1% CHARACTERS OF UNDESCB1BED 



under side with an incomplete stripe of cinereous black-bordered 

 spots. Legs white ; a black postmedial band on each of the femora 

 and of the tibia3 ; tarsi black, their joints white towards the base. 

 Fore wings with four or five oblique bands of irregular black-bordered 

 dark cinereous spots, and with a regular marginal band of cinereous 

 black-bordered dots. Hind wings white, semihyaline, with a black 

 dot by the interior angle. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 

 21 lines. 



Most allied to E. indecisa and to E. degenera, chiefly distinguished 

 from the former by the markings of the thorax and from the latter by 

 the markings of the abdomen. 



19. AEDICES LITURATA. Fcem. Testaceo-alba, capite antice nigro, 

 palpis nigris brevissimis articulo 3o lanceolate, thorace guttis duabus 

 vittisque tribus nigris, pectoris lateribus nigricantibus, abdomine supra 

 ochraceo vittis tribus nigris macularibus vittis duabus ventralibus 

 nigris macularibus, femoribus anticis supra rufis tibiis supra nigris, 

 alis anticis vitta discoidali clavata latissima fascia exteriore obliqua 

 bis interrupta strigis costalibus et posticis maculisque marginalibus 

 elongatis nigris fimbria uigro albo notata, alis posticis nigricantibus 

 spatio marginal! albo nigricante maculate. 



Female. Testaceous-white. Head black in front. Proboscis tes- 

 taceous, very short and slender. Palpi black, very short; third joint 

 lanceolate, much shorter than the second. Antennae black. Thorax 

 with a diffuse black dot on each of the fore tegulse, with a black stripe 

 on each of the hind tegulee and with a black middle stripe. Pectus 

 blackish on each side. Abdomen above ochraceous, with three macular 

 black stripes ; under side with two macular black stripes. Fore 

 femora red-lead colour above ; middle femora with a red tinge near 

 their tips above ; tarsi and fore tibia3 black ; posterior tibiae black 

 above. Wings with white veins. Fore wings with a clavate very 

 broad black stripe in the disk ; an exterior oblique twice-interrupted 

 black band ; some black streaks along the costa ; some broader and 

 longer black streaks along the exterior border ; a row of elongated 

 black spots along the exterior border; fringe black, with white 

 intervals. Hind wings blackish ; exterior border irregularly white, 

 its fore part with five irregular blackish spots. Length of the body 

 8 lines ; of the wings 25 lines. 



The markings of the wings are very different from those of 

 A. fulvohirta. 



20. HALESIDOTA VITBTPENNIS. Fcem.- Albido-testacea, capite 

 subtus ochraceo punctis duohus fronteque lineam longitudinalem 

 albam includente nigris, palpis nigris oblique ascendcntibus subtus 



