LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 759 



anticce acutce, plaga basali elongata pallide cervina plagaque 

 ramosa fusca connexis, tinea exterior e fusca, liaea cervina 

 interrupta maculisque duabus nigris submarginalibus, venis 

 nigro punctatis. 



Female. Cinereous. Head with two long ascending tufts, 

 which are slightly curved backward and are striped with fawn-colour 

 on the inner side. Palpi slender, obliquely ascending, brown above, 

 not rising higher than the vertex ; third joint lanceolate, less than 

 half the length of the second. Antennae hardly setulose. Thorax 

 fawn-colour; tegulae whitish-bordered. Abdomen extending some- 

 what beyond the hind wings. Fore wings acute, with an elongated 

 pale fawn-coloured patch, which extends from the base and is con- 

 nected with an exterior ramose brown patch ; the latter extends 

 nearly to a transverse brown line; an irregular interrupted fawn- 

 coloured submarginal line, which is accompanied hindward by two 

 black spots on its outer side ; marginal points black, arranged in 

 pairs, each pair opposite a blackish dot on the fringe ; veins with 

 black points, except towards the base. Hind wings with a whitish 

 fringe. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



In Mr. Norris's collection. 



Genus NYSTALEA, C. L. H. xi. 663. 



NYSTALEA XY LIN ATA. 



Mas. Pallide subcervino-cinerea ; palpi porrecti, articulo 2o fim- 

 briate, 3o lineari ; antenna subpectinatce, dimidio apicali 

 setulosce ; alee anticce fasciis duabus cervinis /lexis dentatis, 

 vitta apud marginem interiorem strigaque costali lata rufes- 

 cente-cinereis fusco conspersis, spatio marginali cervino lineam 

 submarginalem dentatam cineream includente ; posticce cinerece^ 

 cervino marginatce. 



Male, Pale wood-colour, or cinereous with a tinge of fawn- 

 colour. Palpi extending somewhat beyond the head ; second joint 

 densely fringed beneath ; third linear, less than half the length of 

 the second. Antennae slightly pectinated to nearly half the length 

 from the base, minutely setulose from thence to the tips. Abdomen 

 extending much beyond the hind wings. Fore wings with two 

 irregularly bent dentate fawn-coloured bands, the second darker 

 than the first ; a reddish cinereous brown-speckled stripe along the 



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