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of the colouring; mostly as follows: head and thorax of the creamy-white; antennae black; abdomen orange- 
yellow with median and lateral rows of black dots. Costal margin of the forewing as far as the subcostal creamy- 
white, the rest of the wing brownish ashy-grey, 2 small black dots at each end of the discoidal veins. Hind¬ 
wing ashy-grey, faintly showing through. The $ differs by the creamy-white forewing and the semi-hyaline, 
white hindwing with 3 black submarginal dots. Length of forewing: <$ 19 to 25 mm, $ 20 to 27 mm. India 
to the Moluccas and Philippines. As to this species and the next one vid. Vol. II, p. 90 (under Phissama 
transiens). 
C. gangis L. (= interrupta L., francisca F continuatus Moore) (Vol. II, t. 17 a). Forehead black, gangis. 
hindhead light flesh-coloured; antennae black; thorax and proximal half of tegulae black, distal half of tegulae 
and shoulder-covers flesh-coloured. Abdomen above carmine with a median row of black transverse dots, 
beneath black. Forewing flesh-coloured with a broad, black longitudinal band below the median extending 
from the base to half of vein 3, another shorter black oblique band runs from the origin of vein 4 almost 
to the apex of vein 5; 2 small discoidal dots. Hindwing semi-hyaline, greyish-white, with a drab margin. — 
ab. $ pallida nb. nov. has yellowish forewings and whitish, semi-hyaline hindwings; frequently found among pallida. 
the typical forms. -— ab. nigrescens ab. nov. Forewing almost entirely suffused with black. — Length of fore- nigrescens. 
wing: <$ 16 to 22 mm, $ 22 to 25 mm. From India and Ceylon to China and Australia. 
C. arabica Hmps. (19 h). Head brownish-grey; antennae black with a red base; collar and tegulae arabica. 
red; thorax brownish-grey, shoulder-covers with one black dot each; abdomen red with a median row and 2 
lateral rows of black dots. Forewing brownish-grey with black dots and mostly a black costa. Hindwing grey, 
with a black discoidal dot. Length of forewing: 16, $ 20 mm. South Arabia. 
10. Genus: Estigmene Hbn. 
Distinguished from Creatonoius by the roughly haired thorax and by the veins 3, 4 and 5 of the 
hindwing rising from the lower cell-angle. — About 28 species, 10 of which are Indo-Australian. 
E. cingulata Rothsch. Forehead blackish-brown, hindhead white; antennae black; tegulae black, with cingulata. 
a white costal margin; thorax black; shoulder-covers white, with a black longitudinal band; abdomen light 
pink, with broad black transverse bands. Forewing black, a median, curved, white longitudinal band runs 
from the base to the apex of the wing. Hindwing light pink, a greyish-black spot at the cell-end and a 
similarly coloured, twice interrupted submarginal band. Length of forewing: 20 mm. Ooty (India). 
E. quadriramosa Roll. (24 d). Head and antennae white; tegulae white, margined with yellow, with quadrira- 
a black median dot; shoulder-covers black, margined with white; thorax white with a black longitudinal band; mosa. 
abdomen yellow, with dorsal and lateral rows of black dots. Forewing white, costal margin blackish-brown, 
a blackish-brown band runs along the subcostal, and a broader, similar one along the median. Blackish-brown 
longitudinal bands and stripes are also on the veins 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7. Hindwing white, with 2 submarginal 
black dots and one discoidal black dot. Length of forewing: $ 20, $ 25 mm. North West India. Vid. 
Vol. II, p. 88. 
E. perrotteti Guer. ( — biguttata Wkr., lativitta Moore) (24 d). Forehead black, hindhead white; an- perroiteti. 
tennae black; tegulae half white and black, shoulder-covers white, with a black median dot; thorax black; 
abdomen above pink, with black transverse spots, beneath black. Forewing black, with a white, median longi¬ 
tudinal band. Hindwing pink, with 3 black, yellow-margined submarginal spots, costa black, fringes yellow. 
— ab. nigricans Moore (24 cl) has quite black forewings. Length of forewing: <$ 19. $ 24 mm. India. nigricans. 
E. irregularis Moore (24 d) differs from E. perrotteti by the strongly angled and irregular, white irregularis. 
longitudinal band of the forewing and the black fringes, as well as the black, submarginal transverse band 
of the hindwing. Ceylon. 
E. ceylonensis Hmps. (24 cl). forehead black, hindhead white; antennae black; tegulae and shoulder- ceylonensis. 
covers white, with one black median dot each; thorax dark brown; abdomen light carmine, with black trans¬ 
verse spots. Forewing leather-coloured brown, with an irregular, white longitudinal band of confluent spots, 
a white apical macula and 2 white clots at the costa, as well as with a very small one in the cell. Hind- 
wing pink, with a smoky black, interrupted transverse band and a smoky black discoidal spot. The $ 
differs by the much broader white longitudinal band and a larger number of the wdiite costal spots on the 
forewing. Length of forewing: $ 17, $ 21 mm. Ceylon. 
E. vittata Moore (24 d, e). Forehead black, hindhead whitish pink; antennae greyish-white; tegulae vittata. 
outside whitish pink, inside black; shoulder-covers whitish pink with a median black dot; thorax black; ab- 
