1216 CATALOGUE OF 



Female, Reddish fawn-colour. Body testaceous beneath. 

 Third joint of the palpi much longer than the second. Abdomen 

 and bind wings gilded yellow. Fore wings with two blackish points 

 placed longitudinally in the disk ; two oblique cinereous diffusedly 

 brown-bordered streaks extending from the interior border to the 

 disk ; a gilded cinereous tinge about the tips ; exterior border 

 slightly convex and oblique ; under side blackish, with a gilded yel- 

 low subcostal line and a gilded yellow apical patch. Length of the 

 body 5 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



a, b. North Hindostan. From the collection of the Entomological 



Society. 

 c. Hindostan. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



Genus TRAUAXA. 



Mas. Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis longiuscula. Palpi gra- 

 ciles, brevissimi. squamoso-pilosi, oblique ascendentes. Antennae 

 subpectinata?. Abdomen lanceolatum, alas posticas sat superans ; 

 fasciculus apicalis minimus, subcompressus. Pedes laeves; calcaria 

 longa, gracilia. Alae breviusculaa, latiusculae, margine exteriore 

 subflexo. 



Male. Body rather slender. Proboscis somewhat long. Palpi 

 obliquely ascending, slender, squamous-pilose, very short. Antennae 

 slightly pectinated. Abdomen lanceolate, extending somewhat be- 

 yond the hind wings ; apical tuft very small, slightly compressed. 

 Legs smooth ; spurs long, slender. Wings rather short and broad ; 

 exterior border bent in the middle. Fore wings acute; third infe- 

 rior vein four times more remote from the fourth than from the 

 second. 



Tkauaxa obliqualis. 



Mas. Alba ; abdomen pallide ochraceum ; alee anficce plaga dua- 

 bus viridibus, la maxima, 2a parva, striga intermedia obliqua 

 ochracea nigro marginata, linea alba undulata, macula mar- 

 ginali nigra ; posticce striga brevi lineaque marginali albo 

 marginata obscure fuscis. 



Male. White. Abdomen above with a pale ochraceous tinge. 

 Fore win^s with a very large concise dull green patch, which is di- 

 vided by an oblique ochraceous black-bordered streak from a smaller 

 less concise dull green patch, the latter extending to the exterior 

 border ; an undulating white transverse line ; a black spot on the 

 middle of the exterior border. Hind wings brownish cinereous, 



