LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1607 



Female. Whitish cinereous, dingy beneath. Head deep black ; 

 vertex white. Winu:s elongate, minutely black-speckled, with four 

 blackish oblique diffuse dentate lines ; third line a little more dis- 

 tinct than the others ; fourth line submarginal, much interrupted ; 

 discal point and marginal points black; fringe long. Fore wings 

 somewhat rounded at the tips; costa blackish along nearly half the 

 length from the base ; exterior border hardly convex, very oblique. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



Hindostan. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



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ACIDALIA SUBCANDIDATA. 



Mas. Albida ; caput nigrum, vertice albido ; palpi pubescemtes, 

 oblique ascendentes, articulo 3o minima; antenna pubescentes ; 

 tibia postica valde incrassata, non calcarata ; alee arnplce, 

 puncto discali punctisque marginalibus nigris ; anticce acuta. 



Male. Whitish. Head black ; vertex whitish. Palpi obliquely 

 ascending, pubescent, not rising so high as the vertex ; third joint 

 conical, very minute. Antennae pubescent. Abdomen extending a 

 little beyond the bind wings. Hind tibiae much incrassated, without 

 spurs. Wings ample, with a black discal point and black marginal 

 points, the latter very minute. Fore wings acute ; costa and exte- 

 rior border hardly convex, the latter moderately oblique. Length 

 of the body 6 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Shanghai. From the Entomological Society's collection. 



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ACIDALIA THEKMOSARIA. 



Mas. Rufescens ; caput albido fascialum; palpi subdecumbentes, 

 capitis latitudine non breviores, articulo 3o lineari ; antennce 

 late pectinate ; tibia postica bicalcarata, non incrassatce ; ala 

 lineis quatuor punctularibus punctisque marginalibus nigris, 

 punctis ex parte nigricante nebulosis ; antica vix acuta; pos- 

 tica puncto discali albo. 



Male. Keddisb, with a cinereous tinge beneath. Head with 

 a transverse whitish line in front. Palpi smooth, slightly decumbent, 

 as long as the breadth of the head ; third joint linear, about half 

 the length of the second. Antennae broadly pectinated, except 



