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CATALOGUE OF 



Male Dark ferruginous, with a cupreous tinge. Palpi smooth; 

 third foint lout" linear Abdomen with small black tufts a bug each 

 Sdc and w thUree dorsal triangular spots. Legs silvery cinereous ; 

 arsi and Interior tibia, with silvery rin S s ; hind tib.» with a tuft of 

 black hairs at the base of each pair of spurs, which are very long 

 Fore win«s with minute transverse cinereous streaks, with three 

 blackish sSte and with a blackish marginal band ; first spot on the 

 Sterior horde, -at one-fourth of the length; second on the costa 

 Sore the middle; third on the costa beyond two-thirds of the 

 ienS; submarginal line whitish, oblique ; two black squamous 

 tufts on the interior border ; fringe whitish, with subquadrate black 

 dots Fore plume of the hind wings widening from the base to the 

 tip middle' plume narrower towards the lip ; hind plume very 

 X;ow?with a P black squamous tnft on the hind border near its Up. 

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

 a—c. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Templeton. 



Australia. 

 14. Platvptilcs emissalis. 



Mas Cinereo-fuscescens; ala antic* lituris tribus discalibus 

 fuscescenlibus, macula trigona costali nigncante, gulla coslah 

 exteriore albida, strigis dnabus submarginahbus mgricantibus, 

 linea transversa submarginali albida. Var. /3.-4te antica 

 cervina, lituris minus determinatis. 

 Male. Brownish, tinged with cinereous Legs whitish cine- 

 reous Wings rather broad. Fore wings with three small brown sh 

 marks in the disk before the middle; first mark near the costa ; 

 Tecond and third near the interior border; third behind the first; a 

 S^lar biackish costal spot prolonged across the *™f*"*to 

 a whkish dot on the costa ad pining the outer side of the spot two 

 blackish exterior streaks ; first streak costal ; second subcostal, much 

 shorter than the first; a whitish transverse submarg.nal 1™ «£" 

 secting the first streak, and contiguous to the outer end of the seco d 

 one • marginal line black ; fvinge whitish. Var p.-h awn-colour 

 Fo.e wiugs with the second blackish streak obsolete. Length of the 

 body 5—6 lines ; of the wings 10—12 lines. 

 a, b. Sydney. From Mr. Lambert's collection. 



