916 CATALOGUE OF 



MOEPA ALBIDENS. 



Foam. Fuscescente-cinerea ; palporum arliculus 3us albidus ; 

 alee anticce fuscce, lineis duabus dentatis nigris, linea submar- 

 ginali alba latiuscula subundulata subdenticulata, orbiculari 

 et reniformi indistinctis ; postiae cinereee, fuscescente mar- 

 ginata?. 



Female. Brownish cinereous, whitish cinereous beneath. 

 Third joint of the palpi whitish. Wings with a black marginal 

 festoon. Fore wings brown, with two black dentate lines ; first at 

 one-fourth of the length ; second at three-fourths of the length ; 

 submar^inal line white, rather broad, slightly undulating and den- 

 ticulated; orbicular and reniform marks indistinct. Hind wings 

 cinerous, brownish towards the exterior border, with a brown black 

 bordered band, and with two submarginal cinereous lines, which 

 like the band are obsolete towards the costa. Length of the body 

 6^ lines; of the wings 14 lines. 



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



Fain. CATEPHID^, C. L. H. xiii. 1121. 



Genus CATEPHIA, C. L. H. xiii. 1124. 



Catephia personata. 



Foam. Fuseescente-nigra, subtus albida ; abdomen subfuscescente- 

 albidum ; al& antica viridi, micantes ferrugineo substrigata, 

 play a costali pallide cinerea, lineis duabus annuloque inter- 

 medin nigris, linea la subundulata subdentata, 2a valde angu- 

 losa ; postica alba?, fascia lata mo,rginali nigricante. 



Female. Brownish black, whitish beneath. Abdomen whitish, 

 slightly tinged with brown. Fore wings with some bright green 

 metallic scales, slightly ferruginous-streaked ; a pale cinereous 

 costal patch ; two black lines ; a black ringlet in the middle of the 

 disk; interior line slightly undulating and dentate; exterior line 

 very deeply and irregularly zigzag ; marginal festoon black; 

 under side with two blackish bands, one irregular and exterior, the 

 other marginal. Hind wings whitish, with a broad marginal 

 blackish band, which is paler and much narrower in front. Length 

 of the body 10 lines; of the wings 24 lines. 



South Africa. In Mr. D'Urban's collection. 



