LEPIDOPTERA HETEROGEEA. 911 



Othora BASIFASCIA. 



Fceui. Subferrugineo-cinerea ; palporum articulus 2us dimidia 

 basali nigricante; thoracis tegulce anticce fusco strigatce ; 

 pectus alburn ; pedes antici subpilosi ; alee antica nigro sub- 

 conspersce, fascia basali lata fusca lineas quatuor nigricantes 

 dentatas includente lineis, duabus post mediis nigricantibus 

 arcuatis, linea submarginali fusca angulosa, plagis duabus 

 fuscescentibus, reniformi et orbiculari e guttis duabus asperis 

 nigricantibus, ilia annulo nigricante inclusa. 



Female. Cinereous, slightly varied with ferruginous. Palpi 

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

 blackish on the outer side for half the length from the base, tufted 

 above at the tip; third linear, slightly ascending, a little shorter 

 than the second. Fore tegula? with two oblique brown streaks. 

 Pectus white. Legs white ; tibiae and tarsi mostly brown on the 

 upper side ; fore femora and fore tibiae slightly pilose. Fore wings 

 hardly acute, slightly black-speckled ; a broad brown band near the 

 base, including four dentate blackish lines ; two blackish postmediai 

 much outward curved lines, which are approximate to each other, 

 and of which the first is darker and more concise than the second ; 

 submarginal line brown, zigzag ; marginal lunules brown ; two 

 brownish elongated patches, one on the costa near the tip, the other 

 on the interior border ; orbicular and reniform represented by two 

 blackish dots, of which the scales are obliquely ascending, the latter 

 included in a large oblique elongated blackish ringlet ; exterior 

 border slightly convex, hardly oblique. Hind wings cinereous, 

 with a broad darker marginal band. Length of the body 8 lines ; 

 of the wings 18 lines. 



o. Ceylon. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Othoea i mp rim ens. 



Mas. Obscure fusca ; abdomen cinereo-fuscum, nigro conspersum 

 et vittatum, segmentis albo marginatis, fasciculo apicali 

 furcato ; alee anticce vitla postica nigra albo liturata, 

 lineis indisiinctis diffmis nigricantibus, litieis duabus nigris 

 angustis bene determinatis , 2aflexa, annulo intermedio nigro 

 lineolam nigram includente ; posticce cinereo-fuscce. 



Male Dark brown ? cinereous-brown beneath. Body and 

 legs whitish beneath. Frontal tuft porrect. Palpi longer than the 

 breadth of the head ; second joint obliquely ascending, whitish 



