LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 823 



1. Maris ba basivitta. 



Mas. Pallide cinereo-cervina ; palporum articulus 2us nigricante 

 fimbriatus ; alee anticce atomis paucis vittague divisa abbre- 

 viate! fusco marginata nigris, strigula transversa discali mar- 

 ginegue exterior e nigricantibus. 



Male. Pale cinereous fawn-colour. Second joint of the palpi 

 fringed with blackish hairs. Fore legs mostly blackish. Fore wings 

 with a few black speckles, and with a black dislocated brown-bor- 

 dered stripe, which extends along half the length from the base ; an 

 exterior short oblique blackish streak in the disk ; exterior border 

 and fringe blackish ; a hoary tinge along the costa. Hind wings a 

 little paler than the fore wings. Leugth of the body 8 lines ; of 

 the wings 20 lines. 



a. Australia. From Mr. Darnel's collection. 



Genus 118. LABDIA. 



Mas etfeem. Corpus sat gracile. Frons yalde obliqua. Pro- 

 boscis sat longa. Palpi glabri, gracillimi, capitis latitudine triplo 

 longiores ; articulus 3us 2o non brevior. Antennae gracillirnae, Ion- 

 giusculae. Abdomen alas posticas longe superans. Pedes graciles. 

 Alae latissime fimbriate; antica? acutae, sat angustae ; posticae per- 

 augustae. 



Allied to CEcophora. Male and female. — Body rather slender. 

 Head smooth ; front very oblique. Proboscis moderately long. 

 Palpi smooth, very slender, full tbrice longer than the breadth of 

 the head ; third joint full as long as the second. AntennaB very 

 slender, rather long, shorter than the fore wings. Abdomen ex- 

 tending much beyond the fringe of the hind wings. Legs smooth, 

 slender. Wings with an extremely long fringe. Fore wings acute, 

 rather narrow ; exterior border extremely oblique. Hind wings 

 very narrow. 



1. Labdia deliciosella. 



Mas et foem. Saturate ochracea ; caput antice flavescens ; abdo- 

 men luteum^ apicem versus nigrum ; al& anticce strigulis tribus 

 argenteis, dimidio exteriore Icete flavo strigulas duas trans- 

 versas nigras gultamgue auratam micantem includente, margine 

 exteriore cupreo guttas duasflavas includente ; postica cuprea, 

 fimbria aurato-Jiava. 



