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higher than the vertex ; third joint linear, a little shorter than the 

 second. Antennae broadly pectinated along three-fourths of the 

 length, setose from thence to the tips. Abdomen tapering from the 

 base to the tip, extending much beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft 

 small, elongate, slightly compressed. Legs stout, smooth ; spurs 

 long, slender. Wings moderately broad; exterior border obtusely 

 angular in the middle. Fore wings acute; second inferior vein 

 equally distant and rather remote from the first and the third ; 

 fourth remote from the third. \ 



Leida pallida. 



Mas. Pallide cinereo-ochracea ; caput et thorax anticus pallide 

 cervina ; alee fusco nigroque conspersa, tinea fusca obliqua 

 mbrecta cinereo pallido marginata apud cos tarn retracta, 

 linea submarginali subundulata e punclis nigris,punctis mar- 

 ginalibus nigris ; anticce gutta basali, orbiculari lineaque in- 

 termedia, indistincta nigricantibus, reniformi nigricante sub- 

 marginata ; postica? reniformi e guttis duabus nigricanti- 

 bus. 



Male. Pale cinereous-ochraceous. Head, palpi and fore part 

 of the thorax pale fawn-colour. Wings minutely brown and black- 

 speckled, with a brown nearly straight line, which is bordered with 

 pale cinereous on the outer side, and which extends from the interior 

 augle of the hind wings to very near the costa at rive-sixths of the 

 length of the latter, where it is very abruptly retracted ; a slightly 

 undulating submarginal line of black points ; marginal points 

 black ; under side with a denticulated blackish postmedial line. 

 Fore wings with an indistinct blackish line between a blackish dot 

 near the base and the orbicular mark, which is also a blackish dot; 

 reniform incompletely blackish-bordered. Hind wings with the 

 reniform mark represented by two black dots. Length of the body 

 1\ lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Venezuela. In Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Fam. THERMESID.E, C. L. H. xv. 1545. 

 Genus SYMPIS, C. L. H. xv. 1548. 



SVMPIS SUBUNITA. 



subunita, Cat. Lep. Het. xv. 1549. 



a. Java. Presented by the Secretary of the India Board, 



