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lowish-marked. Fore-wings with black marks along the costa ; 

 interior line much like the exterior one, but slightly undulating ; 

 reniform mark composed of two black, pale-bordered dots ; 

 exterior line with two diffuse black spots by its outer border, one 

 discal, the other costal. 



Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



China. 



Genus Phurys, Guen. 

 Phurys continua. 

 Mas. — Cinereo-fusca, alis litura discali nigricante, alis anticis 

 acutis vix falcatis, lineis interiore et exteriore sub-obliquis 

 fere rectis pallide cinereis, linea submarginali undulata, alis 

 posticis lituris nullis. 

 Male. — Cinereous-brown, paler beneath. Proboscis rather 

 long. Palpi porrect, extending rather beyond the head ; 3rd 

 joint elongate, conical, more than half the length of the 2nd. An- 

 tennae simple. Legs thick ; tarsi slender ; hind-tibiae with four 

 long spurs. Wings with a pale marginal line at the base of the 

 fringe ; discal mark blackish, most distinct on the underside of 

 the hind-wings. Fore-wings acute, hardly subfalcate ; interior and 

 exterior lines pale cinereous, nearly straight and parallel, slightly 

 oblique ; sub-marginal line undulating, less distinct. Hind-wings 

 without markings. 



Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 14 lines. 



Genus AsTHANA, n. g. 



Mas. — Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi longi, com- 



pressi, oblique ascendentes, frontem paullo superantes ; arti- 



culus 3us conicus, brevissimus. Antennae pectinatae, ramis 



pubescentibus. Thorax tegulis quadratis. Abdomen lon- 



gissimum, sub-cylindricum, alas posticas longe superans. 



Pedes longiusculi, calcaribus inaequalibus. Alae latiusculse; 



anticae sub-rotundatse, costa fere recta, margine exteriore vix 



obliquo. 



Male. — Body rather slender. Proboscis short. Palpi long, 



compressed, obliquely ascending, rising a little higher than the 



front; 3rd joint conical, about one-sixth of the length of the 2nd. 



Antennae moderately pectinated to the tips ; branches pubescent. 



Tegulae of the thorax quadrate. Abdomen very long, nearly 



cylindrical, extending far beyond the hind-wings. Legs rather 



long; spurs of unequal length, one of the ist pair very long. 



