64 ZYG^NID^. — PSTCHID.E. 



Chalcosia pretiosa, IFlk. 



Chalcosia pretiosa, Wlh. Cat. xxxi. p. 116. 



A variety occurs with the white bands on fore wing broad in both sexes, and a more or 

 less complete series of small white spots across the apex. The female of this form has au 

 additional white spot ou the hind wing beyond the end of the cell. 



Var. albina. (Plate CLVII. fig. 5.) 



Expanse, 6 Ih 2 1§ inch. 



Male. This is the extreme form, the broad-banded variety, of C. pretiosa with the sub- 

 apical white spots, from which it differs in having a white patch below the cell of the fore 

 wing, and in the whole hind wing being white, except a small basal blue patch ; and a marginal 

 blue baud, broad at apex and not reaching anal angle. 



Female without the white patch below the cell of the fore wing ; hind wing with a larger 

 basal blue patch, and the marginal blue band confined to the centre and outer margin ; a 

 large lunulate subapical black spot and a smaller spot below it on the blue band. 



The underside of hind wing in both sexes is pure white, except for two black spots towards 

 the apex. 



PSYCHID^. 

 PSYCHING. 



Lomera cana*. (Plate CLIX. fig. 21 & Plate CLXXVI. fig. 8.) 



Expanse ,$ 1 inch. 



Male. Antennae heavily bipectinated. Head white ; thorax and abdomen pale ochreous 

 brown. Fore leg with a long femoro-tibial process. Wings sparsely covered with hair-like 

 greyish-fuscous scales. Fore wing with the two internal veins anastomosing, the lower giving 

 off a branch towards inner margin ; the upper radial absent; the third, fourth, and fifth sub- 

 costals stalked. Hind wing with the lower subcostal absent ; a bar between the subcostal 

 and costal nervures. Veiulets in cell of both wings single. 



Larva-case rather smooth and covered with comminuted vegetable scales and fibres. 



BRACHYCYTTARUS, g. n. 



Male. Antennae bipectinated, with the branches long and plumose, and decreasing in 

 length distally. Head small ; thorax and abdomen slender. Fore leg with a tibial process 



* This should be placed iu Oikcticoides, Heyl. 



