1150 CATALOGUE OF 



calcaria longa gracilia. Alae anticae lata?, acuta?, subelongatae, 

 plica costali subtus penicilla dua includente. 



Male. Body moderately stout. Frontal tuft prominent, acute. 

 Proboscis short. Palpi hirsute, obliquely ascending, broadly fringed 

 above to the tips, very much longer than the breadth of the head, 

 rising much higher than the vertex ; third joint lanceolate, nearly 

 half the length of the second. Antennas moderately pectinated, 

 except near the tips, where they are setose. Abdomen extending 

 very little beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft small, elongate, 

 slightly compressed. Legs hardly stout ; femora fringed ; spurs 

 long, slender. Wings broad, slightly elongate. Fore wings acute, 

 with a fold or lappet along half the length of the costa beneath ; two 

 long penicillate tufts beneath this fold; the one basal, radiating ; 

 the other decreasing in length along the fold ; exterior border con- 

 vex, moderately oblique ; second inferior vein contiguous to the 

 first and near the third at the base; fourth very remote from the 

 third. 



Allied to Ceraptila and to Sarmatia, from which genera it may 

 be distinguished by the structure of the palpi. 



Bhapsa scotosialis. 



Mas. Cinereo-cervina ; alee anticce nigricante subconspersce, 

 punclis basalibus nigris,gutta rufa nigro marginata, reniformi 

 magna nigricante strigam rufescentem includente, siriga exte- 

 riore undulata pallide cinerea, striga adhuc exteriore undulata 

 pallide ochracea, linen duabits nigricantibus angulosis fascia - 

 que fuscescente cinereo marginata submarginalibiis, macula 

 apicali pallide cinerea, lunulis marginalibus nigris ochraceo 

 pallido marginatis ; posticce cinerece, lineis duabus fuscescen- 

 tibus indistinctis subangulosis. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour, mostly cinereous beneath. 

 Le«s mostly brown above ; tips of the tibia? and of the joints of the 

 1 1 1 si cinereous. Fore wings very minutely blackish-speckled, with 

 a few black points near the base ; a red black-bordered dot repre- 

 senting the orbicular mark ; reniform large, irregular, consisting of 

 an irregular blackish mark which contains a reddish streak and is 

 divided by an undulating pale cinereous streak from a more deeply 

 uudulating pale ochraceous streak ; two exterior zigzag incomplete 

 blackish lines ; a more exterior brownish band, which is limited on 

 the outer side by a pale cinereous undulating line; the latter joins 



