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CANTHYLIDIA. By W. Warren. 
moribunda. 
invaria. 
pallet cens. 
alcurota. 
spissaki. 
puncti- 
culata. 
aberrant. 
mel%bapb.es. 
sericea. 
flavitincta. 
marked, whereas in the type form the underside of forewing is blackish in disc with a strongly marked reni- 
form stigma. The aberration is by far the commoner form of the two; of 14 $$ and 3 GS in the Tring 
Museum only one of each sex can be referred to the type. Swinhoe wrongly considered all the pale examples 
Sherlock River, W. Australia. 
C. moribunda Guen. Porewing uniform warm ochreous; hindwing slightly suffused with fuscous; 
on the underside it is the hindwings that are uniform yellow, while the forewings have the disc blackish. This 
is Guenee’s description, who compares the insect with the European L. phragmitidis as to colour. He adds that 
the type, a $, of unknown locality, was in his own collection. In the British Museum collection is an insect 
from the Doubleday collection, without locality, marked in Gtjenee’s handwriting “moribunda” and this speci¬ 
men, identical with invaria Walk., has been treated as the real moribunda, of which the original description is 
much more like that of Timor a artaxoides Moore from India. 
C. invaria Walk. (= pallida Btlr., fumata Lucas) (28a). Forewing dull pale grey or brownish grey, 
with the dark reniform showing through; fringe grey; hindwing darker, fuscous tinged, especially along termen; 
fringe white. The wings are broader than in aleurota and often fade to ochreous. N. Queensland. A form 
occurring in W. Australia is paler, thickly powdered with olive grey, and may be known as subsp. pal- 
lescens subsp. nov. (28 a). 
C. aleurota Hmps. (28a). Forewing gi’eyish white, thickly peppered with darker; a faintly paler 
streak through cell to termen; a small dark spot in cell and a large one at end show through from under¬ 
side ; an outer series of dark points on the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then obliquely incurved, 
generally distinct in but scarcely distinguishable in §; hind wing whitish suffused with dark grey or fuscous 
towards termen; fringe white. Sherlock River and Derby district, W. Australia. The forewing is longer and 
narrower than in invaria, but the less marked $$ are difficult to distinguish. This species seems to occur in 
two forms; one larger and with more diffuse markings, the typical form; the other smaller and more condensed, 
which may be separated as ab. spissata ab. nov. (28b). 
C. puncticulata spec. nov. (27 n). Intermediate between invaria and aleurota ; distinguished at once 
by the forewings having a series of minute black terminal dots. W. Australia. 
C. aberrans Btlr. (28b). Forewing pale dull brown; inner and outer lines indicated by vein points; a 
diffused oblique band beyond the inner points; those of the outer line almost dentate, outcurved from costa to 
vein 4, thence incurved; a slight pale streak from middle of cell to termen; some obscure pale subterminal 
spots and a terminal series of black dots; hindwing pale brown; the terminal area suffused with, darker brown, 
but showing a pale subterminal mark above and below vein 3. t Peak Downs, Queensland, Australia. 
C. melibaphes Hmps. (28 b). Fore wing uniform ochreous greyish; the costal edge orange; hindwing 
pale ochreous; head and tegulae orange; underside of forewing orange yellow. Thursday Island., Queensland. 
A smaller species. 
C. sericea spec. nov. ( 28b). Fore wing silky ochreous flushed with pink; the veins brownish; a brownish 
suffusion throughout the wing, except along the white streak through cell to termen, strongest immediately 
below the cell; inner margin paler; a row of small reddish dots on termen between the veins; fringe white 
with a grey line through it; hindwing in $ whitish, with veins and termen diffusely fuscous; in $ wholly 
fuscous; fringe white; head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous suffused with pinkish grey, the abdomen often 
paler; face dull brown; forewing on the underside suffused with dull brownish, except the apex and termen 
and the white streak from base; a dark spot on discocellular; hindwing wholly silky ochreous. 6 2 $$ from 
Sumba, collected by Doherty in 1896. Close to what I identify as C. cramboides Guen., but smaller and more 
delicate; the forewing narrower with more oblique termen. 
C. flavitincta Lower. (28 b). F orewing olive yellow, rather darker towards inner margin; inner and outer lines 
strongly dentate, marked by long black scales, the outer entire, the inner not reaching costa; the two stigmata 
marked by black scales; the orbicular small; the reniform subquadrate; inner marginal area with black scales, 
especially between the two lines; hindwing dull luteous, with broad fuscous terminal border, containing’a pale 
blotch at end of vein 3, preceded by a black outer line; the black scaling soon wears off and the markings appear 
