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CATALOGUE OF 



PVRALIS DISJUNCTALIS. 



Fcem. Pallide cinerea ; caput et thorax anticus cervina ; palpi 

 cervim, ascendentes, verticem paullo superantes, articulo 3o 

 hneari 2o vix breviore ; ales longa, angusta, lineis cervinis 

 interrupts ; antica lineis quinque obscurioribus integris 3a 

 4aque connexis, 3a furcata, 4a subundulata, 5a latiore, gutta 

 albida. Var. £.— ■ Minor ; alee cervino et purpurascente suf- 

 jusa>, macula albida magis determinata. 



Female. Pale cinereous. Head and fore part of the thorax 

 iawn-colour. Palpi fawn-colour, smooth, slender, obliquely ascend, 

 mg, rising a little higher than the vertex ; third joint linear, nearly 

 as long as the second. Wings long, narrow, with some interrupted 

 iawn-coloured lines; under side glittering chalybeous, excepting 

 the lines. Fore wings acute, with live darker entire lines ; first and 

 second lines antemedial ; third forked in front, connected by a short 

 longitudinal streak with the fourth, which is slightly undulating • 

 fifth broader than the others, ending on the hind part of the exte- 

 rior border, which is convex and very oblique ; a white dot between 

 the forks of the third line. Var. /3.— Smaller. Wings, except 

 near the base, suffused with fawn-colour and tinged with purplish ; 

 spot on the disk more white and conspicuous. Length of the body 

 3—4 lines; of the wings 9—11 lines. 



Mysol. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Fam. ASOPID.E, C. L. H. xvii. 331. 

 Genus ^DIODES, C. L. H. xvii. 347. 



M DIODES SCISSALIS. 



Mas. Flava; caput antice fuscum; palpi fusci, erecti, latissimi, 

 articulo 3o conico ; thorax luteo conspersus ; abdomen cine- 

 rascens, basi flavum luteo conspersum ; alee dimidio basali 

 obliquoflavo luteo -consper so, lineis duabus nigris, 2a punctu- 

 lari, fascia exteriore glauco-cano, spatio marginali ferrugineo, 

 punctis marginalibus nigris elongatis ; anticce striga costali 

 nigra parva obliqua. 



Male. Yellow. Body beneath and legs silvery white. Head 

 brown m front. Palpi brown, erect, not rising so high as the vertex • 

 second joint much dilated ; third conical. Thorax with orange 



