LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1711 



ACROBASIS UNDULATELLA. 



Mas. Nigricante-cinere.a ; palpi robusti, oblique ascendentes, 

 verticem superantes, articulo 3o lanceolato ; antennce glabrae ; 

 alee anticce angustce, vix acuta, apud costam cance, fasciis 

 duabus ferrugineis undulatis nigro marginatum macula ante- 

 media, striga media obliqua lineaque marginali subinterrupta 

 nigris ; poslicce ceneo-cinerece, fimbria albida. 



Male. Blackish cinereous, paler cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 stout, squamous, obliquely ascending, rising somewhat higher than 

 the head ; third joint lanceolate, about half the length of the second. 

 Antennae smooth. Abdomeu brownish cinereous, extending rather 

 beyond the hind wings; apical tuft elongate. Legs slender. Fore 

 wings narrow, hardly acute, mostly hoary along the costa; two 

 ferruginous undulating bands; first band antemedial, slightly black- 

 bordered on both sides, connected on the inner side with a black 

 spot; second near the exterior border, black-bordered on the inner 

 side; an oblique black streak in the disk between the lines; mar- 

 ginal line black, slightly interrupted ; exterior border slightly 

 rounded and oblique. Hind wings aeneous-cinereous ; fringe 

 whitish. Length of the body 4 J lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Templeton. 



ACROBASIS QUADRIGUTTELLA. 



Foera. JEnea ; palpi graciles, erecti, verticem paullo super antes, 

 articulo 3o lanceolato ; abdomen alas posticas longe superans ; 

 pedes sat robusti, femoribus tibiisque albis ceneo fasciatis ; alee 

 antica latiusculce, acuta, vitta costali alba lata abbreviata 

 guttas quatuor nigras includente, linea submarginali nigri- 

 cante obliqua ; posticce cinerea, subhyalina. 



Female. iEneous, cinereous beneath. Palpi slender, erect, 

 whitish on the inner side, rising a little higher than the vertex ; 

 third joint lanceolate, nearly as loug as the second. Antenna rather 

 slender. Abdomen extending much beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 rather stout; femora and tibiae white, with an aeneous band on each ; 

 joints of the tarsi with white tips. Fore wings acute, rather broad, 

 with a broad white costal stripe, which is abbreviated at each end 

 and contains four black dots; two dots antemedial, the other two 

 postmedial; an irregular oblique blackish line beyond the stripe; 

 exterior border slightly convex, moderately oblique. Hind wings 



