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2. BaSIANA CERVINA. 



Mas. Pallide cervina ; caput fascia antica cinereo-fusca ; aim 

 anticce fasciis paucis unclulatis, disco ex parte plagaque apicali 

 obscurioribus ; postica rufescentes, antice et apud angulum 

 interiorem testacece. 



Male and female. Pale fawn-colour. Head with a cinereous- 

 brown band in front of the antennae, which are white. Fore wings 

 with a few darker undulating bands, and wtth part of the disk and 

 a patch at the tip of the costa of the same hue. Hind wings red- 

 dish, testaceous in front and along the interior border, and with tes- 

 taceous cilise. Length of the body 16 — 20 lines; of the wings 

 40—56 lines. 



a—c. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



3. Basiana postica. 



Testacea ; antenna fulvce ; caput et thorax linea nigricante ; ab- 

 domen macula basali nigricante, disco cer vino ; pedes ferri*- 

 ginei ; alee anticce macula basali nigra ; postica lulece, plaga 

 basali vittaque externa angusta subundulata nigris. 



Testaceous. Antennas tawny. Head and thorax with a 

 blackish line. Abdomen mostly fawn-colour on the disk, and with 

 a blackish spot at the base. Hind wings luteous, with a black 

 patch at the base, and with a slender undulating black stripe near 

 the exterior border. Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 32 

 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



" Gives out sounds, resembling those of a Lamia, for minutes 

 together."— MSS. 



Cenus36. DAPHNUSA. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis obsoleta. Palpi breves, validi, 

 recurvi. Abdomen oblanceolatum, thorace plus duplo longius. 

 Pedes validi, pilosi, breviusculi ; tibiae posticae non calcaratae. Alas 

 mediocriter latae, non longae ; anticag apud costam subrectae, vix 

 acuminata?, apud marginem exteriorem subrectae, mediocriter ob- 

 liquas ; postico apice rotundatae, margine exteriore integro. 



