416 CATALOGUE OF 



cinereus ; abdomen basi cristatum ; alee antic ce vittis duabus 

 pallide cervinis, la brevi, villa costali ferruginea cinereo et 

 purpurascente suffusa, orbiculari et reniformi maximis, 

 margine exteriore dentato ; posticce fuscce, rufescente mar- 

 ginatce. 



Male. Fawn-colour. Palpi obliquely ascending^ stout, pilose, 

 not ascending so high as the vertex; third joint conical, less than 

 one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae thickly serrated. 

 Thorax with a reddish tinge, cinereous in front. Abdomen crested 

 towards the base, extending a little beyond the hind wings. Fore 

 wings with two pale fawn-coloured stripes, one extending along the 

 interior border, which is reddish, the other proceeding from the 

 reniform mark to the exterior border; an irregular ferruginous costal 

 stripe, tinged with dark cinereous in front and with purplish hind- 

 ward ; orbicular and reniform marks very large ; the first forming a 

 longitudinal elliptical ringlet; the second broad and purplish in 

 front, whitish narrow and rounded hindward; exterior border 

 strongly dentate. Hind wings brown, with a reddish border. 

 Length of the body 8 — 9 lines; of the wings 18—20 lines. 



a — d. North Hindostan. From Capt. Boys' collection. 



Genus STAUROPUS, C. L. H.v. 1019. 

 Stauropus interpellated. 

 interpellatrix, Wlngr. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. 164. 

 Caffraria. 



Stauropus melostomatis. 

 melostomatis, Feld. Sitz. Akad. Wiss. xliii. 39. 

 Amboina. 



Stauropus viridescens. 



Mas. Pallide viridescens; palpi graciles, oblique ascendentes, 

 articulo 2o supra nigro ; abdomen nigro tricristatum ; alee 

 anticcB lineis tribus e lunulis ochraceis nigricante marginatis, 

 gutlis submarginalibus nigricantibus ochraceo marginatis, 

 striga discali ochracea, play a postica fusca ; posticce fusees- 

 centes, dimidio basali pallide cinereo, 



Male. Dull pale green, pale cinereous beneath. Palpi slender, 

 obliquely ascending, not rising so high as the vertex ; second joint 

 black above, fringed beneath ; third acute, minute. Abdomen 

 greenish cinereous, extending much beyond the hind wings, with a 



