258 CATALOGUE OF 



brown, with a brown stripe along the interior border, and with a 

 marginal double row of minute brown lunules. Length of the body 

 6 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. South Hindostan. Presented by M. J. Walhouse, Esq. 



Genus THEMISCYRA. 



Fcem. Corpus gracile. Proboscis longiuscula. Palpi laeves, 

 graeiles, porrecti, caput superantes; articuli lus et 2us subarcuati ; 

 3us linearis, 2o longior. Antennas glabra?, robustae. Abdomen alas 

 posticas superans. Pedes laeves, validi ; tibiae posticae quadrical- 

 caratae. Alae anticae longae, sat angustae, apice rotundatae, margiue 

 exteriore convexo perobliquo. 



Female. Body slender. Proboscis rather long. Palpi smooth, 

 slender, porrect, extending somewhat beyond the head and nearly as 

 long as the breadih of the latter; first and second joints slightly 

 curved ; third linear, longer than the second. Antennae smooth, 

 stout. Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 smooth, stout; hind tibiae with four spurs of moderate length. 

 Wings long, rather narrow. Fore wings rounded at the tips ; costa 

 slightly convex; exterior border convex, very oblique. 



Themiscyea l^tifera. 



Fcem. Albida ; caput fusco vittatum; palpi supra rufescentes, 

 articulo 2o apice fuscescente ; antenna rufce ; thorax mar gine 

 antico liturisque qualuor rufis, fascia vittaque fuscis latis ; 

 abdomen ochraceum ; alee anticce lineis rujis, fasciis duabus 

 connexis e strigis fuscis ; posticce ochraceae. 



Female. Whitish. Head with a brown stripe on the vertex. 

 Palpi reddish above ; second joint brownish at the tip. Antennae 

 red. Thorax red along the fore border, with a red mark on each of 

 the tegula?, and with a brown band, of which the hind border is con- 

 nected with a broad brown stripe. Abdomen above and hind wings 

 ochraceous. Legs partly ochraceous above ; fore tibiae brown above. 

 Fore wings with some red lines and with some broad irregular con- 

 tiguous brown streaks ; these form two incomplete bands, which are 

 connected on the costa and on the interior border. Length of the 

 body 7 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



