1580 CATALOGUE OF 



black bands. Abdomen with a broad blackish band on each seg- 

 ment; apical tuft pale ochraceous, rather long. Wings with two 

 blackish slightly zigzag lines; first line postmedial ; second nearer 

 the exterior border ; marginal lunules black ; under side with a black 

 spot in the disk. Fore wings with two ferruginous irregular incom- 

 plete bands; second band marginal, separated from the first by a 

 zigzag pale cinereous line, which has two black spots on its inner 

 side, one of these spots is costal; a blackish basal band which con- 

 tains a curved whitish line. Length of the body 5 lines; of the 

 wings 14 lines. 



a. North Hindostan. From Mr. Russell's collection. 



Cleora velutinaria. 



Mas et fceui. Albida (mas) aut alba (fcem.) ; palpi porrecti, 

 graciles, supra niqricontes ; antenna maris late pectinate, 

 apices versus simplices ; tibiae posticce maris subdilatata ; ala? 

 latce, atomis, macula albido punctata lineaque postmedia 

 duplicata. undulata denlata viridi-fuscis, guttis antemediis, 

 strigis exterioribus guttisque submaryinalibus elongatis nigri- 

 cantibus, guttis marginalibus nigris ; posticce fimbria dentata. 



Male. Whitish, white beneath. Palpi porrect, slender, ex- 

 tending a little beyond the head, blackish above, except at the 

 tips; third joint very minute. Antennae broadly pectinated for 

 three-fourths of the length. Abdomen much shorter than the in- 

 terior border of the hind wings; apical tuft very small. Legs 

 smooth, slender; hind tibia? slightly dilated. Wings broad, with 

 greenish brown speckles; some blackish antemedial dots; a post- 

 medial double undulating dentate greenish brown line, accompanied 

 by blackish streaks; a greenish brown spot in the disk, containing 

 a whitish point ; a submarginal slightly undulating line of blackish 

 elongated dots; marginal dots black; under side with a black spot 

 in the disk and a black apical patch; these are much larger iu the 

 fore wings than iu the hind wings. Fore wings slightly acute, with 

 six blackish costal spois ; exterior border very slightly convex, rather 

 oblique. Hind wings with a dentate fringe. Female. — White. 

 Markings of the wings like those of the male, but more concise. 

 Fore wings less attenuated towards the tips. Hind wings with the 

 fringe of the exterior border less dentate. Length of the body 

 4£ — 5 lines; of the wings 17 — 18 lines. 



a. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Digues' collection. 



b. Swan River. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



