LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 781 



blackish bands. Fore wings aeneous-brown, with many wbi'tish 

 points, which are largest and most concise along die costa and along 

 the interior border ; fringe aeneous. Hind wings aeneous ; fringe long 

 towards theinterior angle. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 

 12 lines. 



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Genus 67. IPPA. 



Mas. Corpus sat gracile. Caput pilis squamosis deusissime 

 vestitum. Palpi ascendeutes, robusti, subarcuati, squamoso-pilosi, 

 capitis latitudioe paullo longiores ; articulus 3us lanceolalus 2o 

 paullo brevior. Antennae glabrae, robustae. Abdomen alas poslicas 

 plus dimidio superans. Pedes robusti. Alae auticae longae, angustae, 

 vix acutae, margine exieriorc subconvexo perobliquo. 



Allied to the Tineidce. Male. — Body rather slender. Head 

 very thickly clothed with short squamous hairs. Palpi ascending, 

 stouf, very slightly curved, a Utile longer than the breadth of the 

 head, ihick'y covered in front with short smooth squamous hairs ; 

 third joint lanceolate, n little shorter than the second. Antennae 

 smooth, "tout, nearly as long as the fore wings. Abdomen extending 

 for more than half its length beyo'id the hind wings. Legs stout, 

 smoo h ; spurs long. Wings long, narrow, hardly acute; fringe 

 long. Fore wings with a slightly convex and extremely oblique 

 exterior border. 



1. Ippa vacivella. 



Mas. Subanco-cinerea ; ah? an lias aigro conspersa. punctis mar- 

 ginalibm nigris, pun "lis quaiuor cosialibus uwjoribus gatlisque 

 duab us discalibus nigris. 



Ma/p. Cinereous, with a slight aeneous tin»e. Fore wings 

 roinutei) black speckled, will) black ooints along the apical part of 

 the costa and along the exterior norder ; luiir larger black points on 

 the costa, two near the base ami two beyond the middle ; two black 

 dots in the disk, one near the base, the other beyond the middle. 

 Hind wings a little pale>- than the fore wings. Length oi the body 

 8J lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. North Hindostan. Presented by Uapl. Strachey. 



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