bombycoidjj:. 5 



minutely ciliated : legs rather long, tibiae thickish, clothed with short hairs, middle 

 with two short spurs and hind tibiae with four long spurs. 

 Type, H. strigosa. 



HYBOMA FASCIATA (Plate 144, Fig. 4, S)- 



Male: forewing vinaceous brownish-grey; with a blackish longitudinal fascia 

 extending from base of wing below the cell to exterior margin above the angle, the 

 fascia partly interrupted in the middle by a broad pale whitish posterior streak, and 

 by two transverse antemedial pale-bordered blackish sinuous lines and two postmedial 

 denticulated lines ; some black marks along the costal edge ; orbicular spot large, 

 with a black outer line and pale inner border ; reniform spot large, indistinct ; a 

 marginal pale-bordered blackish denticulated line ; cilia alternated with black : 

 hindwing pale cinereous-brown, with pale brownish outer border. Body cinereous 

 brownish-grey ; legs brown, with pale tarsal bands. 



Expanse If inch. 



Described and figured from specimens obtained from the collection of the late 

 Dr. Thwaites. 



Genus PLATAPLECTA. 



Plataplecta, Butler, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 195. 

 Forewing more elongated and narrower than in Ilyboma ; exterior margin more 

 oblique ; venation similar in both wings. Body stouter ; palpi long, ascending to 

 vertex, compactly squamose ; legs stout ; middle and hind tibige densely clothed with 

 long hairy scales, spurs stout ; antennas setose. 



PLATAPLECTA PRUINOSA (Plate 144, Fig. 3). 

 Acronycta pruinosa, Gueuee, Noct. i. p. 53 (1852). 

 Folia soluta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 723 (1865). 

 Plataplecta soluta, Butler, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1878, p. 195. 



Forewing cinereous-grey, minutely brown speckled : crossed by basal, subbasal 

 and medial diffused blackish sinuous lines, a recurved discal more sharply defined 

 duplex denticulated line, and a marginal row of lunular points ; a slight blackish 

 streak extends below the base of the cell and a more distinct streak fi'om below 

 the lower median vein ; orbicular spot large, whitish ; reniform spot large, defined 

 by a slender blackish line : hindwing pale brownish-cinereous, darkest externally ; 

 cilia alternately white and pale brown. Body cinereous-grey, palpi with dark brown 

 lateral band ; tarsi with brown bauds. 



Expanse, c? If, ? If inch. 



