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CORGATHA. By W. Warren. 
inornata. 
minor. 
pusilla. 
costinotalis. 
binotata. 
minuia. 
reducta. 
dichionistis. 
flavicosta. 
P. inornata spec. nov. (23 1). Forewing dull grey brown; the costal edge darker; lines slightly darker, 
very obscure, inner, median, and outer, the last nearly vertical, crenulate, bulged below middle; terminal line of 
slight lunules; a dark cell spot, and dot in base of cell; hindwing similar; face, palpi and forelegs deep purplish 
red. 1 ,5 from Upper Setekwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New Guinea, Sep. 1910 (Meek). Type in Tring Museum. 
70. Genus: Corgatha Walk. 
Distinguished from Palara by the forelegs of being devoid of large tufts of hair; the mid and hind 
tibiae with only moderate fringe of hair. Type C. zonalis Walk. 
C. minor Moore. Forewing bright rufous slightly dusted with dark; the costa black brown with rounded 
white subbasal, inner, and outer patches, two white points, and a small oblique mark towards apex; inner 
line marked by dark dots on median vein and vein 1 ; outer by a series of dark dots oblique to vein 4, then 
incurved; traces of a sinuous subterminal line; a dark cell dot. Ceylon, whence the type, and Borneo. 
C. pusilla Swinh. (25 n). Fore wing bright rufous, with pure white conical subbasal, inner, and outer 
patches on costa and a somewhat wedge shaped patch at apex, giving rise to crenulate oblique dark inner, outer, 
and subterminal lines; a terminal series of minute white striae with black striae in front of them; hindwing 
with outer and subterminal lines only. Siam. The type is a but the insect most probably .belongs here. 
C. costinotalis Moore (231). Fore wing bright rufous with some dark irroration; rounded white subbasal, 
inner, and outer spots on costa with black scales round their edges; lines fine and dark; the inner inwardly oblique 
and sinuous; the outer crenulate, oblique to vein 4 and inbent below 3; traces of a waved sub terminal line; 
a row of black terminal dots; hindwing the same, without the white costal patches. Sikkim. 
C. binotata spec. nov. (24 1 ). Fore wing fawn colour, slightly black speckled; lines all very indistinct; 
inner and median waved and vertical, plainer towards inner margin, rising each from a small white costal 
spot, on each side of which the costa is marked with dark scales; outer line dentate lunulate, the teeth marked 
with dark white-tipped dashes on veins, plainer towards inner margin and obsolete at costa; subterminal 
line marked only by a blackish crescentic marking formed of two lunules from vein 6 to 4; terminal dots 
black with a few white scales; fringe concolorous; a slight blackish cell spot; hindwing somewhat paler; the 
lines below middle accompanied on each side by blackish speckling; underside unspeckled and almost un¬ 
marked, pale pinkish; head and palpi red brown; thorax and dorsum like wings. 1 $ from Mt. Arjuno, Java 
(W. Doherty). 
C. minuta Beth.-Baker (23 1). Forewing bright rufous, irrorated and striated with fuscous; large white 
inner and outer costal patches edged with blackish scales; a black dot at middle of cell and two at the 
end; outer line crenulate, dark, curved parallel to termen; a waved subterminal dark line; black and white 
dots along termen; hindwing with a series of median white black dotted points; an outer series of white and 
fuscous dots; ab. reducta ab. nov. (23 m) is a smaller duller form with the white costal blotches shallower; 
the terminal spots black, larger, without white dots; the underside less yellow, with large cell spots on both 
wings. Ekeikei, Aroa River, Oetakwa River, British New Guinea, and Ivuranda, Queensland. 
C. dichionistis Trnr. (23 m). Forewing rufous, suffused in basal and median areas with brown; the 
costa blackish to beyond middle; large inner and outer white spots on costa; waved dark inner, median, and 
outer lines; cellspot black; terminal black dots; fringe rufous; hindwing similar, without the white costal 
spots. Queensland. 
C. flavicosta Bmps. (25 n). Forewing deep fulvous red; costal streak yellowish white, slightly irrorated with 
red, narrowing to a point at apex; inner line pale, straight, more oblique below middle; outer line redbrown, 
outwardly pale edged, oblique and slightly curved; a deep red terminal line; fringe chequered yellow and 
red; a whitish spot at end of cell with a dark striga on it; hindwing similar; the cell spot dark. Alu, Solomon 
Islands. The type is a $ and may not belong here; the figure represents the termen of forewing elbowed 
in middle. 
