1312 CATALOGUE OF 



rosy, small, compressed. Legs rather stout ; anterior tibia? mostly 

 yellow above, with a rosy dot at the base ; fore tarsi with two Yellow 

 slightly rosy-marked bands. Wings slightly rosy-speckled at the 

 base, with two very zigzag rosy lines; first line antemedial ; second 

 postmedial ; an undulating submarginal rosy band; fringe rosy, 

 white-bordered. Fore wings acute ; a large rosy patch extending 

 from the costa to the second line, which is much bent; exterior 

 border slightly convex, very oblique. Hind wings with a long white 

 fringe on the interior border. Length of the body 3 lines; of the 

 wings 7 lines. 



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



Genus LEUCINODES, C. L. H. xvii. 392. 



Leucinodes venustalis. 



Mas. Ochracea ; pa/pi verticem non superantes, articulo 2o ob- 

 lique ascendente nigro bipunctato, So lanceolato porrecto apice 

 nigra ; antenna ochracea, crenulatce, faseiculo parvo antemedio 

 nigro; alee albidce. fere hyalince, linea marginali nigra, fim- 

 bria ochracco varia ; anticce apud costam ochracea, strigis 

 tribus lads transversis purpurascentibus nigro marginatis, 

 spatio marginali ochraceo fasciam subhyalinam nigricante 

 marginatam guttamqne albam nigro marginatum includente^ 

 guttis quinqve costa/ibus albis nigricante marginatis ; posticce 

 linea postmedia nigra indeterminata, spatio exteriore och- 

 raceo. 



Male. Ochraceous. Body beneath and legs silvery white. 

 Palpi hardly angular, much shorter than the breadth of the head ; 

 second joint obliquely ascending, with two black points above; third 

 lanceolate, porreel, black toward the tip, much shorter than the 

 second. Antennae ochraceous, crenulate, with a small black tuft 

 above at one-third of the length. Legs slender. Wings whitish, 

 iridescent, nearly hyaline ; marginal line black, slender ; fringe 

 partly ochraceous. Fore wings acute, broadly ochraceous along the 

 costa, whence three broad bright purplish black-bordered streaks 

 extend to the disk ; one-third of the length from the exterior border 

 ochraceous, including a nearly hyaline irregular band (which is 

 blackish-bordered on the inner side) and a round white black-bor- 

 dered submarginal dot ; five white blackish-bordered costal dots ; 

 fringe with four small blackish marks ; exterior border very slightly 

 convex, rather oblique. Hind wings with an incomplete oblique 



