LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 993 



hind wings; apical tuft very small. Legs stout, pilose. Wings 

 beneath yellowish along the costa, with a brown discal lunule and 

 with a broad brown marginal band. Fore wings acute, brown- 

 speckled, with two slightly oblique brown lines; first line straight, 

 antemedial ; second postmedial, almost straight, except near the 

 costa, where it is acutely retracted ; a brown deeply undulating 

 submarginal line; a ferruginous patch along the apical part of the 

 costa; a brown lunule between the first and second lines; marginal 

 points black. Hind wings cinereous, with a broad brown border. 

 Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings J 8 lines. 



a. North Hindostan. From the Entomological Society's collection. 



POAPHILA IRRECTA. 



Mas. Subcervino-ochracea ; fasciculus frontalis productus ; palpi 

 vix ascendentes, capitis latitudine non breviores, articulo 2o 

 subfimbriato, So brevissimo ; antenne breves; thorax anticce 

 rufescente-cinereus ; alee elongatce, linea recta obliqua saturate 

 ochracea apud costam retracta, linea submarginali undulata 

 e punctis nigris albido notatis, linea media subrecta indis- 

 tincta saturate ochracea, plaga postica nigricante ; anticce 

 linea basali saturate ochracea, reniformi sat angusta fuscescente 

 marginata. 



Male. Ochraeeous, slender, with a tinge of fawn-colour, 

 bright ochraeeous beneath. Frontal tuft prominent. Palpi hardly 

 ascending, extending somewhat beyond the head and full as long 

 as its breadth; second joint with a very short fringe on both sides ; 

 third extremely short. Antennae short, minutely setulose. Fore 

 part of the thorax reddish cinereous. Abdomen not extending 

 beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft elongate, slightly compressed. 

 Legs smooth, rather slender. Wings elongate, with a straight deep 

 ochraeeous line, which extends from two-thirds of the length of the 

 interior border of the hind wings towards the tips of the fore wings, 

 near which it is retracted to the costa ; submarginal line undulating, 

 composed of black whitish-marked points, concealed towards the 

 interior border by a blackish patch ; an indistinct nearly straight 

 deep ochraeeous line adjoining the inner side of the reniform mark ; 

 under side with two denticulated blackish lines ; marginal festoon 

 brown. Fore wings acute, with a deep ochraeeous line near the 

 ba%e on the inner side of the orbicular mark, which forms a blackish 

 point ; reniform brownish-bordered, rather narrow; subapical point 



