October 1S93.] 



PSYCHE. 



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wanting. The primaries are relatively by incomplete transverse median, transve 



longer and more sharply produced, and the 

 abdomen is relatively longer. (Cf. Hamp- 

 son, Fauna of British India, Moths, v. i, 

 p. 135, for neuration of Gargetta.). Type 5. 

 modesta, Holland. 



Scrancia modesta, Holl., 3. (See plate 17, tig. 33.) 



187. 5. modesta-, sp. nov. $ . Lower side 

 of palpi and collar pale fulvous; front paler; 

 culmen of antennae pale grayish; setae tes- 

 taceous; patagia hoary-gray ; abdomen above 

 and below together with the legs obscure 

 fuscous-ochraceous. The primaries are gray 

 showing a lilacine reflection on the inner 

 and outer margins. At the base they are 

 clouded with brownish, and are crossed by 

 obscure geminate transverse basal, trans- 

 verse median, and transverse limbal zigzag 

 brown lines, the spaces between which are 

 slightly paler than the body of the wing. 

 On the inner margin, where the transverse 

 limbal band terminates, there is a dark brown 

 dot. Beyond the transverse limbal line, the 

 neurations are marked with narrow blackish 

 rays, each interrupted on the middle by a 

 small white dot. There is an angulated sub- 

 marginal series of obscure grayish lines. The 

 margin is accentuated on the interspaces by 

 brownish linear dots. The fringes are uni- 

 formly brown. At the end of the cell, there is 

 an obscure brownish discal mark crossed by 

 two narrow parallel transverse darker lines. 

 The secondaries are uniformly pale fuscous 

 shading into creamy on the costa. On the 

 under side both wings are dusky, traversed 



limbal, and transverse submarginal bands of 

 brown. 



$ . The female is like the male save in the 

 respects pointed out in the description of the 

 genus. Expanse, J and $. 48 mm. 



Catarctia, gen. nov. 



Palpi hairy, porrect, compressed; second 

 joint long; third joint obsolescent and almost 

 concealed by the hairy vestiture at the extrem- 

 ity of the second joint. Antennae short, 

 bipectinated to the tips; setae in the female 

 somewhat shorter than in the male. Legs of 

 the male very hairy; of the female less hairy. 

 The tibiae of the second pair are armed with 

 a terminal spur; of the third pair armed with 

 a subterminal and double terminal spurs. 

 The primaries of the male are produced, with 

 the costa rounded before the apex ; apex 

 truncate; outer margin produced at second 

 median nervule, the margin forming an 

 obtuse angle at this point; inner margin 

 nearly straight. Secondaries suboval with 

 all the margins evenly rounded. In the 

 primaries, vein five springs from the upper 

 discocellular one-third of the distance above 

 the point at which it describes an angle 

 directed inwardly with the lowerdiscocellular. 

 Vein seven is emitted from vein ten bevoiul 

 the cell. Veins eight and nine are very short, 

 stalked, the stalk being emitted from vein ten 

 before the apex. Vein eleven is emitted from 

 the cell near its upper angle. In the secon- 

 daries, vein one has two branches: veins m\ 

 and seven are stalked ; vein eight converges 

 beyond its origin toward the cell, and then 

 diverges widely. Type C. (Arctia 1 1 divi'sa, 

 Walker. (Cf. Walker's List, v. iii. p. 765.) 



Walker described two insects under the 

 name Arc/id divi'sa, one an Indian insecti 

 which is identical according to Kirby with 

 Arctia leopardina, Koll. The other insect, 

 which Walker referred with doubt to the 

 genus Arctia. was from Sierra Leone. I have 

 examined Walker's type, which is a male, 

 and have compared it with specimens in my 



