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nigra lincolam argenteam interruptam includente, alls posticis cinereo 

 fuscis firabria cinerea. 



Female. Wood-colour or cinereous-tawny, more cinereous beneath. 

 Palpi striped with brown on the outer side. Fore tegulse of the 

 thorax dark brown, with an undulating transverse whitish line ; hind 

 tegulse with some black speckles ; hind part with a large conical 

 blackish spot. Pectus with a broad blackish stripe. Fore wings 

 with some blackish speckles ; two black marks on the interior border, 

 one near the base, the other at two-thirds of the length, both indica- 

 tions of transverse lines which elsewhere are almost or quite obsolete ; 

 a black discal streak extending from the middle of the length to the 

 exterior border and including a little interrupted silvery line. Hind 

 wings cinereous- brown ; fringe cinereous. Length of the body 

 12 lines ; of the wings 34 lines. 



Limar. 



Genus TURUPTIANA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum, fere cylindricum. Proboscis brevissima. 

 Palpi laeves, breves, validi, subangulati, oblique ascendentes, articulo 

 3o conico minimo. Antennas mediocriter pectinatae. Abdomen alas 

 posticas longe superans ; fasciculus apicalis minimus. Pedes validi, 

 dense pilosi. Ala? anticae longae, angustae, apice rotundatse, margine 

 exteriore subconvexo perobliquo. 



Male. Body stout, nearly cylindrical. Proboscis very short. 

 Palpi smooth, stout, obliquely ascending, not rising near so high as 

 the vertex ; third joint conical, very minute, more slightly ascending 

 than the second, with which it forms a very obtuse angle. Antennae 

 moderately pectinated. Abdomen extending much beyond the hind 

 wings ; apical tuft very small. Legs stout ; femora and tibiae densely 

 clothed. Wings long, narrow. Fore wings rounded at the tips ; 

 exterior border slightly convex, very oblique ; first, second and third 

 inferior veins almost contiguous at the base ; fourth remote from the 

 third ; two superior veins. 



The structure of the palpi and of the antennae distinguish this 

 genus from Cerura. 



31. TURUPTIANA OBLIQUA. Mas. Argenteo-alba, corpore subtus 

 et abdomine luteis, capite autice fusco, alis anticis costa fasciaque 

 obliquo fuscis. 



Male. Silvery white. Body luteous beneath. Head brown in front. 

 Palpi and antennae brown. Thorax brown about the fore border. Ab- 

 domen luteous. Foro wings with a brown costa and with a brown 

 band, which extends from a little beyond one-third of the length of the 



