1298 CATALOGUE OF 



white and with a short thick fringe beneath ; third joint very minute. 

 Antennae minutely pubescent. Abdomen lanceolate, extending for 

 nearly half its length beyond the hind wings ; hind borders of the 

 segments silvery white. Legs slender ; fore tibia? with two brown 

 bands ; joints of the fore tarsi with brown bands. Wings iridescent, 

 rather broad; space from the base to beyond the middle mostly 

 white and nearly hyaline. Fore wings acute, brown at the base, 

 with a brown costal stripe, and with two quadrate brown spots, which 

 are connected with the stripe ; an exterior interrupted brown line ; 

 a more exterior short transverse white nearly hyaline streak ; exte- 

 rior border slightly convex and oblique. Hind wings with a zigzag 

 brown band and with an exterior zigzag brown line. Length of 

 the body 5 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Hindostan. Presented by Sir. J. Hearsey. 



jEdiodes bootanalis. 



Mas. Cupreo-fusca ; palpi graciles, fimbriati, suberecti, verticem 

 paullo superantes, articulo 3o conico ; antenna dense setosce ; 

 abdominis segmenta albo marginata ; alee anticce,puncto basalt, 

 macula antemedia transversa, macula costali postmedia trans- 

 versa, gutta submarginali guttaque postica albis, fimbria pos- 

 tica alba ; posticce macula basalt, macula postmedia magna 

 maculaque submarginali angusta transversa albis, fimbria apice 

 alba. 



Male. Cupreous-brown. Body beneath silvery white. Palpi 

 slender, fringed, nearly erect, white beneath, except at the tips, 

 rising a little higher than the vertex; third joint conical, not more 

 than one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae densely 

 setose. Abdomen lanceolate, extending for half its length beyond 

 the hind wings; hind borders of the segments white; under side 

 with a cupreous band on the fore border of each segment. Femora 

 beneath mostly silvery white. Fore wings acute, with five white 

 marks; a point in the disk near the base, a transverse spot in the 

 disk before the middle ; a transverse costal spot at three-fourths of 

 the length, a transverse dot near the interior border beyond the 

 middle and another near the middle of the exterior border; fringe 

 white near the interior angle. Hind wings with three white marks ; 

 a narrow transverse spot near the hind part of the exterior border ; 

 a large round spot in the disk beyond the middle and another near 



