34G PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



hairs at the base. Fore wings bhick speckled, clouded with 

 brown; three irregular zig-zag black lines; 1st line very near the 

 base, not extending to the interior border; 2nd antemedial, 

 emitting an oblique branch to the 3rd, which is postmedial, and 

 partly white bordered; marginal points black. Hind wings 

 brown, cinereous and slightly hyaline towards the base. Length 

 of the body 8-9 lines; of the wings 1 8 lines. 



29. Tachosa metaph^aria. Foem Cinerea, subtus cervina; 

 palpis nigris oblique ascendentibus verticem non superantibus, 

 articulo 3° lineari basi apice que albo, thorace fusco-quadrimacu- 

 lato tegulis anticis nigricante marginatis, abdomine alisque 

 jjosticis cervinis, alls anticis striga transversa basali annulo inter- 

 rupta linea antemedia transversa undulata maculis tribus lineaque 

 exteriore ti'ansversa angulosa fuscis, linea postmedia angulosa 

 palide fusca, guttis apud lineam exteriorem guttisque margin- 

 alibus nigris, spatiae marginali pallide fusco lineam albidam trans- 

 versam an^ulosam includente. 



Female. Cinereous, fawn colour beneath. Paljji black, smooth, 

 moderately stout, obliquely ascending, not rising higher than the 

 vertex; 2nd joint white at the tip; 3rd linear, white at the base 

 and at the tip, less than half the length of the 2nd. Antennaj 

 slender. Fore tegulae of the thorax narrowly bordered with 

 blackish in front; two brown spots on each of the hind tegulae. 

 Abdomen and hind wings fawn colour, the former hardly extend- 

 ing beyond the latter. Legs cinereous, stout; femora and tibiae 

 fringed; tips of the latter and of the joints of the tarsi whitish; 

 spurs long, slender. Fore Avings slightly rounded at the tips; a 

 dark brown transverse streak near the base, joining an incomjilete 

 dark brown ringlet in tlie disk; an antemedial transverse undu- . 

 lating brown line accompanied by two dark brown spots, one 

 costal, the other discoidal; a zig-zag pale brown slightly post- 

 medial transverse line, with a dark brown discoidal spot on its 

 inner side; an exterior transverse zig-zag brown line accompanied 

 by black dots; space from thence to the exterior border pale 

 brown, including a zig-zag transverse white line; marginal dots 

 black. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 17J lines. 



Gen. TuERTA. 

 Mas. Corpus cylindricum, sat validem. Caput ot thorax dense 



