38 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Brown, much paler beneath. Palpi curved over the 

 vertex ; first joint moderately long; second stout; third lanceolate, 

 about half the length of the second and much more slender. An- 

 tennae stout, minutely pubescent. Abdomen extending a little 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs siout; spurs very long ; fore tibias 

 very short. Fore wings rounded at the tips ; exterior border hardly 

 oblique; middle line testaceous, slightly undulating ; submarginal 

 points testaceous. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 

 lines. 

 Ceylon. In Mr. Layard's collection. 



48. Myelois? basifuscalis. 



Fcem. Cinerea ; palpi porrecti, capitis latitudine breviores, arti- 

 culo 3o lanceolato ; alee anticce triente basali fuscescente, lineis 

 duabus pallidis ex parte niyro marginatis, \a undulata, 2a 

 denticulata, punctis marginalibus nigris ; anticce reniformi 

 parva maculisque duabus discalibus nigricantibus. 



Female. Cinereous. Palpi porrect, not so long as the breadth 

 of the head ; third joint lanceolate, shorter and more slender than 

 the second. Antenna? much more than half the length of the body. 

 Abdomen elongate-conical, extending a little beyond the hind 

 wings. Wings brownish for nearly one- third of the length from the 

 base, this hue bounded by a pale undulating partly black-bordered 

 line; exterior line pale denticulated, partly black-bordered ; reni- 

 form mark of the fore wings small, blackish ; two blackish spots on 

 the inner side of the exterior line in the fore wings ; marginal 

 points black. Length of the body 3— 3J lines ; of the wings 7 — 8 

 lines. 



Ceylon. In Mr. Layard's collection. 



Genus 13. TRACHONITIS. 

 Trachonitis, ZL — Nephopteryx, Hb. 



Europe. 



1. Trachonitis cbistella. 

 cristella, Hb. — christella, Fr. 



a. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 



b. Italy. From Dr. Leach's collection. 



2. Tbachonitis amcenella. 

 amcenella, ZU 



