctaria in developing albimacula- 
white patches in the median band; white outer spot sometimes enlarged. All the forms are from the Khasis. 
C. tripunctaria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 7 k). Very similar to combusta, perhaps a subspecies, the postmedian tripunctaria. 
projecting somewhat more before the middle; the median area is somewhat broadened, the terminal correspond¬ 
ingly narrowed. W. China: Pu-tsu-fong. 
C. umbrifera Bull. (Vol. 4, pi. 10 c). Similar to the two preceding, the median area of the forewing umbrifera. 
broader, white, merely with a narrow, somewhat irregular brown band on its proximal part, a blackish celldot 
and a postmedian line which arises from a costal spot, is much more irregular throughout and has slight macular 
extensions centrally and at hindmargin. Japan (type), Corea, Central China and the Khasis. 
C. altera Bastelb. (26 1), described as a Mesoleuca, is closely related to umbrifera, though the broadly altera. 
white median area gives it the aspect of Mesoleuca. Scaling not so dense and glossy as in typical Mesoleuca, 
discocellulars of hindwing strongly biangulate. Palpus rather short, antennal ciliation of the about as long 
as the diameter of the shaft. Formosa. 
C. erebearia Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 13 c). A dark, glossy species of moderate size, not particularly like any erebearia. 
other known to me. Palpus rather short and thick, ciliation of the $ antenna extremely short. Forewing rippled 
with lines almost throughout, the boundaries of basal and of median area marked by heavier lines. W. China: 
Pu-tsu-fong. 
C. perplexaria Leech (Vol. 4, pi. 7 i). Similar to large specimens of the Palaearctic obsoletaria (Vol. 4, perplexaria. 
pi. 10 a) but with the median area broader anteriorly, less interrupted, whiter-bordered, same additional white 
marking in the apical region, the hindwing also whitened. Ta-tsien-lu. 
18. Genus: Gonaiiticlea Swinh. 
(See Vol. 16, p. 89.) 
Distinguished structurally from Coenotephria by the long, porrect palpus, with conspicuous, rather 
robust 3rd joint. Usually also easy to recognize superficially by the unicolorous, very generally orange-yellow 
hindwing and a characteristic pattern of the forewing, especially in the $$. Sexual dimorphism, at least in the 
occlusata group, very pronounced (see belorv). Antenna of simple or shortly ciliated. Discocellulars of the 
hindwing biangulate. Genotype: aversa Swinh., in which species a tendency for the termen of the forewing 
to be concave anteriorly and angled in the middle is carried further than in most of the species. Distribution 
chiefly African, Indian and Malayan, but a few Papuan species have also been referred here. 
G. semiflava Warr. (27 a). In this and the three following species the palpus is moderate rather than semiflava. 
long and their reference to Gonanticlea is somewhat doubtful, semiflava is easily distinguished from subcaesia, 
inter alia, by the simple <§ antenna and the bright coloration, notably the yellow hindwing. British and Dutch 
New Guinea, type from Angabunga River. 
G. onaea sp. n. (27 a). Very near semiflava, with which it was taken on Mount Goliath. Both wings onaea. 
with the colouring more sober, though essentially similar, the pale part of the median area restricted and not 
white; postmedian line of forewing between 2nd radial and 2nd median curved instead of bilobed, subterminal 
spot in cellule 6 stronger and darker than that of cellule 7 (in semiflava they are equal, contlent and more red¬ 
dish); hindwing slightly more rounded than in semiflava. perhaps with termen more prominent about 3rd radial 
and 1st median, its posterior region with broader drab suffusion, its fringe less darkened. A pair in the Tring Museum. 
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