646 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Pale cinereous-red. Head and fore wings ferruginous- 

 red. Fore wings with two white transverse lines; first line ante- 

 medial, hardly curved, not oblique, abbreviated near the costa, 

 brown-bordered on the inner side; second postmedial, oblique, 

 almost straight, very diffuse on the inner side, brown-bordered on 

 the outer side ; an intermediate transverse silvery white streak, which 

 is broadest at its hind end. Hind wings with a ferruginous oblique 

 line, which is most distinct on the under side. Length of the body 

 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. ? From Mr. Vigors' collection. 



Fam. XYLOPHASlD^l, C. L. H. ix. 164. 



Genus XYLOPHASIA, C. L. H. ix. 169. 



Xylophasia selecta. 



Mas. Fuscescente-cinerea ; antenna subserrata ; thorax fusco 

 quinque fasciatus ; abdomen vitta interrupta fusca; alee 

 antica plaga postica fusca cinereo conspersa, vitta costali fusca, 

 fascia submarginali fusca devia strigas nigras includente ; 

 postica fuscescentes, basi fimbriaque albidis. 



Male. Brownish cinereous. Palpi obliquely ascending, not 

 rising higher than the vertex ; third joint elongate-conical, less than 

 half the length of the second. Antenna? very minutely serrated. 

 Thorax with five brown bands. Abdomen with an interrupted 

 brown stripe, tapering from near the base to the tip, extending a 

 little beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft very small. Tarsi dark 

 brown ; their joints with whitish tips. Fore wings with a brown 

 costal stripe, and with an oblique very irregular brown submarginal 

 baud, which contains some black longitudinal streaks and is partly 

 bordered on the inner side by an oblique dentate undulating black 

 line ; this line joins the outer side of a brown cinereous-speckled 

 patch, which rests on the interior border and is partly bordered in 

 front by a bent black line ; this is continued interruptedly to the 

 costa, near which it forms an angle ; three whitish points on the 

 costa near the tip. Hind wings brownish, whitish towards the 

 base; fringe whitish. Length of the body 7% lines; of the wings 

 18 lines. 



Hindostan. In Mr. Norris's collection. 



