LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 495 



subconvexo subobliquo. Fcem. — Antennae glabrae, graciles. Alae 

 anticae apice rotundatae, margine exteriore convexo obliquo. 



Male and female. Body stout, smooth. Proboscis obsolete. 

 Palpi porrect, stout, pubescent, extending a little beyond tbe bead ; 

 third joint conical, not more than one-fourth of tbe length of the 

 second. Abdomen as long as the interior border of the hiud wings. 

 Legs stout, slightly fringed ; hind tibiae with four long spurs, 

 Wings broad, stout Male. — Second joint of the palpi slightly 

 fringed beneath. Antennae slightly pectinated. Abdomen with a 

 short subquadrate apical tuft. Fore wings hardly acute ; exterior 

 border very slightly convex and oblique. Female. — Antennae 

 smooth, slender. Fore wings rounded at the tips; exterior border 

 convex, moderately oblique. 



Nearly allied to Susica, from which it differs in the structure of 

 the antennae and of the fore wings. 



Aphendala. transversata. 



Mas et fcem. Cinereo-cervina ; ala anticce fusco consperscs, 

 lineis duabus obzcurioribus transversis rectis, la antemedia 

 obliqua extus cinereo marginata, 2a submarginali vix obliqua. 

 Fcem. — Aloe antica strigula discali obscuriore. 



Male and female. Ciuereous fawn-colour. Fore wings 

 minutely brown speckled, with a transverse darker straight oblique 

 antemedial line, which is bordered with cinereous on its outer side ; 

 a straight transverse darker hardly oblique submarginal line. 

 Female. — Fore wings with a minute transverse darker streak at the 

 end of the discal areolet. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 

 14—16 lines. 



a. North Hindostan. Presented Capt. Strachey. 



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



Genus COMANA. 



Fcem. Corpus laeve, crassum. Proboscis nulla. Palpi laeves, 

 sat robusti, oblique ascendentes; articulus 3us conicus, minimus. 

 Antennae glabrae. Pedes laeves, validi; tibiae posticae quadrical- 

 caratae. Alae elongatae ; anticae apice rotundatae, costa vix convexa, 

 margine exteriore convexo perobliquo. 



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