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RUSICADA ICONICA. 

 Anomis iconica, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 992 (1857), $. 



"Female. Reddish fawn colour, whitish beneath : forewings slightly tinged 

 with shining purple, with three indistinct diffuse undulating blackish bands, and 

 with a row of submarginal blackish dots; reniform spot indicated by a blackisli 

 mark ; tips somewhat rounded ; exterior border nearly straight, hardly oblique : 

 hindwing pale cinereous, with an seneous tinge. Abdomen pale cinereous, and with 

 a metallic tinge. 



"Expanse 16 lines." 



Genus THALATTA. 

 Thalatta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 996 (1857). 



Forewing short, moderately broad, almost straight in front, acute at the apex, 

 exterior margin angular in the middle ; cell narrow, extending more than half the 

 length ; first subcostal emitted at nearly one-half before end of the cell, second at 

 one-fifth, trifid, fifth from eud of the cell and joined to third by a short spur near its 

 base ; discocellular slightly concave, bent at each end, radials from the angles ; 

 middle median from close to end of the cell, lower at two-fifths before the end ; sub- 

 median curved at the base : hindwing short, broad, convex externally ; two subcostals 

 from end of the cell ; discocellular very slender, radial from near lower end ; two 

 upper medians from end of the cell, lower at two-fifths ; submedian and internal vein 

 straight. Body moderately slender, palpi long, slender, obliquely ascending, second 

 joint reaching level of the eyes, laxly squamose, third joint long, more than half 

 length of second, lanceolate ; antennse minutely pectinated ; femora and tibife densely 

 clothed with long hairs. (Ti/pe, T. precedens.) 



THALATTA MODESTA (Plate 153, Fig. 5). 



Thalatta modesta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 22. 

 Forewing purple-brown ; crossed by a postmedial indistinct pale-bordered brown 

 line : hindwing cinereous-brown. Body, palpi, and legs brown. 

 Expanse 1-ny inch. 



THALATTA ALBIORBIS (Plate 153, Fig. 6). 

 Thalatta albiorbis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 22. 

 Forewing dark purplish-brown; crossed by a postmedial indistinct outwardly 

 oblique waved brown line ; a prominent pure white orbicular spot : hindwing greyish- 

 brown ; cilia white. Underside purplish greyish-brown : hindwing brown speckled. 

 Palpi and legs dark purple-brown. 

 Expanse Itu inch. 



