LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 965 



2. EUMETA TeMPLETONII. 



Nigro -purpureas, hirsutus ; abdomen obscure fuscum, fasciculis 

 later alibus ; antenna f us cce, dimidio basali pectinatce ; pedes 

 antici hirsuti, posteriores tarsique subnudi ; alee anticce cinerece 

 elongatce, striga nigra centrali triangularis duabusque apicem 

 versus minoribus minusque distinctis in lineam dispositis ; 

 posticce securiformes triangulares concolores. 



Oiketicus tertius, Templetoji, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. v. 39, pi. 5, 



f. 1—5. 

 Oiketicus Templetonii, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. (1854) 234, pi. 36, 



f.2. 



Ceylon. 



a. Hong Kong. From Mr. Harrington's collection. 



Genus 13. LABEDERA. 



Mas. Corpus valde robustum et pilosum. Palpi breves, 

 validi, pilosi, caput vix superantes ; articulus 3us minutus, conicus. 

 Antennae thorace longiores, dimidio apicali late pectinatae, apices 

 versus subpectinatae. Abdomen thorace paullo longius, alas posticas 

 vix superans. Pedes validi, pilis longis vestiti; tarsi breviusculi. 

 Ala3 semihyalinae, subpubescentes ; anticae longiusculae, non latae, 

 apud costam rectae, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore perobliquo ; 

 posticae latiusculas, subtruncatae. 



Male. Body very stout and pilose. Palpi short, stout, pilose, 

 hardly extending beyond the head; third joint minute, conical. 

 Antennae longer than the thorax, deeply pectinated to nearly half 

 the length, slightly pectinated from thence to the tips. Abdomen 

 somewhat longer than the thorax, extending very little beyond the 

 hind wings. Legs stout; tarsi rather short, clothed, like the femora 

 and tibiae, with long hairs. Wings semibyaline, thinly pubescent. 

 Fore wings rather long, not broad, straight along the costa, rounded 

 at the tips s very oblique along the exterior border ; three superior 

 and three inferior veins ; third superior vein short ; first forked at 

 half its length ; first and second inferior veins almost contiguous ; 

 third remote ; submedian and internal veins parallel to each other. 

 Hind wings rather broad, slightly truncated, not more than half the 

 length of the fore wings. 



