LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 737 



Male. Cinereous-brown, reddish cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 moderately stoat, nearly erect, not rising higher than the vertex ; 

 second joint lanceolate, with a blackish band on the outer side ; third 

 less than half the length of the second. Antennae smooth. Abdo- 

 men cinereous, extending much beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft 

 elongate. Fore wings with an eeneous tinge ; some indistinct undu- 

 lating blackish lines ; a pale yellowish cinereous spot adjoining the 

 iuner side of the reniform mark, which is mostly blackish ; subrnar- 

 ginal line cinereous, zigzag ; marginal points black ; three whitish 

 costal points near the tip. Hind wings white, iridescent, slightly 

 hyaline, with an aeneous tinge along the exterior border. Length 

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



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



Hadena semifascia. 

 Mas. Cervina ; palpi oblique ascendentes, verticem non superantes, 

 articulo 3o longi-conico ; thoracis tegulce apices versus nigri- 

 cante conspersce ; abdomen cristis duabus basalibus magnis ; 

 alee anticce lineis duabus nigricantibus basalibus indetermin- 

 atis, lineis sex fuscis dentatis indistinctis, fascia media obscure 

 fusca antice dilatata, orbicularem el reniformem magnas 

 cinereas includente, annulo posterior e nigro interrupto ; 

 posticce cinerece. 



Male. Fawn-colour, dingy cinereous beneath. Palpi stout, 

 pilose, obliquely ascending, not rising higher than the vertex, mostly 

 brown on the outer side; third joint elongate-conical, about one- 

 third of the length of the second. Antenna? stout, setulose. Tegulae 

 of the thorax blackish-speckled towards their tips. Abdomen ex- 

 tending somewhat beyond the hind wings ; first and second seg- 

 segments with large crests ; apical tuft large, quadrate. Femora 

 fringed. Fore wings with two very incomplete blackish lines near 

 the base, and with six indistinct dentate browu lines, of which two 

 are on the inner side and four on the outer side of the middle band; 

 the latter is dark brown, cinereous-bordered, dilated in front and 

 contains the orbicular and reniform marks, which are large, cinereous, 

 and converge towards each other ; an incomplete black ringlet 

 behind the orbicular; reniform hardly excavated; four blackish 

 costal dots and three exterior pale cinereous costal points ; marginal 

 lunules blackish. Hind wings cinereous. Length of the body 

 7-J- lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



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



