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CATALOGUE OF 



Genus LEUCOPHLEBIA, C. L. H. ix. 136. 



Leucophlebia emittens. 



Foem. Obscure fusca ; abdomen cervinum ; alee anticce subacute?, 

 vitta lata albida strigas quatuor emittente ; posticce ochracece, 

 linea marginali fusca. 



Female. Dark brown. Palpi porrect, not extending beyond 

 the head. Antennae smooth, pale cinereous. Abdomen fawn-colour, 

 extending much beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth, slender ; 

 spurs short, slender. Fore wings slightly acute, with a broad whitish 

 middle stripe, which emits four streaks from its hind border along 

 the veins ; fringe pale cinereous. Hind wings ochraceous ; a brown 

 marginal line, which is broadest towards the interior angle; fringe 

 pale cinereous. Length of the body 10 Hues; of the wings 

 28 lines. 5 



a. Hindostan. From the Entomological Society's collection. 



Genus SMERINTHUS, C. L. H. nil 239. 

 Smerinthus Maackii. 

 Maackii, Bremer, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pet. iii. 474. 

 Ussuri. 



Smerinthus numosjk. 

 numosae, Wlgn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. 42. 

 Caffraria. 



Smerinthus basalis. 

 Mas et fcem. Albido-cinerea ; antenna subtus fulw ; alee postictr 

 plaga basali rosea. Foem .— A he fuscescente conspersa ; anticce ' 

 lineis quinque fuscis, puncto discali nigro. 



Male and female. Whitish cinereous. Antennae tawny beneath. 

 Hind wings with a large deep rose-coloured patch at* the base. 

 Female.— -Fore wings transversely speckled with pale brown ; a black 

 point at the end of the discal areolet ; a transverse brown line near 

 the base; a brown line which traverses the base of the areolet and 

 is continued along the fourth inferior vein; a brown line along the 

 second inferior vein ; two oblique exterior brown lines, which extend 

 from the costa to the interior border, towards which they are zigzag 



