1608 CATALOGUE OF 



Thalassodes urapteearia. 



Foem. Pallide ochracea ; caput nigrum, vertice albido ; palpi 

 nigrij graciles, porrecti, subtus pallidi, caput superantes ; alee 

 latissimce, linea postmedia albida angulosa, spado exteriore 

 subviridi, linea marginali nigra, fascia subtus nigra lata ; 

 anticcB peracuta, subfalcata, margine exteriore recto ; posticce 

 caudatce. 



Female. Pale ochraceous. Head black ; vertex whitish. 

 Palpi black, smooth, slender, porrect, pale beneath, extending some- 

 what beyond the head, but much shorter than its breadth ; third 

 joint lanceolate, about half the length of the second. Abdomen 

 very much shorter than the interior border of the hind wings. Legs 

 smooth, slender. Wings very broad ; a zigzag whitish postmedial 

 line; space between the line and the exterior border dull green; 

 marginal line black ; fringe white, interlined with blackish ; under 

 side with a broad black band, which is abbreviated in front and 

 mostly submarginal in the fore wings, and is marginal and com- 

 plete in the hind wings. Fore win^s sublalcate, very acute ; costa 

 black-speckled ; exterior border straight, rather oblique. Hind 

 wings with the middle of the exterior border produced into a short 

 acute tail. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



Most allied to T. dissimulata, but the hind wings are more 

 caudate and there is a black band on the under side. 



a. Silhet. From the Rev. Mr. Stainforth's collection. 



Genus DYFSTERIS, C. L. H. xxii. 558. 



DYPSTEEIS TR1FILARIA. 



Mas. Glauco-viridis ; oculi albo cincti ; palpi porrecti, graciles r 

 linear es ; antennce fulva, crassce ; abdominis segmenta albo 

 fasciata ; aim punctis marginalibus niyris ; anticce Itneis 

 tribus albis angulosis ; posticce lineis duabus albis subrectis. 



Male. Sea-green. Head white about the eyes. Palpi smooth, 

 slender, porrect, a little longer than the breadth of the head ; third 

 joint linear, white at the base, less than half the length of the second. 

 Antennae smooth, tawny, very stout. Abdomen not extending beyond 

 the hind wings ; a white band on the hind border of each segment; 

 apical tuft very small. Legs very slender ; tarsi and fore tibiae 

 black, the latter and the joints of the former white towards the base. 



