LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 805 



stout, as long as the fore wings ; joints subcyathiform, with acute 

 fure angles. Abdomen extending much beyond the hind wings ; 

 apical tuft very small. Legs stout, smooth ; hind tibiae slightly 

 fringed ; spurs very long. Wings rather narrow ; fringe long. 

 Fore wings acute : costa and exterior border nearly straight, the 

 latter moderately oblique. 



1. TlPASA BASALIELLA. 



Mas. Cervina; caput et thorax nigro-chalybcea ; abdomen cine- 

 reum; alee anticce nigro conspersce, basi nigro-chalybece ; 

 posticce cinerece. 



Male. Fawn-colour. Head, thorax and base of the fore wings 

 blackish chalybeous. Abdomen, hind wings and under side cinereous. 

 Fore wings minutely speckled with black. Length of the bo4y 

 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Templeton. 



Genus 97. TOCxMIA. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. Proboscis raediocris. Palpi capitis 

 latitudine triple longiores ; articulus 2us porreclus, compressus, 

 dense fimbriatus; 3us setiformis, erectus. Antennae glabrae, gra- 

 ciles, alis anticis perpaullo breviores. Abdomen alas posticas 

 diraidio superans ; fasciculus apicalis minimus. Pedes laeves, gra- 

 ciles, longiusculi, calcaribus longissimis. Alae anticae longae, angustae, 

 acutae, margine exteriore recto perobliquo. 



Allied to Ypsolophus. Male. — Body slender. Proboscis mode- 

 rately long. Palpi about thrice longer than the breadth of the head ; 

 second joint porrect, compressed, densely fringed above and beneath ; 

 third setiform, erect, less than halt* the length of the second. An- 

 tenna? smooth, slender, very little shorter than the fore wings. 

 Abdomen extending for full half its length beyond the hind wings ; 

 apical tuft very small. Legs smooth, slender, rather long ; spurs 

 very long. Wings long, narrow. Fore wings acute ; costa and 

 exterior border straight, the latter very oblique. 



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