1688 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Fawn-colour, black-speckled, ochraceous-cinereous 

 beneath. Palpi porrect, pilose, extending a little beyond the head ; 

 third joint elongate-conical, very minute. Antennae slender. Ab- 

 domen ochraceous-cinereous, brown-speckled, shorter than the inte- 

 rior border of the hind wings. Fore wings slightly acute, with three 

 black lines; first line basal; second anteraedial, slightly curved 

 outward; third much bent outward in front; a transverse fusiform 

 black spot and an exterior short deeply zigzag blackish line between 

 the secondhand third lines; a zigzag cinereous black-bordered sub- 

 marginal line; marginal lunules. black ; a large dull ochraceous 

 oblong-quadrate spot between the submarginal line and the exterior 

 border, which is slightly convex and rather oblique. Hind wings 

 ochraceous-cinereous, brown-speckled ; a brown dot in the disk and 

 an incomplete exterior line of brown dots. Length of the body 



5 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



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



SCOTOSIA RAMOSA. 



Mas. Obscure fusca ; caput et thorax cervina ; palpi lati, por- 

 recti, caput paullo superantes ; antennce subfasciculatce ; thorax 

 fusco fascialus ; abdomen cinereum ; alee anticce fasciis tribus 

 obliquis albis, vitta abbreviata flavescente-cinerea fusco con- 

 spersa, fascia Sa f ureal a ; posticce albce, lineis duabus fuscis 

 macularibus indeterminatis, lunulis marginalibus obscure 

 fuscis. 



Male. Dark brown. Body whitish beneath. Head and thorax 

 fawn-colour. Palpi broad, porrect, extending a little beyond the 

 head ; third joint extremely short. Antennae rather stout; the joints 

 with tufts of hair on both sides. Thorax with a brown band, which 

 forms two curves. Abdomen cinereous, much shorter than the inte- 

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

 Wings broad. Fore wings hardly acute, with three oblique while 

 bands, which are interrupted by a white brown-speckled stripe, which 

 is abbreviated near the base; this stripe is mostly tinged with yel- 

 lowish cinereous ; first and second bands approximate in the middle ; 

 third more slender than the others, forked near the cosla ; exterior 

 border very slightly convex, moderately oblique. Hind wings 

 white, with two very incomplete lines of brown spots; marginal 

 lunules dark brown ; fringe cinereous-brown. Length of the body 



6 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



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



