LEPIDOPTEKA HETEROCERA. 1177 



slightly compressed. Legs smooth, slender. Wings elongate, 

 brown* speckled, with a broad paler band which includes two undu- 

 lating brown lines ; marginal line brown, interrupted between the 

 veins. Fore wings 'slightly acute ; reniform mark small, dark 

 brown ; exterior border convex, moderately oblique. Length of the 

 body 4% lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Sir A. Smith. 



Genus EGNASIA, C. L. H. xvi. 216. 



Egnasia curtalis. 



Mas. Ochraceo-cinerea, robusta ; palpi pubescentes, oblique 

 ascendentes, verticem longe super antes, articulo So lineari ; 

 antenna? setosce ; pedes breviusculi ; alee breviusculce, punctis 

 nigricantibus submarginalibus diffusis ; anticce linea basalt 

 arcuata angulosa lineaque submarginali dentata fuscis, lineis 

 duabus postmediis nigricantibus subundulatis. apud costam 

 retractis, margine exteriore subfiexo ; posticce linea basali sub- 

 angulosa, puncto lineaque exteriore duplicata diffusa vix 

 undulata nigricantibus, 



Male. Ochraceous-cinereous, stout. Frontal tuft porrect, 

 acute. Palpi pubescent, obliquely ascending, much longer than the 

 breadth of the head and rising much higher than the vertex ; third 

 joint linear, conical at the tip, much shorter and more slender than 

 the second. Antennae stout, setose. Abdomen extending rather 

 beyond the hind wings ; apical tuft small. Legs stout, smooth, 

 rather short. Wings rather short, with blackish diffuse submarginal 

 points and with a blackish marginal festoon. Fore wings acute, 

 with a brown outward-curved zigzag line near the base, and with 

 two blackish oblique slightly undulating postmedial lines, which are 

 much retracted towards the costa ; submarginal line brown, dentate ; 

 exterior border slightly bent in the middle. Hind wings with a 

 blackish slightly zigzag line near the base, with a blackish point 

 in the disk and with an exterior double diffuse blackish hardly 

 undulating line. Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 

 13 lines. 



a — c. Shanghai. From the Entomological Society's collection. 



