LIPAEIBM. 95 



bent outward near upper end, lower end concave, slender, radial from the upper 

 angle ; two upper medians from angles above end of the cell, second at one-tenth 

 and first or lower at one-sixth before end of the cell ; submedian curving downward 

 from its base : hindwing short, broadly triangular, exterior margin very convex ; 

 subcostal joined to costal for a short distance near its base ; two subcostal branches 

 on a footstalk one-fourth beyond the cell ; discocellular deeply concave ; upper 

 median from angle above end of the cell, two middle medians from acute angle at 

 end of the cell, first or lower median at more than one-third before the end ; submedian 

 and internal vein straight. Thorax robust, abdomen extending beyond the wing, tufted 

 at apex ; palpi porrect, projecting beyond the head, thick, densely pilose beneath, apex 

 truncated ; antennee broadly bipectinated, legs and tarsi pilose. Female. Wings 

 longer : forewing much produced at the apex, costa very convex : hindwing slightly 

 produced at the apex ; antennae finely pectinated ; all the legs and tarsi more hairy. 



PSALIS SECURIS (Plate 115, Fig. 1, la, c? 5, 15, larva). 



Psalis securis, Hiibner, Zutrage, Samml. Exot. Schmett. pt. ii. p. 19, fig. 291-2 (1823) g; Moore, 



Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. ii. p. 338, pi. 14, fig. 12, 12a. 

 Deprana securis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. vii. p. 1762. 

 Arestha antica, Walker, id. iv. p. 805 (1855), $. 

 Bigema falcata, Walker, id. xxxii. p. 437 (1865), 5 . 

 Anticyra approximata. Walker, id. xxxii. p. 440, g. 



Male and female : forewing pale brownish-ochreous, with a dai'k purplish grey- 

 brown longitudinal medial band widening from the base to the exterior margin, the 

 posterior border with a few scattered black scales, and a minute black spot above the 

 angle ; cilia alternated with grey and brown : hindwing pale ochreous-white. Body 

 pale brownish-ochreous ; antennge, palpi, and legs above ochreous-brown. 



Expanse, ^ If, 9 If inch. 



Larva black, with a few ochreous hairs along the back and black hairs from the 

 sides, two long tufts of black hairs projected in front of the head and a tuft from 

 anal segment; a short dense dorsal tuft of red hairs on fifth to eighth segments, and 

 a smaller tuft on tenth and eleventh segments ; a dorsal and lateral row of green 

 spots, and a similar coloured lower lateral line ; head and legs red. Cocoon fusiform, 

 olivaceous-green. Pupa olivaceous-green, hairy, thorax and wing cases black, 

 abdominal segments with longitudinal black streaks. 



" Feeds on grasses." (Thwaites.) 



Genus OLENE. 



Olene, Hiibner, Zutriige, Samml. Exot. Schmett. fig. 293-4 (1823). 

 Nioda, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1069 (1855). 

 Rilia, Walker, id. v. p. 1075 (1855). 



Male : forevring elongated, narrow, exterior margin oblique ; first subcostal 



