480 CATALOGUE OF 



Male, Ferruginous-red, stout, mostly cinereous beneath. 

 Palpi porrect, stout, not extending to the front of the head ; third 

 joint extremely short. Antennae stout, smooth. Abdomen thickly 

 pilose above, extending much beyond the hind wings, with a furcate 

 apical tuft. Legs stout, very pilose. Fore winjrs elongate, slightly 

 acute ; exterior border convex, very oblique. Hind wings whitish ; 

 exterior border and space along the interior border reddish. Length 

 of the body 8 lines; of the wings 17 lines. 



a. ? 



NVSSIA ? SUBRUFESCENS. 



Mas. Ferrugineo-rufa ; palpi hirsuti, oblique ascendentes ; an- 

 tenna pectinatce ; abdomen alas poslicas lorige superans, fasci- 

 culo apicali elongato ; pedes breves, jimbriali ; alee anticce 

 elongate, subacute. 



Male, Ferruginous-red. Palpi stout, hirsute, obliquely ascend- 

 ing ; third joint very short. Anteunae moderately pectinated along 

 the whole length. Abdomen tapering from the base to the tip, ex- 

 tending much beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft elongate. Legs 

 short; femora and tibia? fringed with long squamous hairs. Wings 

 elongate. Fore wines slightly acute; exterior border convex, very 

 oblique. Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Nyssia? sobria. 



Mas. Rufescente-cervina, crassa, pilosissima ; palpi porrecti, 

 pilosissimi, caput non super antes ; antenna: late pectinate; 

 pedes pilosissimi ; ala? antica? elongato?, a pice rotundala?, linea 

 exteriore recta obliqua e guttis nigricantilus, mar gine exterior e 

 subrecto sat obliquo. 



Male. Reddish fawn-colour, very stout and pilose. Palpi 

 porrect, very pilose, not extending beyond the head. Antennae 

 broadly pectinated. Abdomen cinereous fawn-colour, not extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs very pilose. Fore wings elongate, 

 rounded at the tips, with a straight oblique line of blackish dots 

 beyond the middle ; exterior border almost straight, rather oblique; 

 second inferior vein rather further from the third than from the 

 first ; fourth very remote from the third ; first superior vein united 

 with the second at the base, forked near the base ; third forked at 

 half its length ; fourth remote from the third. Hind wings rather 



