LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 399 



Female. Body rather slender. Head with porrect hairs. Pro- 

 boscis obsolete. Palpi slender, pilose beneath, very slightly ascend- 

 ing, extending somewhat beyond the head ; third joint acute, not more 

 than oue-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae rather short 

 and slender, very slightly pectinated. Abdomen linear, thickly 

 pilose along each side beneath, not extending beyond the hind wings ; 

 apical tuft very short. Legs slender, slightly pilose ; hind tibiae 

 with four long slender spurs. Wings long, broad, thinly clothed, 

 slightly hyaline. Fore wings rounded at the tips ; exterior border 

 almost straight, rather oblique; second inferior vein almost as near 

 to the third as to the first; third nearly twice further from the fourth 

 than from the second. 



Most allied to Aroa, from which it is distinguished by the 

 structure of the veins of the fore wings. 



Bazisa detecta. 



Fcem. Ochracea ; antennae ramis fuscis ; alee pallida rufescentes ; 

 anticce apud costam ochracece. 



Female. Ochraceous. Antennas with brown branches. Wings 

 pale reddish. Fore wings ochraceous along the costa. Length of 

 the body 8 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



Hindustan.. In Mr. Atkiuson's collection. 



Genus PIDA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum. Proboscis nulla. Palpi crassi, 

 erecti, dense pilosi, verticem non superantes ; articulus 3us coniciis, 

 minimus. Antenna late pectinatae. Pedes sat graciles, femoribus 

 tibiisque anticis dense fimbriatis, femoribus tibiisque posterioribus 

 subfimbriatis, calcaribus quatuor elongatis. Alae anticae latae, apice 

 subrectangulatae, margine subconico subobliquo. 



Male. Body stout. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi thick, erect, 

 densely clothed with short hairs beneath, not rising higher than the 

 vertex ; third joint conical, not more than one-eighth of the length 

 of the second. Antennae broadly pectinated. Legs rather slender ; 

 fore femora and fore tibiae densely fringed ; posterior femora and 

 posterior tibiae slightly fringed with long hairs ; hind tibiae with four 

 long slender spurs. Wings broad. Fore wings nearly rectangular 

 at the lips ; exterior border slightly convex and oblique ; second 



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