LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 907 



lunules blackish, cinereous-bordered ; orbicular and reniforra marks 

 consisting of two black obliquely-elevated dots, the latter forming 

 part of a round black spot which interrupts a brown ringlet ; exterior 

 border slightly convex and oblique. Hind wings cinereous, 

 brownish towards the exterior border. Length of the body 8 lines ; 

 of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Ceylon. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



OTHORA SUBFASC1ATA. 



Mas. Obscure schistacea ; thorax atro fascialus ; alee anticce sat 

 angustce, ferrugineo suffuses, fascia media pallide cinerea, 

 lineis transversis nigris plus minusve angulosis, linea submar- 

 ginali cinerea angulosa, orbiculari et reniformi indeter- 

 minatis ; posticce cinerece. Var. /3. — Aloe anticce dimidio 

 basali pallide cinerece, Var. y. — Alee anticce ferruginece. 



Male. Dark slaty cinereous. Body white beneath. Frontal 

 tuft prominent. Palpi white beneath, a little longer than the 

 breadth of the head ; second joint obliquely ascending, hardly 

 tufted ; third lanceolate, hardly half the length of the second. 

 Antennae minutely setulose and pubescent, with a few longer setae 

 near the base. Thorax with a deep black band on the fore tegulae. 

 Legs slender, white beneath. Fore wings rather narrow, mostly 

 overspread with ferruginous, excepting a pale cinereous middle 

 band, which is broadest on the interior border; transverse lines 

 black, more or less zigzag; submarginal line cinereous, zigzag; 

 marginal lunules black; some cinereous points along the exterior 

 part of the costa ; orbicular and reniform marks indeterminate ; 

 exterior border hardly oblique. Hind wings cinereous. Var. <3. — 

 Fore wings pale cinereous from the base to the middle. Var. y. — 

 Fore wings almost wholly ferruginous. 

 a — c. — Ceylon. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Othora plagiata. 



Mas. Nigricans, subtus alba ; palporum articulus 2us nigro 

 vittatus ; alee anticce lineis nigris angulosis, plagis tribus 

 albidis, macula apicali nigricante-cinerea strigulas albas 

 includente, punctis submar ginalibus et marginalibus albis, 

 reniformi nigricante parva annulo nigricante inclusa ; posticce 

 obscure cinerece. 



