1518 CATALOGUE OF 



longiores; articulus 3us obtusus, 2o brevior. Antennae graefles. 

 Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes breves, robusti ; calcaria 

 longa, gracilia. Ala? latae, breviuscula? ; anticae apice rectangulatae, 

 costae dimidio basali convexo, margine exteriore subconvexo non 

 obliquo; posticas margine interiore dense fimbriato. 



Female. Body stout. Frontal tuft slightly prominent. Pro- 

 boscis short. Palpi broad, squamous, twice longer than the breadth 

 of the head; third joint rather shorter than the second, obtuse at 

 the tip. Antennae slender. Abdomen not extending beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs short, stout ; spurs long, slender. Wings broad, 

 rather short. Fore wings rectangular at the tips; costa convex for 

 half the length from the base; exterior border slightly rounded, not 

 oblique; third inferior vein remote from the second; fourth more 

 remote from the third. Hind wings densely fringed along the 

 interior border. 



Methora tortricalis. 



Fcem. Rufescens ; palpi nigricant.es ; alee anticce apud marginem 

 exteriorem obscuriores, linen duabus cinereis, la undulata, 

 2a obligua, punctis tribus costalibus nigricantibus elongatis ; 

 postica fuscescentes. 



Female. Reddish. Body beneath and legs cinereous. Palpi 

 mostly blackish on the outer side. Wings with black marginal 

 lunules, which are apparent on the under side only of the hind 

 wings. Fore wings irregularly darker about the exterior border, 

 with two cinereous lines; first line autemedial, undulating; second 

 extending from somewhat beyond the middle of the costa nearly to 

 the exterior border at one-fourth of the length of the latter from the 

 interior angle; three elongated blackish costal points near the tip. 

 Hind wings brownish. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 

 18 lines. 



a. Java. Presented by the Secretary of the India Board. 



Fam. HERMINIDjE, C. L. H. xvi. 85. 



Genus HERMINIA, C. L. H. xvi. 96. 



Heeminia? incertalis. 



Mas. Cinereo-fusca ; palpi graciles, late fimbriati, oblique 

 ascendentes, verticem longe superantes % articulo do lanceolato 

 gracillimo ; antennae subpectinatce ; alee lata, linea marginali 

 fusca, fimbria albida ; anticee peracuta, lineis tribus albidis 

 obliquis subrectis fusco marginatis, striga brevi transversa 



