i^70 Mr. F. Walker's Characters of undescrihed Lepidoptera 



cente callido marginata, lineis diiabus exterioribus nigris 

 angulosis, litura discali cinerea paiva indistincta nigro-mar- 

 ginata, alis anticis flavescente-cervinis vix falcatis apicibus 

 purpurascente-albidis. 



Male. — Ochiaceous-tawny. Head hoary, with a black hind 

 border. Antennae hoary, broadly pectinated, with pale testaceous 

 branches. Legs mostly hoary. Wings very broad, with a dark 

 reddish, pale-bordered, straight, oblique line, and with two ex- 

 terior black zigzag lines : discal mark small, indistinct, cinereous, 

 black-bordered, white and distinct beneath ; underside yellowish- 

 fawn colour; space beyond the 1st line purplish-reddish, with a 

 cinereous tinge. Fore-wings yellowish fawn-colour, shining, with 

 a slight tendency to the falcate form ; tips diffusedly purplish- 

 whitish. Hind-wings- much rounded; interior angle very pro- 

 minent, but rounded ; interior border very densely pilose. 



Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



Moreton Bay, Australia. 



Genus Jana, Boisd. 



■ Jana semirosea. 



Mas. — Rufescente ochracea, antennis latissime pectinatis, alis 

 anticis acutis nigro sub-conspersis, lineis tribus nigricantibus 

 obliquis sub-rectis, linea sub-marginali nigricante angulosa 

 indistincta, litura discali parva nigra, alis posticis laete roseo- 

 rufis. 



Male. — Reddish-ochraceous. Antennae pale testaceous, very 

 broadly pectinated. Fore-wings acute, very minutely black- 

 speckled, with three oblique, nearly straight, blackish lines ; sub- 

 marginal line blackish, zigzag, indistinct ; discal mark small, 

 black ; costa convex ; exterior border slightly festooned. Hind- 

 wings above, like the abdomen, bright rosy red; underside with 

 four indistinct, brownish, denticulated lines, of which the 3rd is 

 accompanied by black points. 



Length of the body 16 lines ; of the wings 38 lines. 



Hindostan. 



Genus Rhagonis, n. g. 



Mas. — Corpus robustum, pilis longis vestitum. Proboscis 

 brevissima. Palpi porrecti, brevissimi. Antennae late pec- 

 tinatse, corporis dimidio longiores. Abdomen alas pos- 

 ticas non superans. Pedes breviusculi ; tibiae posticae cal- 

 caribus breviusculis. Alae latiusculae; antice apicae sulj- 



