. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 18 1140. Craterestra lucina. Stibara lucina, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 296, pi, 27. (1889). Head and thorax red-broTvn mixed with whitish ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen red-brown, dorsally suffused with black. Fore wing pale grey-brown suffused in parts with ])urplish brown, the area between the antemedial and medial lines strongly suffused ; a double, waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double antemedial line angled outwards below costa, then strongly excurved; claviform defined b
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 18 1140. Craterestra lucina. Stibara lucina, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 296, pi, 27. (1889). Head and thorax red-broTvn mixed with whitish ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen red-brown, dorsally suffused with black. Fore wing pale grey-brown suffused in parts with ])urplish brown, the area between the antemedial and medial lines strongly suffused ; a double, waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double antemedial line angled outwards below costa, then strongly excurved; claviform defined by black, very short and broad; orbicular and reniform with pale brownish centres and grey annuli, the former defined by black, rather pointed above and dilated below, the latter very indistinct; a waved medial line ; postmedial line indistinct, double, minutely dentate, bent outwards below. Fig. 8.—Craferestra lucina, (^. \. costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, some pale points on costa beyond it; subtermiual line pale, defined on inner side by a series of slight dark marks, and with some fuscous suffusion beyond it; a terminal seiies of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown; the underside ochreous whitish irrorated with dark brown, the basal area suffused with fuscous except towards costa, a black discoidal lunule, a diffused fuseous subtermiual band. Hah. Mexico, Tabasco, Jalapa (TrujiUo), 1 5, Teapa (IT. H. Smith), 1 c^, type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp., S 36, $ 40 millim. 1141. Craterestra niveopicta. (Plate LXXVIII. fig. 26.) Perigea niveopic/a. Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 124, $. Perigea florinda, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 125, S- Head and thorax purplish brown mixed with some black, some of the scales tipped with grey; tarsi black with whitish rings ; abdomen brown, whitish at base. Fore wing brown irrorated with black and grey, and with a purplish gloss ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to vein 1, but interrupted in cell; antemedial line do
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