hciirs at the base. Fore wings black 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 postraedial, 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 METArH.35ARiA. Fcein Cinerea, subtus cervina; 

 palpis nigris oblique ascendentibus verticem non superautibus, 

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

 lato tegulis anticis nigricante marginatis, abdomine absque 

 posticis cervinis, alls anticis striga transversa basali annulo inter- 

 rupta linea antemedia transversa un<lulata maculis tribus lineaque 

 exteriore transversa angulosa fuscis, linea postmedia angulosa 

 palide fusca, guttis apud lineam exteriorem guttisque margin- 

 alibus nigris, spatiaj marginali pallidc fusco lineam albidam traus- 

 versam angulosam includente. 



Female. Cinereous, fawn colour l»eueatli. Palpi Idack, smooth, 

 moderately stout, obli(piely ascending, not rising higher than the 

 vertex; 2n(l joint white at the tip; 3rd linear, white at the base 

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

 slender. Fore tegulse of the thorax narrowly bordered with 

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

 Al)domen and hind wings fawn colour, the former hardly extend- 

 ing beyond tlie latter. Legs cinereous, stout; femora and til)iie 

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

 s])urs long, slender. Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips; a 

 dark Itrown transverse streak near the base, joining an inconq)lete 

 dark brown ringlet in the disk; an anti'inedial transv^'rse undu- 

 lating 1)ro\vu line accom}»anied by two dark brown sjxits, one 

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

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

 inner side; an exterior transverse zigzag ln'own line acconq)anied 

 l)y black dots; space from tlience to the. extei'ior Ijorder pale 

 blown, including a zig-zag ti'ansverse white line; marginal dots 

 black, l^ength of the l)ody (J lines; of the wings 17^ lines. 



(_;en. TiiKin'A. ■ ■ -""'^ 

 Mcs. Corpus (•) lindricum, sat valideni. Caput et thorax dense 



