LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 433 



ICHTHYURA FULGURITA. 



Mas et fcera. Fuscescente-cinerea ; caput et thorax atro signata ; 

 alee antica lineis duabus antemediis cinereis subundulatis, 

 plaga apicali fusca maculam albidam ferrugineo compersam 

 lineamque argenteam includente. Mas. — Palpi robusti, oblique 

 ascendentes y supra nigri ; antenna latissime pectinata ; alee 

 anticce lituris duabus posticis guttisque submarginalibus atris. 

 Foem. — Antenna pectinata ; palpi porrecti, sat graciles ; alee 

 anticce guttis submarginalibus fuscis, 



Male and female. Brownish cinereous. Disk of the vertex of 

 the head deep black. Thorax with a deep black spot in front. Ab- 

 domen extending much beyond the hind wings. Fore wings with 

 two cinereous slightly undulating lines before the middle ; a large 

 brown apical patch containing an irregular whitish ferruginous- 

 speckled spot and intersected by a slightly undulating silvery line, 

 which extends to the interior border. Hind wings cinereous. 

 Male. — Palpi stout, obliquely ascending, black above ; third joint 

 extremely short. Antennae very broadly pectinated. Abdomen with 

 a long radiating apical tuft. Fore wings with the first line irregu- 

 larly bordered with black near the interior border; second with a 

 deep black streak along the hind part of its outer side; an irregular 

 transverse line of deep black dots near the exterior border ; apical 

 patch dark brown, shaded with black on its hinder part. Female. — 

 Palpi porrect, rather slender, extending somewhat beyond the head. 

 Antennae moderately pectinated. Fore wings with the apical patch 

 ferruginous-brown ; dots near the exterior border dark brown. 

 Length of the body 6 — 8 lines; of the wings 14 — 16 lines. 



a, b. Hindostan. Presented by Sir J. Hearsey. 



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



d. Shanghai. From the Entomological Society's collection. 



ICHTHYURA RESTITUKA. 



Mas. Ferrugineo- fusca ; caput supra et thoracis discus anticus 

 fusca; antenna pectinata, apices versus subpectinatce ; abdo- 

 men alas posticas superans , fasciculo apicali longo gracili ; 

 alee anticce lineis tribus pallidis subundulatis fusco marginatis, 

 fasciis duabus interruptis fuscis, punctis submarginalibus 

 nigris; postica fuscescente-rufee. Fcem. — Pallidior ; antenna 

 subpectinata ; ala antica subpurpurascentes, fasciis subobso- 

 letis. • 



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