1578 CATALOGUE OF 



Amphidasys Middendorfii. 



Middendorfii, Men. Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pet. Mel. Biol. iii. 112. 

 Bull. Phys. Math. Acad. St. Petersb. 1859. 



Amoor Region. 



Fam. BOARMIOE, C. L. H. xxi. 310. 



Genus HEMEROPHILA, C. L. H. xxi. 315. 



Hemerophila Bakcixonaria. 



Barcinonaria, Bellier, A. S. E. F. \me Ser. ii. 127, pi. I, f. 2. 



Barcelona. 



Hemerophila canidoesata. 



Foem. Ferruginea ; palpi breves, oblique ascendentes, articulo 

 3o minimo ; thorax cano latissime Jasciatus ; alee fusco stri- 

 gatce, lineis duabus nigris angulosis, margine exteriore denlato ; 

 anticce vitta latissima brevissima fasciisque duabus indeter- 

 minatis canis, puncto subcostali elongato nigricaate, punctis 

 duobus submarginalibus ehngatis albidis, spatio marginali 

 postice ochraceo ; postica? spatio marginali pallide ochraceo. 



Female. Ferruginous. Palpi moderately stout, obliquely 

 ascending, not rising so high as the vertex; third joint extremely 

 small. Thorax with a very broad hoary band. Wings ample, 

 transversely brown-streaked ; two black oblique zigzag lines, which 

 are acutely angular and retracted near the costa of the fore wings; 

 exterior border dentate. Fore wings acute ; a very broad and short 

 hoary stripe proceeding on each side from the band of the thorax ; 

 two irregular and incomplete hoary bands, one between the lines, 

 the other beyond the second liue ; a transversely elongated blackish 

 point in front of the outer side of the angle of the first line ; a broad 

 deep ochraceous space along the hind part of the exterior border 

 and behind three elongated whitish points on the veins; marginal 

 festoon black ; exterior border slightly convex, rather oblique ; under 

 side with two pale yellowish marginal patches, one apical, the other 

 near the interior angle. Hind wings with a pale ochraceuus 

 marginal space. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 

 20 lines. 



a. Ceylon. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



