LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1639 



Phalacra METAGONARIA. 



Mas. Pallide cervina ; alee jpuncto medio lineisque duabus exte- 

 rioribus punctularibus nigris ; poslicce lineis tribus pallide 

 cervinis, linea an te media fusca duplicata. 



Male. Pale fawn-colour, pale cinereous beneath. Wings 

 with a black point in the disk, and with two lines of black points; 

 first line postmedial ; second submarginal. Hind wings with a 

 double anternedial brown line; three exterior lines, which are 

 slightly paler than the ground hue, the second and third accom- 

 panying the black points. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 

 14 lines. 



o. Hindostan. Presented by Sir J. Hearsey. 



Genus CERONABA. 



Bias. Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi breves, 

 laeves, graciles, lanceolati, oblique ascendentes; articulus 3us 2i 

 dimidio brevior. Antennae peclinata), apices versus glabra?. Pedes 

 laeves, breviusculi, sat graciles; calcaria gracilia, longissima. Alae 

 latae, breviusculae, postice dilatatas ; anticae subacutae, venis sub- 

 mediana et subanali undulatis. 



Male. Body rather stout. Proboscis short. Palpi smooth, 

 slender, lanceolate, obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the 

 vertex; third joint less than half the length of the second. An- 

 tennae moderately pectinated to a little beyond two-thirds of the 

 length. Legs smooth, rather short and slender; spurs slender, very 

 long. Wings broad, rather short. Fore winus slightly acute; ex- 

 terior border convex and oblique; third superior vein commencing 

 before the middle of the length of the wing ; hind part dilated ; two 

 inferior veins; submedian vein undulating; subanal vein slightly 

 undulating. Hind wings with the space along the interior border 

 dilated ; interior border rather broadly fringed. 



The peculiar structure of the veins of the fore wings is the most 

 distinguishing character of this genus. 



Ceronaba cinctarta. 



Mas. Ochraceo-cervina ; caput ferrugineum ; aloe fusco conspersce, 

 lineis duabus arcuatis argenteis, la submarginali, 2a marginalia 



