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broader at the tip, third joint somewhat sliorter and more slender ; legs more thickly 

 and laxly clothed, hind tarsi naked; antennas more thickly ciliated. 

 Tyjie, C. Archesia. 



CAUNINDA ARCHESIA (Plate 172, Fig. 2,, S , 3a, larva). 

 Phalivna Noctua Archesia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 145, pi. 273, fig. F. G. (1782), ?. 

 Drasteria Archesia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schinett. p. 280. 



Eeniigia Archesia, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 318 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1504. 

 Phal. Noctua Virbia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 146, pi. 273, fig. H. (1782), S . 

 Bemigia bifasciata. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 1014 (1863), $ . 



Pale jDurpurescent ferruginous-brown : forewing crossed by a short pale-bordered 

 darker browni subbasal costal line, a prominent dark ferruginous-brown outwardly 

 oblique antemedial band, followed by two slender brown undulated medial lines, 

 which pass between a brown orbicular and reniform mark, beyond which is a similar 

 slender irregular discal line, the latter being encompassed by an angulated dark 

 ferruginous-brown fascia ; crossing the submargin is a black-pointed denticulated 

 line, and the extreme outer margin is clouded with dark ferruginous-brown ; some 

 specimens have a more or less greyish-black spot at the lower outer end of the ante- 

 medial band, and in some there is also a blackish spot before this band below the 

 submedian vein : hindwing with a narrow waved discal and a broad submarginal 

 ferruginous-black fascia, the latter having a sinuous outer border and traversed by a 

 short pale sinuous anal streak ; marginal line also blackish. Body pale ferruginous- 

 brown j thorax, head, palpi, and forelegs darker brown. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Larva semi-looped; with twelve legs; the dorsal and undersurface purplish-brown, 

 minutely black dotted, the sides yellowish and longitudinally lined with red and a 

 sublateral row of minute black dots : head with a brown and red lateral streak ; front 

 legs red, middle and hind legs brown. Pupa reddish ; efflorescent. 



"Feeds on Desmodimn." (Thwaites.) 



Family FOCILLIDJE. 



Fore and hindwings angular ; alike in colour and with similar markings, which 

 are conspicuous beneath. Body moderately stout, thorax somewhat pilose, abdomen 

 with dorsal tufts ; palpi very erect, third joint very large and long, slender ; antennae 

 slender, pubescent in the male ; legs long, hardly pilose. 



Genus ZETHES. 

 Zethes, Rambur, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ii. p. 29 (1S33), Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 329; Walker, Catal. 

 Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1522. 

 Wings broad : forewing triangular, costa arched at the end, apex acute, exterior 

 margin oblique, angular in the middle; cell extending to half the length ; first sub- 



