LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. Ill 



1. Allata penicillata. 



Mas. Cinereo-fusca ; palpi albo penicillati ; abdomen villa dor- 

 sail nigricante ; al<z anticce nigro conspersce, plaga basali, 

 tinea exleriore flexa gullaque discali subquadrata nigricanti- 

 bus ; posticce subveslilce, antice iridescenles. 



Male. Cinereous-brown, more cinereous beneath. Plume o^ 

 the palpi delicate, white, shining. Abdomen with a blackish dor- 

 sal stripe ; hind borders of the segments pale cinereous. Fore wings 

 black-speckled, with a blackish patch near the base, and with a bent 

 exterior blackish line, of which the middle part is almost obsolete ; 

 a blackish subquadrate dot in the fore part of the disk. Hind wings 

 thinly clothed, iridescent in front ; fringe pale cinereous. Length 

 of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 



Hindostan. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Genus 58. VOLOBILIS. 



Mas. Corpus sat robustum. Caput fasciculis duobus late- 

 ralibus penicillatis. Proboscis obsoleta. Palpi crassi, lanceolati, 

 oblique ascendentes, verticem superantes ; articulus 3us minimus. 

 Antennae validae ; articulus lus incrassatus ; 2us dilatatus, longi- 

 ovatus. Pedes longiusculi, sat validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 duobus apicalibns. Alae anticae angustae, elongatae; anticae vix 

 acutae, costa vix convexa, margine exteriore vix obliquo. 



Male. Body moderately stout. Head with a fan-shaped tuft 

 of hairs diverging from each side at the base of the palpi ; frontal 

 tuft prominent. Proboscis distinct. Palpi thick, lanceolate, ob- 

 liquely ascending, rising higher than the vertex; third joint acute, 

 very minute. An ten 1133 stout ; first joint incrassated ; second di- 

 lated, elongate-oval. Hind legs rather long and stout ; hind tibiae 

 with apical spurs only. Wings narrow, elongated. Fore wings 

 hardly acute ; costa hardly convex ; exterior border slightly convex, 

 hardly oblique. 



1. VOLOBILIS BIPLAGA. 



Mas. Rufescente-cervina ; alee subtus fusco-cinerece ; anticce di- 

 midio basali nigro conspersa, plaga exteriore costali nigra 

 elongata, lineis duabus dentatis pallide cinereis ; posticus 

 obscure cinerece, fimbria pallida. 



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