LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 997 



Female. Whitish cinereous, slender. Palpi slender, pubes- 

 cent, obliquely ascending, rising a little higher than the vertex ; 

 third joint lanceolate, a little shorter than the second. Abdomen 

 extending a little beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth, siender; 

 tarsi spinulose. Fore wings acute, with a brown stripe which 

 widens from near the base to three-fourths of the length, where it is 

 obliquely dilated and forms a very acute angle in front towards the 

 base, and has an ochraceous line along its hind side ; three 

 brownish lines, parallel to the exterior side of the stripe, connected 

 in front; a fawn-coloured costal stripe; marginal line brown ; ex- 

 terior border slightly convex, rather oblique. Hind wings pale 

 yellow ; marginal line ochraceous ; fringe whitish. Length of the 

 body 6J lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



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Sect. 

 Fcem. Corpus robustum, laeve. Fasciculus frontalis porrectus, 

 acutus. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi laeves, graciles, vix ascen- 

 dentes, caput longe superantes ; articulus 3us lanceolatus, 2o 

 paullo brevior. Antennae setulosae. Abdomen alas posticas paullo 

 superans. Pedes laeves, graciles; calcaria longa, gracilia. Ala? 

 anticae latse, acutae, margine exteriore convexo subobliquo. 



Female. Body stout, smooth. Frontal tuft porrect, acute. 

 Proboscis of the usual length. Palpi smooth, slender, very slightly 

 ascending, extending much beyond the head and a little longer 

 than its breadth ; third joint lanceolate, a little shorter than the 

 second. Antennae setulose. Abdomen extending a little beyond 

 the hind* wings. Legs smooth, slender; spurs long, slender. 

 Wings broad. Fore wings acute; exterior border convex, slightly 

 oblique; third inferior vein very near the second, which is still 

 nearer to the first ; fourth moderately remote. 



Phukys aeenosa. 



Foem. Subcervino-cinerea ; palpi extus fuscescentes ; alee linea 

 exteriore recta obliqua pallide cinerea punctis obscurioribus 

 ferrngineoque marginata, punctis submarginalibus nigri- 

 cantibus ; antica reniformi fasciisque duabus ante mediis 

 indeterminatis subobscurioribus. 



Female. Cinereous, with a tinge of fawn-colour. Palpi 

 brownish on the outer side. Wings with a straight oblique pale 

 cinereous postmedial line, which is ferruginous-bordered on the 

 outer side and is accompanied by indistinct darker dots on the 



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