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Female. White. Head cinereous. Palpi smooth, slender, 

 porrect, extending a little beyond the head; third joint very minute. 

 Abdomen cinereous, extending rather beyond the hind wings. Fore 

 wings with silvery speckles; four broad zigzag cinereous lines near 

 the base ; two exterior costal quadrangular cinereous spots, behind 

 which there is a reversed U-shaped black mark ; space beyond the 

 latter blackish-cinereous tinged with cbalybeous, including a zigzag 

 white submarginal line; marginal points black, elongated; hind 

 part of the fringe white. Hind wings aeneous-brown ; fringe white. 

 Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 16 Hues. 



a. Deccau. Presented by the Secretary of the India Board. 



Calophasia postica. 



Mas et foem. Alba ; alee anticce lineis nonnullis cinereis 

 undulatis indeterminatis, plagis duabus fuscis nigro chalybcen- 

 gue conspersis albo inter lineatis, \a apicali, 2a postica, reni- 

 formi e lineolis duabus nigris punctularibus, punctis mar- 

 ginalibus nigris ; posticce ceneo marginatce. 



Male and female. White. Palpi like those of C. catenula. 

 Antennae fawn-colour. Abdomen with a slight fawn-coloured 

 tinge. Fore wings with transverse undulating cinereous lines of 

 which most are incomplete ; two brown black-speckled patches , 

 which are interlined with white, and contain some chalybeous scales; 

 first patch apical, smaller and less regular than the second, which 

 is on the outer part of the interior border ; reniform mark indicated 

 by two little transverse lines of black points ; marginal points black, 

 irregular. Hind wings with an aeneous border, which is much 

 broader in the female than in the male. Length of the body 6 — 6j 

 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



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



Genus BATRACHARTA. 

 Batracharta, Wlk.Journ. Lin. Soc. vi. 196. 



Batkacharta obliqua. 

 obliqua, Wlk. Journ. Lin. Soc. vi. 196. 

 Borneo. 



