424 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Cinereous fawn-colour, cinereous beneath. Head 

 above and thorax brown. Head with a porrect tuft on the vertex. 

 Palpi porrect, not extending beyond the head. An'ennae smooth. 

 Abdomen cinereous, extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs short. Fore wings with some longitudinal whitish streaks, of 

 which the broadest is on the discal areolet and is bounded at the 

 end by a short transverse dark brown streak ; exterior border very 

 oblique. Length of the body 10 lines; of the wings 24 lines. 



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



Excreta smaragdiplena. 



smaragdiplena, Wile. Journ. Lin. Soc. vi. 134. 



Borneo. 



Genus EDEMA, C. L. H. v. 1028. 



Edema semjrufescens. 



Mas. Cinereo-cervina ; palpi subascendentes ; abdomen alas pos- 

 iicas sat superans, fasciculo apicali rufeseente ; ala anticce 

 fasciis dua latis rufescentibus, lineis quinque transversis angu- 

 losis strigaque discali nigris, strigis submarginalibus nigris 

 albido maryinatis ; posticce cinerea, nonnunquam subfusces- 

 centes, lineis duabus obliquis pallidis. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour. Palpi slightly ascending, not 

 extending beyond the head ; third joint conical, not more than one- 

 fourth of the length of the second. Antennae moderately pectinated. 

 Abdomen tapering from the base to the lip, extending rather beyond 

 the hind wings ; apical tuft small, reddish. Fore wings with two 

 broad reddish bands, one near the base, the other extending to the 

 exterior border ; five black transverse zigzag lines ; first, second and 

 third between the base and the first band; fourth near the outer 

 side of the first band ; fifth near the inner side of the second band ; 

 an intermediate black transverse discal streak; a few short black 

 whitish-bordered streaks in the second band. Hind wings cine- 

 reous, occasionally tinged with brown, with two pale cinereous 

 oblique lines. Length of the body 6^ — 7 lines ; of the wings 

 14— 16 lines. 



The transverse denticulated lines on the fore wings of this spe* 

 cies distinguish it from E. concinna. 



a — c. New York. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 d. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



