BARATHEA; DISCESTRA; CRATERESTRA. By W. Warren. 
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solete; forewing without areole, veins 7, 8, 9 being stalked, 10, 11 from the cell; vein 3 strongly 
downcurved. Type E. graminosa Walk. 
graminosa. E. graminosa Walk. (= vigens Walk.) (9 a). Fore wing bright yellow green with blackish irroration; 
inner and outer lines double; the inner marked only at its extremities; the outer strongly outcurved 
above, inangled on submedian fold, then again outcurved; subterminal line diffuse, pale, oblique inwards 
to vein 7, then outcurved, and inangled on submedian fold; a terminal row of pale and dark striae; 
claviform and orbicular stigmata absent; reniform pale green with slight black outline and a brown 
spot in lower lobe; hindwing red brown with the termen green, broader in $ than Larva bright 
green, darker in front; lines all white; .8 rows of shining black tubercles, each armed with several 
black bristles; after the final moult pale green marbled with dark green, with white lateral line and 
rows of oblique green stripes; in some cases pinkish brown, with rows of pale spots; feeding on Me- 
liclytus ramiflorus. New Zealand. 
3. Genus: Hbn. 
Tongue well-developed; irons smooth; palpi obliquely porrect, the second segment hairy beneath, 
the third small; antennae of $ ciliated; thorax and abdomen crested; separated from Polia, and, 
indeed, from all other genera of the subfamily, by the presence of a curved spine or claw at end 
of foretibia on the outer side. Type B. brassicae L. 
brassicae. B. brassicae L. (= albicolon Stph. nec Hbn., ochracea Tutt) (9 a). Forewing grey brown varied 
with fuscous; lines pale, dark-edged; orbicular stigma rounded; reniform white-spotted or filled in with 
white; hindwing brownish, with a paler mark near end of vein 2. This abundant palaearctic species 
occurs throughout the Punjab in N. W. India, introduced by way of Kashmir. The insect varies in opposite 
albidilinea. directions: — ab. albidilinea Haw. (Vol. 3, PI. 15e) is a blackish form with the reniform stigma and sub- 
scotochroma. marginal line white, occurring sporadically everywhere; — scotochroma Rob., a local German form, is 
unicolor, melanic, with both wings blackish, much like albidilinea, but without the white submarginal line; — uni¬ 
color Tutt has all the markings, dark and light, more or less lost in the fuscous suffusion, the reniform 
andalnsica. edged only with whitish; -— on the other hand andalusica Stgr. from Spain (? = straminea Failla-Ted., 
from Sicily and Italy) is pale grey-brown with a faint ochreous flush, darker grey in the $, with all 
markings obscured except the three stigmata, which are strikingly pale, with partial blackish out- 
canescens. line, especially on their lower edge, the claviform sometimes grey; -— canescens Moore from Yarkand 
(= decolorata Stgr. from Issykkul and other localities in Central Asia) is pale greyish brown, with the 
stigmata as in andalusica, but with the markings, especially towards termen, not obsolete. Larva poly- 
phagous, varying in ground colour from green to brown and blackish, with broad pale spiracular line and 
a dorsal hump on segment 11; feeding on all low plants. 
4. Genus : lEiscestra Hmps. 
Tongue well-developed; frons with a truncate corneous prominence with a strong semicircular 
plate below it in the middle; palpi obliquely porrect, hairy in front; antennae of with short sessile 
fascicles of cilia; thorax and abdomen crested. Type D. chartaria Grote, from America. 
arenaria. D. arenaria Hmps. (9b). Forewing whitish, flushed with pale brown and dusted with dark; the 
inner line double, waved, but indistinct; outer line lunulate dentate, bent outwards beneath costa, ex- 
curved above and incurved below vein 4; subterminal line pale, slightly defined by fuscous, crenulate, 
on veins 4 and 3 dentate, and curved outwards to tornus; small black terminal lunules; stigmata with 
black edges; the claviform of moderate size; the orbicular round and, like the reniform, with fuscous 
centre; hindwing white; some dark points along termen which is tinged with fuscous; the veins 
dark. This species is recorded only from Karachi, Sind, in N. W. India. 
5. Genus : Craterestra Hmps. 
Distinguished from Discestra by the frontal prominence being shorter, varying in shape and develop¬ 
ment, without a prominent plate below it; the antennae of <$ pubescent only. Type C. lucina Druce 
from America. 
media. C. media Walk. (= latifasciata Moore, viriata Swinh.) (9 a, b). Forewing dark grey brown, the area 
below middle on each side of median fascia paler, brownish ochreous; the terminal area dark except 
at apex; the inner line waved, strongly angled outwards above inner margin; outer line obscurely double, 
