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lating white lines, between which in the disk there is an elongated 

 oblique pale brown white-bordered spot ; marginal points blackish, 

 white-bordered ; exterior border hardly convex, raiher oblique. 

 Hind wings white ; marginal points blackish. Length of the body 

 3£ lines; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. China. Presented by G. T. Laye, Esq. 



Genus HYMENIA, C. L. H. xvii. 395. 



Hymen ia meeidionalis. 



Foem. Ochracea ; palpi porrecti, articulo 2o piloso. So lanceolato ; 

 abdominis segmenta albo margin ata, fimbria alba fusco gut- 

 lata; aniicce, e maculis albis subhyalinis fusco marginatis tri- 

 fasciata ; postica alba, subhyalina;^ gutta antemedia ochracea, 

 fascia media postice attenuata fasciaque marginali gutlas 

 albas includente ochraceis fusco marginatis. 



Female. Ochraceous, slender. Body beneath and legs silvery 

 white. Palpi porrect, shorter than the breadth of the head ; second 

 joint pilose; third lanceolate, less than half the length of the second. 

 Antennae slender. Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind 

 wings ; hind borders of the segments white. Legs slender. Wings 

 with a brown marginal line ; fringe white, with brown dots. Fore 

 wings acute, with three incomplete bands composed of white irides- 

 cent brown-bordered nearly hyaline spots ; exterior border slightly 

 convex, very oblique. Hind wings white, nearly hyaline, with an 

 ochraceous brown-bordered band, which is attenuated hindward 

 and is accompanied on the inner side by an ochraceous dot; abroad 

 ochraceous brown-bordered marginal band containing along its inner 

 side some white nearly hyaline dots. Length of the body 4 lines ; 

 of the wings 10 lines. 



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

 Genus ISOPTEKYX, C. L. H. xvii. 398. 



ISOPTERYX SIGNIFEKALIS. 



signiferalis, Wlngr. Wien. EnU Mon. iv. 175. 



Tahiti. 



