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forewing with a curved costal margin and subacute apex; distal margin smooth, obliquely bent; hindwing 
triangular, both angles rounded off; on the hindwing vein 5 rises almost from the centre of the discocellular, 
vein 6 below the upper cell-angle; veins 7, 8, 9, 10 forked. Hindwing with a short cell; vein 5 comes from 
above the lower cell-angle. Larva with 10 bogus feet. — Type: C. substigmaria Hbn. A genus of Indian moths 
a few of which also occur in China. 
C. substigmaria Hbn. (Vol. II, pi. 23 f). Wings whitish, with a straight, oblique, grey line from the anbsttyma- 
apex of the forewing to the centre of the hind-margin of the hindwing; the space behind it is white; a proxi- ria 
mal band of 3 curved light lines separated by dark little lunae; the space between this band and the distal 
line is more or less suffused with grey, except along the costa, where the beginning of the distal line is broad 
light; before the margin a row of double black dots which, in case they be confluent, form a garland; on 
both wings beneath a large round black discal spot which only shows through above on the hindwing. Head 
and palpi black; abdomen white; central band of hindwing quite narrow, the white areas on both sides 
correspondingly broader; the light veins of the forewings cross the dark areas. — Larva blackish, head and 
last segments tinted black; a sublateral white band; on both sides a series of white and yellow transverse 
streaks. — It occurs in the whole of India, in Tonkin and Hainan; also known from Mon-pin and Chang- 
yang in China. 
C. capitata Wkr. (Vol. II, pi. 23 f). Forewing white with a broad grey median band fading away towards capitata. 
the costa; a distal grey band expands towards the costa and is strangulated in the middle; near the distal 
margin a row of small black spots; cellular spot white; a proximal curved band is in some places double; 
on the hindwing the grey median band is expanded in the centre and above interrupted; head; palpi, and an¬ 
tennae black; dorsum grey with whitish segmental bands. Distinguished from substigmata by the absence of 
the deep black cellular spot on the hindwing above, whereas beneath there is a dull blackish cellular spot on 
both wings, instead of the jet-black spot of substigmaria. This palearctic sj)ecies also occurs in Tonkin; it was 
originally described from Hongkong. 
C. rectificata Wkr. ( — muricolaria Wkr., patulata Wkr.) (48 a). Head, thorax, and forewing greyish- rectificaia. 
brown; the latter with two undulating proximal white lines and traces of some more between them; a similar 
distal group of lines, which, however, is twice curved; towards the distal margin a light line, behind it a 
row of rather large brown spots being connected by an undulating line; at the cell-end a white spot; hind¬ 
wing grey, strewn with small brown scales; the middle and distal brown bands fade away towards the costa; 
a submarginal row of brown spots connected by an undulating line. Sikkim and Assam. 
C. sericea Warr. (48 a). Forewing silky-white, like that of pitmani Mr., but with a broad grey median sericcci. 
band followed by a curved line; the subterminal row of small spots is more bent inward towards the apex; 
the hindwing shows a straight, not curved central band of moon-spots; the subterminal row of spots with two 
large horseshoe-shaped markings between the veins 2, 3, and 3, 4. Kina Balu in North Borneo; also from Su¬ 
matra there is a specimen in the Collection of the British Museum. 
C. pitmani Mr. Head, thorax, and abdomen white; frons black; antennae ochreous; wings white, pitmani. 
forewing with a few dark brown markings on the basal half of the costa, near the base a narrow line; in the 
centre a broad dark band, the discocellular and the line crossing it white; a distal curved line and a subterminal 
row of spots behind which there is a row of small black spots and a row of small dark marginal dots; hind¬ 
wing white with a distal and subterminal row of small dark brown spots; a subterminal row of small dark 
brown spots. 65 to 75 mm. Tavoy in Tenasserim. 
C. javana Auriv. (= absentimacula Warr.) (48 a) is the most closely allied to substigmaria Hbn. from javana. 
which, however, it is at once discernible by the entire absence of the round cellular spot above and beneath; 
instead of it there is on the forewing above a flat-oval, oblique, light spot; all the grey markings are tinted 
* yellowish-red, particularly towards the apex of the forewing; the border of the basal area and the proximal 
edge of the central band behind the angulation on the subcostal extend almost vertically, not obliquely bent 
down to the hind-margin; the distal border of the central band opposite the pell is obtusely and vertically 
undulated, not oblique and angular; the distal undulate line is quite complete, and the marginal area is yel¬ 
lowish reddish-grey; the hindwing is without a dark tint or spots at the distal line towards the apex; beneath 
the costal area of the forewing is broadly tinted yellowish reddish-grey. Hitherto only known from the Isle 
of Java. 
C. dictyaria Swh. Body and wings above and beneath pure white; wings without transverse markings; dictyaria. 
on the forewing the discal spot shows through beneath; hindwing with a large black spot at the cell-end; both 
wings with a subterminal row of bright round black spots and a few very small black dots between these spots 
and the distal margin; vertex black; beneath the cell-end is in both wings marked with a large black spot, the 
small subterminal black spots are smaller and not so round. Described from a single $ from Kanara in 
Bombay. 
