LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1059 



cinereo nigricante marginato y reniformi e gutta punctoque 

 nigris annulo fusco inclusis. 



Male. Fawn-colour, somewhat ochraceous beneath. Palpi 

 compressed, smooth, obliquely ascending, hardly rising higher than 

 the vertex; third joint lanceolate, not more than one-fourth of the 

 length of the second. Antennae setulose. Abdomen hardly ex- 

 tending beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft small. Legs rather slen- 

 der; femora and tibiae slightly fringed. Wings elongate, minutely 

 brown-speckled, with a straight ferruginous line, which extends 

 from three-fourths of the length of the interior border of the hind 

 wings to the tips of the fore wings; a brownish indistinct diffuse 

 line on the inner side of the reniform mark ; submarginal line 

 slightly undulating, composed of blackish cinereous-marked points; 

 marginal festoon black ; fringe red ; postmedial line beneath 

 blackish, slightly undulating. Fore wings snbfalcate, acute, with a 

 blackish zigzag line near the base, and with a blackish oblique 

 costal streak at three-fourths of the length ; orbicular mark forming 

 a cinereous partly blackish-bordered point ; reniform represented by 

 a black dot and an exterior black point, which are enclosed in a 

 large irregular brown ringlet; under side with the reniform narrow, 

 whitish. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 19 lines. 



a. South Hindostan. Presented by M. J. Walhouse, Esq. 



b. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



Thermesia subcostalis. 



Fcem. Cinereo-cervina ; palpi fmce$entes, erectly verlicem longe 

 superantes, arliculo 2o fasciculalo, So lineari ; pedes fim- 

 briati ; alee elongatce, fusco conspersce, lineis duabus fuscis 

 suberectis obliquis apud costam retraclis, linea submarginafi 

 cinerea angulosa fusco marginata, punctis submarginalibm 

 nigricantibus ; anticce subfalcatce, pitrpurascente suffusce, 

 linea subcoslali fusca ; posticce puncto ante medio nigro, linea 

 2o arcuata. 

 Female. Cinereous fawn-colour. Palpi brownish, erect, pubes- 

 cent, rather stout, rising much higher than the vertex : second 

 joint with a porrect tuft towards the tip ; third linear, about half 

 the length of the second. Legs rather stout ; femora and tibiae 

 fringed ; spurs long, slender. Wings elongate, brown-speckled, 

 with two oblique brown lines, which are acutely retracted towards 

 the costa of the fore wings ; first line almost straight ; second 



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