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antenna validce ; femora pilosa ; alee elongate, nitentes, nigra 

 subconspersce, lineis tribus parallelis reclis obliquis, la 2aque 

 rufis, 2ci testaceo marginata, So fusco fiavo marginata, linea 

 submarginali testacea informi incompleta nigro notata. 



Female. White, stout, minutely brown-speckled. Body pur- 

 plish beneath. Head and fore part of the thorax reddish cinereous. 

 Frontal tuft prominent. Palpi obliquely ascending, not rising 

 higher than the vertex ; third joint porrect, elongate-conical, about 

 one-fourth the length of the second, with which it forms an obtuse 

 angle. Antennae stout. Femora pilose ; hind tibiae not thickened ; 

 spurs short. Wings elongate, shining, slightly and minutely black- 

 speckled, with three parallel straight oblique lines ; first and second 

 lines red ; first line not extending to the hind wings ; second tes- 

 taceous-bordered exteriorly; third brown, yellow -bordered inte- 

 riorly; submarginal line testaceous, irregular, incomplete, black-. 

 marked on the veins ; costa ferruginous ; under side purplish, with 

 very numerous little transverse blackish streaks, and with a red line 

 which corresponds to the second line above; an exterior diffuse yel- 

 low band, marked with black points on the veins ; space beyond 

 mostly ochraceous. Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 

 26 lines. 



a, b. Silhet. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Genus 15. NISISTA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Fasciculus frontalis subascendens, 

 non productus. Proboscis brevis. Palpi porrecti, caput non super- 

 antes ; articulus 3us minimus. Antennae late pectinatae. Thorax 

 dense vestitus, Abdomen apicem versus attenuatum, alas posticas 

 vix superans. Pedes breviusculi, sat graciles ; femora late fim- 

 briata ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae latae, non 

 longse, margine exteriore subdentata ; auticae acutae, costa recta, 

 margine exteriore vix convexo ; posticae angulo exteriore non pro- 

 ducto. 



Male. Body robust. Frontal tuft slightly ascending, not pro- 

 minent. Proboscis short. Palpi porrect, very short, not extending 

 beyond the head ; third joint very minute. Antennae broadly pec- 

 tinated to the tips. Thorax densely clothed. Abdomen hardly ex- 

 tending beyond the hind wings, somewhat attenuated towards the 

 tip ; apical tuft radiating. Legs rather short and slender ; femora 

 broadly fringed ; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings broad, 

 not long; exterior border slightly scolloped. Fore wings acute; 



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