908 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Blackish. Body white beneaih. Palpi white beneath, 

 a little longer than the breadth of the head ; second joint obliquely 

 ascending:, with a black stripe on the outer side along half the 

 length from the base, tufted at the tip ; third linear, porrect, full 

 half the length of the second. Antennae stout, setulose, beset with 

 long setae along half the length from the base. Thorax crested on 

 the hind border. Legs white beneath. Fore wings glaucous- 

 tinged, with some transverse black zigzag lines, and with three 

 whitish patches; first patch small, elongated, very near the base; 

 secoud large, extending to the costa, including the reniform, 

 accompanied by three whitish streaks near its hind border; third 

 small, narrow, extending to the exterior border ; the line beyond 

 the second patch much curved outward ; a blackish cinereous 

 apical spot, containing some little white streaks; submarginal and 

 marginal points white ; reniform mark blackish, small, enclosed in 

 a blackish ringlet; exterior border convex, slightly oblique. Hind 

 wings dark cinereous. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 

 18 lines. 



a. Ceylon. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Othora albivitta. 



Foem. Cinereo-fusca ; palporum articnlus 2us atro vittatm ; alee 

 anticee lineis nigricantibus angulosis, villa lata alba, lima 

 exteriore nigricante fusca angulata duplicata, linea submar- 

 ginali cinerea angnlosa ferrngineo marginata, reniformi et 

 orbiculari nigricantibus, ilia annulo nigricante inclusa ; pos- 

 ticce cinerea, margine lato fuscescente. 



Female. Cinereous-brown, cinereous beneath. Palpi whitish 

 beneath, longer than the breadth of the head ; second joint obliquely 

 ascending, striped with deep black on the outer side, with a long 

 tuft above towards the tip ; third joint linear, porrect, a little 

 shorter than the second. Fore wings slightly acute, with some 

 blackish zigzag lines; most of these are interrupted by a broad 

 irregular white stripe, which extends from the base to full three- 

 fourths of the length, where it is contiguous to a double angular 

 blackish brown line ; submarginal line cinereous, zigzag, bordered 

 with ferruginous on the inner side; marginal luuules blackish; 

 orbicular and reniform black, the latter enclosed in a large irregular 

 blackish ringlet; exterior border nearly straight, hardly oblique. 



