1058 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Fawn-colour, a little paler beneath. Abdomen not 

 extending beyond the bind wings. Legs smooth. Wings broad, 

 with a straight cinereous line, which extends from Iwo-thirds of the 

 length of the interior border of the hind wings towards the tips of 

 the fore wings, near which it is acutely retracted to the costa ; a 

 brown hardly undulating line near the base, bordered with cinereous 

 on the inner side, obsolete towards the inteiior border in the hind 

 wings, forming an acute angle near the cosia in the fore wings ; 

 marginal points black; fringe cinereous; underside with a post- 

 medial blackish diffuse denticulated line. Fore wings acute; reni- 

 form mark indistinct. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 

 17 lines. 



a. Silhet. From the Rev. Mr. Stainforth's collection. 



Thermesia despecta. 



Fcem. Fusca ; palpi subarcuati, capitis lafMudine mullo longiores, 

 articulo 2o subjimbriato, 3o lanceolato ; alee la fee, lineis tribus 

 pallide cinereis, \a 2aque denticulatis, 3a undulata submar- 

 ginali ; antica reniformi cintreafusco marginata. 



Female. Brown, cinereous-brown beneath. Palpi slender, 

 slightly curved, much longer than the breadth of the head and 

 rising very much higher than the vertex ; second joint with a very 

 short fringe on both sides ; third lanceolate, a little shorter than 

 the second. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs smooth, slender. Wings broad, with three pale cinereous 

 lines; first and second lines denticulated; first antemedial ; 

 second postmedial ; third undulating, suhmarginal. Fore wings 

 acute ; reniform mark cinereous, brown-bordered, of the usual 

 shape ; exterior border slightly convex and oblique. Length of the 

 body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



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



Thermesia transducta. 



Mas. Cervina ; palpi oblique ascendentes, verticem vix superantes, 

 articulo So lanceolato; alafusco consper see, linea recta obliqua 

 ferrvginea, linea interior e fuscescente diffusa in distincta, linea 

 submarginali subundulata e piinctis nigricantibus cinereo 

 notatis, fimbria rufa ; anticee subfalcata, linea basali angulosa 

 strigaque costali obliqua nigricantibus, orbiculari e puncto 



