136 Mr. T. B. Fl^R*lier on the genus Deutcrocopus. 
erected scales. Thorax golden-ferruginous, mottled with darker; 
pectus pale-yellow. Abdomen large and stout, golden-ferruginous 
sprinkled with darker ; first two segments pale-yellow, third segment 
with indications of a whitish semi-circrrlar spot on posterior margin 
preceded by darker, posterior margins of third and succeeding seg¬ 
ments faintly outlined in whitish scaling; ventral surface pale- 
yellow. Foreleg whitish-ferruginous-golden, tibia with slight indi¬ 
cation of scale-tuft at apex. Midleg bright ferruginous-golden, tibia 
lined with whitish beneath and banded with whitish before apex 
where a dark-ferruginous scale-tuft emits a pair of short equal spurs ; 
tarsi whitish. [Hindlegs broken.] 
Fore wing cleft from about first segment narrow, second again 
cleft from slightly beyond half its own length : bright ferruginous- 
golden : costa blackish to J, a short blackish shade along dorsum, 
a blackish longitudinal subcostal spot at a blackish suffusion along 
costa at ^ leading into first segment and broadly continued down¬ 
wards into disc but not reaching dorsum ; two black dots preceding 
cleft, one above base of cleft, the other below ; first segment with 
costal area suffused with black to cut at ^ by an inwardly-oblique 
black line, area beyond this wholly black except for a small whitish 
dot on hinder-margin at | ; second segment with a longitudinal 
whitish spot at area beyond this (including both subsegments) 
suffused wdth blackish ; first subsegment with a whitish spot at ^ of 
its length, second subsegment with a few whitish-ochreous scales near 
its base. Cilia on costa blackish, on first quarter of first segment 
ferruginous-golden ; within cleft blackish, w'hitish-ochreous in central 
third and with a narrow jjale-ochreous wisp at hinder-angle of first 
segment ; on hinder-margin of first subsegment blackish to i, then 
whitish-ochreous to just before apex, where blackish ; on fore-margin 
of second subsegment blackish ; on dorsum blackish with black scale- 
tufts beneath base of each cleft, area between these tufts whitish- 
ochreous 
Hindwing cleft from | and from near base ; golden-ferruginous, 
first two .segments suffused with blackish. Cilia blackish ; on third 
segment whitish-ochreous with a large blackish-ferruginous apical 
scale-tooth on both margins, a few scattered blackish scales on fore- 
margin and a small blackish scale-tooth on dorsum slightly before 
Although the two forms, ritscmae, Wlsm., and rubro- 
dactylus, Pag., appear abundantly distinct when contrasted 
with one another, a long series soon reveals a complete 
gradation between them, nor does the development or 
suppression of the pure-white markings on the forewing 
and abdomen seem to follow the geographical distribution 
