1&90 CATALOGUE OF 



transverse dark brown streak in the disk between the lines; marginal 

 lunules dark brown; under side white, ochraceous towards the base, 

 with a brown postmedial line and with a broad irregular brown sub- 

 marginal band. Fore wings elongated, acute, with three large 

 white costal patches; exterior border convex, very oblique ; under 

 side with a black anteraedial dot in the disk. Hind wings with the 

 exterior border slightly festooned. Length of the body 9 lines; of 

 the wings 25 lines. 



This species forms a link between Boarmia and Hypockroma. 

 Mysol. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus TEPHROSIA, C. L. H. xxi. 398. 

 Tephkosia scripturaria. 

 Mas et fopm. Pallide cinerea, fusca conspersa ; caput fusco 

 bifasciatum; palpi fusci, breves, oblique ascendents, apice 

 cinerei; thorax fusco bifascialus, fascia postica alba brevi ; 

 ala? ffutta fusca, linea postmedia nigra subangulosa fusco 

 nebulosa, linea submarginali albida dentata, linea marginali 

 nigra ; antics linea antemedia nigra angulosa, margine exte- 

 riore vix dentato ; postica margine exteriore dentato. 

 Male and female. Pale cinereous, brown-speckled. Head with 

 two brown bands. Palpi brown, except at the tips, obliquely 

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

 small. Thorax with two brown bands and with an abbreviated 

 posterior white band. Wings with a black postmedial slightly zig- 

 zag line, of which the borders are mostly clouded with brown ; a 

 brown dot in the disk; a whitish incomplete acutely dentate sub- 

 marginal line; marginal festoon black; underside without markings, 

 except a blackish dot in the disk. Fore wings with a black zigzag 

 antemedial line, which is retracted near the^costa; exterior borde*r 

 slightly scalloped. Hind wings with the exterior border distinctly 

 scalloped. Female.— Wings more clouded with brown than those of 

 the male. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 

 fl— c. Java. Presented by the Secretary of the India Board. 



Tephrosia inceptaria. 



Foem. Pallide cinerea, fusco conspersa; palpi breves, oblique 



# ascendentes ; alee puncto lineaque postmedia dentata niqris, 



fascia submarginali fusca diffusa lineam angulosam pallide 



cineream includente, lunulis marginalibus nigris, fimbria 



