400 CATALOGUE OF 



streaked, two blackish patches on the interior border; a reddish 

 fawn-coloured costal stripe, which disappears towards the base ; 

 a row of minute oblique whitish costal streaks ; a short hindward 

 chalybeous submarginal line, which is accompanied by two or three 

 deep black longitudinal streaklets ; costa straight ; exterior border 

 slightly convex, hardly oblique. Hind wings blackish c»nereous 5 

 with an aeneous tinge. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 

 8 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



18. Carpocapsa deceetana. 



Fcern. Ferrugineo-fascd) subtus pallide cinerea ; alee anticte 

 pallide cinerece, fusco conspersce, apice rectangulatce^ fasciis 

 duabus latis ferrugineis postice abbreviatis, 2a. valde indeter- 

 minata, fascia la submarginali ferruginea ochraceo marginata^ 

 lituris costalibus parvis obliquis nigris ; posticce nigricante- 

 einerece. 



Female. Ferruginous-brown, pale cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 porrect, much shorter than the breadth of the head ; third joint 

 conical, not mote than one-fourth of the length of the second, Fore 

 wings pale cinereous, brown-speckled, rectangular at the tips, with 

 two broad ferruginous-brown hands, which are abbreviated hindward ; 

 second hand much abbreviated and incomplete; submarginal band 

 of the same hue, bordered with dull ochraceous, which colour ex- 

 tends along the exterior part of the costa; costa with small oblique 

 black marks; costa and exterior border very slightly convex, the 

 latter hardly oblique. Hind wings blackish cinereous. Length of 

 the body 2^ lines; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



19. Carpocapsa selectana. 



Cervina> subtus argentea ; thorax rufescente conspersus ; alee anticce 

 rufo strigalce, apice rotundatce, plug a margin ali nigricante 

 excavata, punctis tribus submarginalibus nigris. 



Fawn-colour. Abdomen, fore wings beneath and hind wings 

 blackish brown. Body silvery beneath. Thorax reddish-speckled. 

 Abdomen extending somewhat beyond' the hind wings. Fore winirs 

 rounded at the tips, longitudinally streaked with red ; an excavated 

 blackish patch on the hind part of the exterior border; three black 

 submarginal points ; a short whitish marginal line accompanied on the 



