348 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. White, slightly silvered. Frontal tuft slightly promi- 

 nent. Palpi porrect, striped with deep Mack, extending very little 

 beyond the head; second joint pilose; third conical, not more than 

 one-sixth of the length of the second. Antennae very minutely 

 setulose. Thorax with a deep black transverse spot. Abdomen 

 mostly blackish, extending rather beyond the hind wings. Fore 

 wings with several zigzag deep black marks, and with a few deep 

 black points; costa and exterior border almost straight, the latter 

 hardly oblique; under side blackish, excepting the fringe and some 

 costal points. Hind wings blackish cinereous ; fringe white. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Nilghiri Hills. Presented by M. J. Walhouse, Esq. 



Borneo. 



55. SCIAPHILA? DITIORANA. 



Cinereo-fusca ; palpi arcuati, oblique ascendentes ; alee anticce 

 postice albidce, fascia informifusca, lineis transversis chaly- 

 bceis^ striga postica atra chalybceo tumido quadrifasciata. 



Cinereous-brown. Palpi curved, obliquely ascending, rising a 

 little higher than the vertex; third joint conical, minute. Antennae 

 smooth. Fore wings rectangular at the tips, mostly whitish hind- 

 ward, this hue interrupted by an irregular brown band ; some chalv- 

 beous lines extending from the costa to the disk ; subapical line 

 longer than the others, joining near the interior angle a deep black 

 oblique streak, which is traversed by four embossed cupreous bands ; 

 costa almost straight; exterior border slightly convex, moderately 

 oblique. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



Sarawak, Borneo. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 

 Australia. 



56. SCIAPHILA CONJUNCTANA. 



Mas. Obscure cinerea ; alee antica? argenteo-cinerea?, vix acuiw, 

 spatio costali et marginali obscure cinereo strigulis transversis 

 nigris, lituris costalibus fasciaque interrupta ferrugineis, striga 

 lata atra ; posticus fuscescente-cinerea?, singulis transversis 

 indistinctis juscis. 



Male. Dark cinereous, paler beneath. Palpi nearly erect, 

 not rising higher than the vertex; third joint conical, not more 



