EYPOPYPdnJE. 153 



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

 at one-fifth, trifid, thu'd from near base of second and fourth at four-fifths from base 

 of third, fifth from end of the cell and touching third close to its base ; discocellular 

 concave, radials from upper end and near lower end ; middle median from angle near 

 end of the cell, lower at two-fifths before the end ; submedian recurved from the 

 base : hindwing very broad, exterior margin convex, abdominal margin long ; cell 

 one-third the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular concave, 

 radial from near lower end ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at two- 

 fifths before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderate ; 

 abdomen slender in male; palpi ascending, second joint reaching vertex, rather 

 broad, compactly squamose, third joint lanceolate, half length of second ; antennae 

 long, ciliated ; legs long, fore femora and tibijB densely pilose, middle and hind 

 femora slightly pilose beneath, hind tibias rather long, spurs long, 

 Tyj)e, E. fautrix. 



ENTOMOGRAMMA POSTSTRIGARIA. 



Entomogramvia poststrigavia, Walker, Catal. Lep, Het. B. iM. xxxiii. p. 949 (1865), (?• 

 " Male, Brownish-cinereous. Wings narrow, rather long ; marginal festoon 



black : hindwing with an exterior testaceous brown-bordered slightly undulating 



line, which is accompanied on the inner side hindward by a deep black streak. 



AntennEe stout, broad, not more than half length of the body ; abdomen extending 



very little beyond the hindwings. 

 " Expanse 10 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker fi'om specimens in Mr, B. L. Layard's Collection, 



Genus TARAMINA. 

 Untomogramma (Sect. 2), Gueuee, Noct. iii. p. 204 (1852). 

 Wings similar in form and venation to typical Entomogramma. Differs in the 

 male having the antenna3 thick at the base, dilated, contorted, and flattened in the 

 middle of its length, its inner side being strongly pectinated to two-thirds of the 

 length, and the outer side minutely pectinated from the contortion; antennsB in 

 female setaceous ; legs long, fore femora and tibiae densely pilose, middle and hind 

 femora slightly pilose beneath, hind tibia3 shorter and thicker than in E. fautrix, 

 spurs long. 



TARAMINA TORSA (Plate 166, Fig. 2, $ ). 

 Entomogramma torsa, Gnonee, Noct. iii. p. 204 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1331. 

 Entomogramma squamicornis, Felder et Rogenh. Nov. Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 116, fig. 3 (1874), (?. 



Lilacine ochreous-grey : forewing with a t ransverse inwardly oblique slender 

 blackish antemedial, and a medial line, followed by a pale ochreous-bordered brown 

 VOL, III. x: 



