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CATALOGUE OF 



acute, with a fawn-coloured stripe, which is straight and concise in 

 front, and extends diffusedly to the interior border on the hind side ; 

 exterior border almost straight, very oblique. Length of the body 

 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Ceylon. From Mr. Thwaites' collection. 



b. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



RlGEMA TACTA. 



Mas. Flavescente-alba ; frons fasciculata ; palpi porrecti, sat 

 graciles, subius Jimbriati, caput paullo su per antes ; antennce 

 serratce, breviusculce ; abdomen alas posticas perpaullo superans ; 

 pedes antici dense pilosi ; alee anticce straminece, lanceolatce y 

 nigro conspersa, vitta lata purpurascente-cinerea, rnargine 

 exteriore nigricante. 



Male. Yellowish white. Frontal tuft prominent. Palpi 

 porrect, rather slender, extending a little beyond the head; second 

 joint broadly fringed beneath ; third very minute. Antennae ser- 

 rated, rather short. Abdomen extending very little beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs short ; fore legs densely pilose. Fore wings 

 lanceolate, acute, pale straw-colour, thinly and minutely black- 

 speckled, with a broad pale purplish cinereous stripe widening from 

 the base to the exterior border, which is blackish and very oblique. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Australia. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Genus PARATHYRIS, C. L. H. v. 1087. 



Parathyrin Angelica. 

 Angelica, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. 1864, 322, pi. 1, f. 1. 

 Middle States, North America. 



Parathyris reperta. 



Mas. Ferruginea ; palpi oblique ascendentes ; antennce pectinata ; 

 abdominis latera subtus albo guttata ; alee anticce latce, falcatce, 

 cinereo micantes, lineis quinque transversis obscurioribus, la 

 2a Saque subundulatis, 4a e lunulis, 5a dentata, macula vitrea 

 subapicali incisa, costa basi convexa, rnargine exteriore angu- 

 lato; posticce rufescentes, lineis duabus obscurioribus trans- 

 versis arcuatis. 



