768 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Rose-colour, silvery whitish beneath. Palpi hardly 

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

 Abdomen silvery whitish, with a slight fawn-coloured tinge, ex- 

 tending much beyond the hind wings. Fore wings with a broad 

 silvery stripe which is gilded towards the base and widens from the 

 base to the exterior border ; fringe rosy. Hind wings silvery white. 

 Length of the body 6£ lines; of the wings 14 lines. 



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



Genus LEPI POLYS, C. L. H. xi. 677. 



Lepipolys tetra. 



Foem. Pallide viridescente-cinerea ; palpi vix ascendentes, caput 

 superantes, nigro fasciati, articulo So conico ; alee lunulis 

 marginalibus nigris ; anticce nigro subconspersa, Uriels fuscis 

 undulatis indistinctis, orbiculari et reniformi albidis nigro 

 submarginatis, macula intermedia subquadrata nigro -fusca ; 

 posticcefuscescentes, fimbria cinerea. 



Female. Pale greenish cinereous. Palpi pilose, hardly as- 

 cending, extending somewhat beyond the head ; second joint with 

 a blackish band ; third conical, not more than one-fourth of the 

 length of the second. Antennae black. Abdomen extending very 

 little beyond the hind wings. Tarsi with black bands. Wings 

 with black marginal lunules. Fore wings with several indistinct 

 brown undulating transverse lines, and with some black speckles ; 

 a blackish brown subquadrate space between the orbicular and 

 reniform marks, which are large, whitish and incompletely black- 

 bordered ; disk beneath brown. Hind wings brownish; fringe 

 cinereous; under side with a black lunule in the disk. Length of 

 the body 8 lines; of the wings 18 lines, 

 a, b. Vancouver's Isle. Presented by Lieut.-Col. Hawkins. 



Genus HELIOTHIS, C. L. H. xi. 680. 



Heliothis maeitima. 



maritima, Graslin, A. S. E. F. 1855, 68, pi. 7—R.Sch. N. Schm. 

 f.^9— spergulariae, Ld. Noct. 230— dipsacea, var. ? 



