in the Collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq. 101 



Wings rather broad. Fore-wings slightly rounded at the tips ; 

 costa almost straight; exterior border hardly oblique. 

 Allied to Mods, Hubn. 



Asthana erecta, 



■ Mas. — Pallide cervina, capite thoraceque antico obscurloribus, 

 alis anticis lineis interiore et sub-marginali fuscescentibus un- 

 dulatis indistinctis, macula postica nigricante, fasci^ sub- 

 marginali fused recta optime determinata non obliqud, orbi- 

 culari nigra punctiformi, reniformi e punctis duobus nigris, 



Male. — 'Pale fawn-colour, pale luteous beneath. Head and 

 forepart of the thorax deeper fawn-colour. Wings with black 

 marginal points. Fore-wings with the interior and the sub- 

 marginal lines brownish, slender, undulating, indistinct, the latter 

 terminating hindward in a blackish spot, which adjoins a straight, 

 upright, very distinct brown band ; orbicular mark black, puncti- 

 form ; reniform mark of two black points. Hind-wings beneath 

 with a blackish discal mark, and an exterior curved blackish line, 

 which is also apparent beneath the fore-wings. 



Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



Country unknown. 



Asthana d'lrecta, 



Mas. — Pallide cinerea, capite thoracisque tegulis cervinis, his 

 nigricante marginatis, palpis ascendentibus articulo So parvo, 

 antennis serratis ciliatis, abdomine longo attenuate, alis an- 

 ticis acutis nigricante sub-conspersis, guttis duabus discalibus 

 unaque basali liturisque duabus obliquis costalibus nigris, 

 lined exteriore cervina subrecta vix obliqud nigricante mar- 

 ginata, linea sub-marginali tenui angulosa punctisque mar- 

 ginalibus nigris. 

 Male. — Pale cinereous, slender. Head fawn-colour. Palpi 

 fawn-colour, compressed, fringed, ascending, rising higher than 

 the vertex ; 3rd joint conical, much more slender than the 2nd, 

 and about one-fourth of its length. Antennae serrate, ciliate. 

 Tegulae of the thorax fawn-coloured, blackish bordered. Abdo- 

 men thickly brown-speckled, attenuated, extending much beyond 

 the hind-wings. Tibiae sliglitly dilated ; tarsi much longer than 

 the tibiae ; spurs long. Fore-wings acute, thinly and irregularly 

 blackish-speckled, with a black discal dot near the base, with two 

 black dots representing the reniform mark, with two black oblique 

 costal marks, and with a fawn-coloured, almost straight and 

 upright exterior line, which is blackish-bordered on both sides 



