LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1021 



Female. Hoary. Palpi blackish, with whitish tips. An- 

 tennae tawny. Fore wings with minute ferruginous flecks ; some 

 ferruginous marks towards the tips; under side mostly brownish. 

 Hind wings brownish, whitish beneath towards the base; a slender 

 ferruginous-brown whitish bordered band along the exterior margin. 

 Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by R. Templeton, Esq. 

 6. Silhet. From Mr. Stainforth's collection. 



Genus 21. LISTOCA. 



. Mas. Corpus robustum. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi 

 validi, porrecti, pilosissimi, caput superantes; articulus 3us parvus, 

 conicus. Antennas breviter pectinatae, thorace non longiores. Ab- 

 domen alas posticas non superans. Pedes validi, pilosi ; tibiae pos- 

 ticae calcaribus duobus minutis apicalibus. Alae mediocriter latae 

 et longae; anticae apud costam fere rectae, apice rotundatae, margine 

 exteriore obliquo, iuteriore recto basim versus fasciculato. 



Male. Body stout. Proboscis not visible. Palpi stout, por- 

 rect, very pilose, extending a little beyond the head ; third joint 

 small, conical. Antennae slightly pectinated, as long as the thorax. 

 Abdomen extending as far as the hind win^s. Legs stout, pilose ; 

 hind tibiae with two short apical spurs. Wings moderately long 

 and broad. Fore wings nearly straight along the costa, rounded at 

 the tips, oblique and entire along the exterior border ; interior bor- 

 der straight, slightly tufted towards the base ; three inferior veins ; 

 first and second nearly contiguous at the base ; third remote. 



1 . LlSTOCA LIGNARIA. 



Mas. Pallide cinerea, cervino vittata ; aire anticce basi costali et 

 apud discum cervina:, lineis duabus obliquis angulosis guttis- 

 que exterioribus fuscis, macula postica fuscescenle. 



Male. Pale cinereous. Body with a somewhat fawn-coloured 

 stiipe. Fore wings partly fawn-colour along the costa at the base 

 and in the disk ; two brown oblique zigzag lines, and an exterior 

 row of brown clots ; a brown spot at two-thirds of the length of the 

 exterior border ; fringe with brown spots opposite the veins. Hind 

 wings with a very pale brown spot by the interior angle. Length 

 of the body 6 — 7 lines; of the wings 16 — 18 lines. 



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



