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black, bluntly angled on vein 4, indented on each fold; claviform stigma brown edged with black, broader 
above than below; orbicular oblique oval, rufous edged with black; reniform rufous, with a black bar on inside 
and a grey lunule on outer side with a pale dot above and below it; subterminal line rufous, interrupted, 
with short black wedge-shaped marks on each side; small black triangular terminal lunules; fringe brown 
intersected by pale; costa spotted with pale between the black lines; hindwing brownish fuscous; underside 
of forewing black brown, the costa rufous ochreous to outer line; hindwing whitish, the costa black speckled; 
a black cellspot, waved outer line and subterminal cloud towards apex; in the ab. uniformis ab.nov. the whole uniformis. 
forewing is more uniformly rufous, and the lunule on outer edge of reniform dull yellow; abdomen clothed 
with rough shaggy hairs. The type from the Nilgiri Hills, Madras; the aberration from Ceylon; both in Tring 
Museum. 
C. albiorbis spec. nov. (30 c). Forewing rufous dusted with black, and suffused in parts with dark brown; albioriis. 
lines much as in subnigrata ; the claviform stigma large, dark brown, black edged; orbicular brown, oblique, 
with white annulus edged with black; reniform edged with blackish on inner side and below, with a white 
interrupted inner edge, a deep white lunule in middle of outer edge, with one white black tipped spot above 
and two below; subterminal ochreous preceded and followed by dark clouds; black terminal triangles, alter¬ 
nating with white dots at the vein ends; hindwing brownish fuscous with black terminal lunules and white dots. 
1 $ from Darjiling, Sikkim. Type in Tring Museum. 
C. albilineata spec. nov. (30 c). Very much like the preceding species albiorbis from Sikkim, but a little albilineata. 
smaller and darker; all the veins darkened with blackish scales mixed with a few white ones; the reniform 
stigma smaller, the inner and lower black edging finer; the inner part of the white annulus continuous and curved 
over above the white lunule, which is smaller, and ending in the white upper dot; hinclwing darker; dorsum 
dark grey with the crests rufous. 1 $ from the Khasia Hills, Assam. Of the last two species I have seen 
no d'd'; both appear quite distinct from the S. Indian subnigrata. 
C. strigidisca Moore (30 c). Forewing greyish ochreous tinged with rufous in outer half of wing, the inner strigidisca. 
half suffused with blackish, obscuring the markings; subbasal and inner lines double filled in with rufous but 
indistinct; claviform stigma large, black; orbicular rufous, oblique and elliptical; reniform ochreous and white, 
externally ill-defined, the area beyond it rufous; outer line ochreous, excurved above, incurved to lower end of 
reniform, then vertical; subterminal line yellowish ochreous, preceded by a brownish costal patch; the terminal 
area dark brown except at apex; hindwing dark fuscous brown; fringe pale with a dark line through 
middle. Si kki m. 
C. leucostigma Moore (= constellat-a Moore, oxydata Hmps .) (30 d). Forewing rufous tinged with darker; leucostigma. 
vein 1 and median vein with its branches dark, dotted with black and white; basal half of wing suffused 
with dark brown; inner line ochreous, oblique, inangled on vein 1; claviform stigma large, quadrate, reaching 
from vein 1 to the median vein; orbicular oblique, elliptical, rufous ringed with ochreous; reniform large, 
dark brown ringed with ochreous, containing on its outer edge a large white spot with its upper and lower 
ends curved upwards and downwards to a point; outer line ochreous edged with brown, slightly excurved 
above; subterminal line ochreous, preceded by brown clouding and at costa by a brown blotch; terminal 
area black brown; fringe dark brown with crenulate yellow line at base; hindwing brownish fuscous, darker 
in the Khasia Hills, Assam. 
C. confundens Walk. ( = macrostigma Snell.) (30 d). Forewing varying from fuscous brown to grey, confundcns. 
the cf generally greyer than the $; intermediate between connivens, which is paler grey, and siderifera, which is 
much darker; the lines and markings similar; claviform stigma large and black, especially in the the outer 
edge of the dark blotch between the upper stigmata in a line with the outer edge of claviform; reniform stigma 
with a bluish white spot accompanied by dots, as in siderifera, but never so prominent; sometimes only the 
white dots present, or all obsolete; hindwing of $ brown, of S grey, whitish towards base. Larva brownish 
grey, the 4tli and 11th segments humped; the 4th and 5th with subdorsal black marks; an irregular dorsal and 
lateral black band on 4th segment and a dorsal patch on 12th; spiracles black. Occurs throughout India; 
in the Punjab, Bengal, Bombay, Madras, and Ceylon, whence the type; Java, Celebes; also recorded from 
Brisbane, Queensland. 
C. siderifera Moore (30 d). Forewing purplish brown or purplish fuscous; the lines black and double, siderifera. 
both strongly waved and conversely dentate lunulate; subterminal line interrupted into spots, preceded by 
black wedge-shaped marks and followed by slighter ones; claviform stigma large, sub quadrate, filled up with 
