LEFIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 10631 



with the interior angle promient. Length of the body 5 lines ; of 

 the wings 14 lines. 



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



Thermesia simplex. 



Fobiti. Cinerea ; palpi laves, verticem longissime superantes, 

 articalo 2o extus fusco, So lineari ; pedes laves ; alee linea 

 fusca recta obliqua ochraceo marginata, punctis rnarginalibus 

 nigris ; anticce acuta, reniformi e punctis duobus fuscis. 



Female. Cinereous. Palpi smooth, much compressed, much 

 longer than the breadth of the head, ascending very much above the 

 vertex; second joint brown on the outer side; third linear, much 

 shorter and more slender than the second. Legs smooth. Wings with 

 a straight oblique brown line, which is bordered with ochraceous on 

 its outer side, and extends from the lips of the fore wings to rather 

 beyond the middle of the interior border of the hind wings; an ochra- 

 ceous line slightly and irregularly bordered with brown on its outer 

 side ; marginal points black. Fore wings acute ; reniform mark 

 indicaed by two brown points. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the 

 wings 18 lines. 



a. Hindostan. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection ; 



Thermesia? retrahens. 



Mas. Cervina ; palpi squamnsi, verticem longe superantes, articulo 

 2o fimbriate, So lanceolato nigricanle albidoque consperso 

 apice albido ; pedes validi, tibiis Jimbriatis ; al<B lata, linea 

 cinerea obliqua subrecta fusco marginata apud costam re- 

 tracta, punctis submarginalibus niyricantibus ; antic a linea 

 ante media cinerea fusco marginata apud costam retracta, 

 strigula exteriore cinerea, margine exteriore subjlexo ; posticce 

 puncto fusco. 



Male. Fawn-colour, mostly cinereous beneath. Palpi squa- 

 mous, much longer than the breadth of the head and rising much 

 higher than the vertex ; second joint fringed on both sides ; third 

 lanceolate, blackish and whitish-speckled, whitish at the tip, much 

 shorter than the second. Antennae setose. Abdomen extending a 

 little beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft of moderate size. Legs 

 stout; tibiae fringed. Wings broad, with a nearly straight cinereous 

 line, which is brown-bordered on the inner side, and extends from 



