904 CATALOG 0E OF 



which it forms a distinct angle. Thorax with a blackish stripe ; 

 fore tegulae with a blackish oblique streak on each side. Fore wings 

 with some indistinct brown zigzag lines ; two blackish denticulated 

 lines on the inner side of the orbicular mark ; a blackish much out- 

 ward curved line at half the distance between the reniform and the 

 exterior border ; submarginal line pale cinereous, zigzag, incom- 

 pletely bordered with ferruginous; marginal lunules blackish; a 

 brown spot on the end of the interior border; orbicular and reni- 

 form distinguished by two black dots of obliquely elevated scales, 

 the latter enclosed in a large irregular blackish ringlet; exterior 

 border almost straight, hardly oblique. Hind wings with a brownish 

 marginal band. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Ceylon. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Othora canescens. 



Mas. Carta, subglaucescens ; palporum articulus 2us nigra 

 vittatus ; thorax gutta strigisque duabus nigris ; abdomen 

 cervinum, fasciis interrupts fuseis, maculis trigonis fas- 

 ciculoque apieali canis ; alee antica? latiusculce, plaga basali 

 plagisque duabus costalibvs fuseis tineas nigras denticulatas 

 includentibus, linea exterior e nigricante interrupta arcuata 

 subduplicata, linea submarginali fuscescente angulosa inde- 

 terminata, strigis cosialibus nigricantibus, orbiculari et reni- 

 formi e guttis duabus nigris; poslicce cinerece, fuscescente 

 marginatm. 



Male. Hoary, with a slight glaucous tinge. Body white 

 beneath. Palpi longer than the breadth of the head ; second joint 

 obliquely ascending, with a black stripe extending along half the 

 length from the base, and with a long apical tuft; third joint linear, 

 porrect, a little shorter than the second. Antennae very minutely 

 setulose and pubescent. Thorax with a black dot in the middle 

 and with a black streak on each of the fore tegulae. Abdomen 

 fawn-colour, with interrupted brown bands, and with a triangular 

 hoary spot on the fore border of each segment ; apical tuft hoary. 

 Legs mostly white; fore femora and fore tibiae pilose. Fore wings 

 rather broad; a brown basal patch and two brown costal patches 

 in which black denticulated lines are apparent, and which contain 

 two black dots representing the orbicular and reniform marks ; a 

 blackish interrupted much outward-curved partly double line near 

 the inner side of the submarginal line, which is brownish, zigzag 

 and incomplete ; some short blackish streaks along the exterior part 



