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MATOPO; DELTA. By W. Warren. 
rvibricosta. 
selecta. 
mdica. 
and broken; veins of terminal area dark; a short streak above end of vein 4, and two chocolate red striae 
in submedian interval before termen; hindwing semihyaline white, slightly tinged with red along termen; in 
the $ the forewing is suffused with rufous; the hindwing redbrown, with the termen and fringe rufous. Occurs 
in the Punjab and Nepal. 
C. rubrkosta Hmps. Forewing ochreous white, pink-tinged towards base; costal streak crimson to 
beyond middle, reaching to middle of cell, towards apex with a brown black patch; a brown streak along 
inner margin: lines strongly dentate, filled in with whitish; orbicular stigma elliptical, tinged with crimson 
defined by black; reniform white with a crimson flush, defined by black and olive brown, its upper end pro¬ 
duced outwards, its lower forming a lobe below median; veins beyond cell olive brown; subterminal line repre¬ 
sented by a whitish striga from costa, oblique olive shades from termen below apex to cell fold and from ter¬ 
men below vein 5 to submedian fold, crossed by black streaks and below vein 7 by a white streak; hind¬ 
wing semihyaline white, brownish ochreous along inner margin and brown at apex. Described from a single 
from Ceylon. 
98. Genus: Matopo Dist. 
Tongue well developed; palpi obliquely upturned, reaching vertex, the third segment short, porrect; 
Irons with a large rounded prominence with corneous plate below it; thorax clothed with scales and slightly 
crested; dorsum crested at base only; neuration normal. Type M. typica Dist. 
Sect. II. Antennae of $ subserrate. 
M. selecta Walk. (— lobifera Moore) (29 a). Forewing ochreous white with reddish brown suffusion; the 
innermarginal median area greyish ; the veins in terminal half with dark streaks defined on each side by 
white; a black subbasal point on costa; a dark mark above inner margin before inner line, which is marked 
by a black point on costa, and below middle by a black line from claviform stigma to inner margin; clavi- 
form stigma ochreous, elongate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform ochreous, defined by black, the reniform 
laterally, and with a black central line on discocellular; outer line strongly bent outwards below costa, 
oblique to vein 6. and very strongly incurved below vein 4, with brown clouding before it in cell fold and below 
vein 3 to inner margin; an oblique brown shade from below apex to outer line; a subterminal series of short 
black streaks in the interspaces between veins 7 and 2 on brownish marks, and a brown line from vein 2 
to inner margin; a series of small black streaks in the intervals from termen; fringe brown intersected with 
white at the vein-ends; hindwing of white; the veins of terminal half and the termen towards apex and 
below vein 2 tinged with brown; hindwing of $ fuscous brown, paler base wards; the fringe white. India: 
the Punjab, Mean Meer; Bombay; Cuddapah, Madras; occurs also in Egypt. 
99. Genus: llelta Saalm. 
Tongue developed; Irons smooth, with ridges of hair at middle and above; palpi obliquely porrect up¬ 
wards, the second segment broadly fringed with hairs below, the third short; antennae of <$ ciliated; tegulae 
produced to a dorsal ridge; thorax with divided ridgelike crest; wings with normal neuration; forewing mark¬ 
ed with longitudinal streaks, and with the usual lines obscured or absent. Type D. stolifera Saalm. from 
Africa. 
D. indica Walk. (29 a). Forewing grey tinged with brown, the veins streaked with black; a short 
black streak below base of costa, with another beyond it in cell, and a very oblique striga from median vein to 
submedian fold, in which there is a black streak from base to middle, forming a dentate mark at extremity, 
enclosing a whitish mark representing the claviform; inner line an oblique striga from costa and a line from 
extremity of claviform, angled outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1; 
a short dark streak beyond the claviform; orbicular stigma defined by blackish, elongate, acute at extremity 
and touching the reniform, which is a narrow pale lunule defined by blackish; outer line almost obsolete and 
whitish from costa to vein 2, strongly bent outwards below costa and excurved to vein 4, below vein 2 
represented by a slight brown line defined externally by whitish, angled inwards in submedian fold to the 
inner line and outwards on vein 1; an arched black streak from lower extremity of reniform to near termen and 
a short streak above middle of vein 3; terminal area with a triangular brown patch from below apex to vein 
