104 CHARACTERS OF UNDERCUT P.KD 



cinereous-bordered; under side brownish cinereous. Fore wings 

 acute, with an antemodial zigzag brown line; reniform mark brown- 

 bordered; four cinereous costal points near the tip; exterior border 

 hardly angular in the middle. Length of the body "> lines ; of the 

 wings 10 lines. 



Genus TEGTEZA. 



Mas.- Corpus gracile. Caput fascicule parvo erecto. Proboscis 

 brevis. Palpi graciles, compressi, oblique ascendentes, capitis lati- 

 tudine multo longiores ; articulus 3us linearis, 2o non brcvior, 

 iimbria angulata. Antennae graciles, sorrata 1 , setos;c Abdomen 

 lanceolatum, alas posticas paullo supcrans; fasciculus apicalis parvus 

 compressus. Pedes longi, graciles, iimbri;iti. Abe anticie longse, 

 apice obtuse, margine exteriore antico subangulato ; alre posticre 

 margine exteriore apicem versus sinuato. 



Male. Body slender. Head with a small porrect tuft in front. 

 Proboscis short. Palpi compressed, obliquely ascending, much longer 

 than the breadth of the head, hardly rising higher than the vertex ; 

 third joint linear, as long as the second, with an angular fringe 

 above. Antennae slender, serrated, the branches terminating in 

 bristles. Thorax squamous, the scales intermingled with long hairs. 

 Abdomen tapering, extending a little beyond the hind wings ; apical 

 tuft small, compressed. Legs long, slender; femora and tibia? 

 fringed; spurs long, slender. Wings long, moderately broad. Fore 

 wings obtuse at the tips ; costa almost straight ; exterior border 

 slightly angular at one-third of its length from the tip, its hind part 

 vry oblique; second inferior vein much nearer to the first than to 

 the third: third nearly ten times further from the fourth than from 

 the second. Hind wings with the exterior border sinuated near the 

 tip. 



3. TEGTEZA PALPAI.IS. Mas. Cinerea, fascicule frontal! et anten- 

 narum articulo 2o extus fuscis, alis fusco conspersis fascia media 

 fuscescente obliqua diffusa indistincta lunulis marginalibus parvis 

 nigricantibus, alis anticis apud costam obscure fuscis linea antemedia 

 fiisca obliqua fascia postmedia fuscescente indistincta litura sub- 

 costali alba obliqua clavata angulosa. 



Male. Cinereous. Frontal tuft brown. Second joint of the 

 palpi brown on the outer side. Wings brown-speckled, with a diffuse 

 oblique indistinct brownish middle band and with small blackish 

 marginal lunules. Fore wings dark brown along the costa; an 

 oblique zigzag brown line near the base; a brownish band bevond 

 the middle band and equally indistinct; a clavate zigzag oblique 

 white streak near the costa along the outer side of the second band. 

 Wings beneath partly clouded with brown, with a blackish discoidal 



