LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 377 



Male. Bright pale luteous. Head, a band on the thorax, fore 

 legs partly and posterior tarsi dull purplish red. Fore wings with 

 numerous denticulated dull reddish lines ; the most exterior line 

 almost straight, having some white spots along its exterior side ; 

 marginal space dull purplish red ; an oblique cinereous apical streak. 

 Hind wings like the fore wings, but paler and without the white 

 spots, and with a broad exterior pale luteous band. Length of the 

 body 11 lines; of the wings 30 lines. 



Ceylon. In Mr. Layard's collection. 



Genus TANA DA, C. L. H. vii. 1745. 



Tanada CO NSC it a. 



Mas. Alba; caput luteum ; palpi oblique ascendentes, verticem 

 non superantes, articulo 3o longi-conico ; antennae nigra, 

 setosce ; thorax antice luteus ; abdomen flavum ; pedes flavi y 

 fusco varii ; alee anticce costa lutea ; postica flavor. Var. (3. 

 — Abdomen flavo-album ; ala postica flavo-albce, anticce costa 

 flavo-alba. Foem. — Antennce subsetulosce ; abdomen album ; 

 alee albce ; antica? costa lutea. 



Male. White. Head and fore part of the thorax luteous, 

 Proboscis tawny. Palpi luteous, pubescent, obliquely ascending, 

 not rising so high as the vertex ; third joint elongate-conical, not 

 more than half the length of the second. Antennae black, setose. 

 Abdomen yellow, not extending beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft 

 very small. Legs yellow, smooth ; spurs moderately long ; anterior 

 tibiae and tarsi brown above. Wings elongate. Fore wings slightly 

 rounded at the tips ; costa luteous. Hind wings yellow. Var. /3. — 

 Abdomen, except the apical tuft, yellowish white. Hind wings yel- 

 lowish white. Fore wings with a yellowish white costa. Female. — - 

 Antennae very minutely setulose. Abdomen and wjngs white, except 

 the costa of the fore wings. Length of the body 7 — 8 lines; of the 

 wings 20 lines. 



a — c. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Tanada ? amplificata. 



Mas. Flavo-alba ; caput et thorax antice flavescentia ; palpi 



fuscescenteS) porrecti, caput super antes ; antennce subpectinatce ; 



abdomen album, segmentis cervino pallidissimo marginatis ; 



pedes cervino-varii ; alee anticce elongatce^ vix acuta; posticce 



alba. 



