LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1001 



apical tuft elongate. Legs slender ; femora slightly pilose. Fore 

 wings acute, with two short black costal streaks and two black sub- 

 costal points ; first streak connected wilh a zigzag fawn-coloured 

 line which is not oblique ; a brown basal point; an oblique blackish 

 deeply and irregularly undulating band which extends from a little 

 beyond the middle of the interior border, ceases near the costa at 

 three-fourths of the length of the latter, is very concise on its inner 

 side and very diffuse on its outer side ; four whitish costal points 

 near the tip ; marginal points black ; exterior border slightly con- 

 vex, moderately oblique. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 

 14 lines. 

 a. Hindostan. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



Genus ELOCUSSA. 



Male. Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis mediocris. Palpi 

 pubescentes, sat graciles, oblique ascendentes, verticem paullo 

 superantes; articulus 3us lanceolatus, 2i dimidio non brevior. 

 Antenna? setosae. Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans; fasci- 

 culus apicalis minimus. Pedes subfimbriati ; calcaria longa, gra- 

 cilia. Alae antioae latae, subfalcatae, acutae, margine exteriore 

 angulato. 



Male. Body rather slender. Proboscis moderately long. 

 Palpi pubescent, rather slender, obliquely ascending, rising rather 

 higher than the vertex; third joint lanceolate, full half the length 

 of the second. Antennae setose. Abdomen smooth, extending a 

 little beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft extremely small. Legs 

 moderately long and stout ; femora and tibiae with a short dense 

 fringe ; hind tibiae with four long slender spurs. Wings broad. 

 Fore wings acute, subfalcate ; exterior border angular in the 

 middle; second inferior vein as near to the third as to the first ; 

 fourth moderately remote. 



Elocussa gortynoides. 



Mas. Pallide einerto-cervina ; caput et thorax anticus saturate 

 cervina ; alee antica nigra subconspersce, striga basali, linea 

 undulata fasciaque exteriore obscure cervinis, fascia fusco 

 subnebulosa lineis duabus obscurioribus dentatis marginata 

 antice dilatata reniforme albido notatam includente, orbi- 

 culari alba punctiformi, linea submarginali fusca dentata ; 

 posticce fuscescentes, fusco trilineata. 



