1044 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus 35. DAMATA. 



Mas. Corpus robustum, pilosum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi 

 breves, pilosi; articulus 2us lo multo longior ; 3us minimus. An- 

 tennae latissime ciliatae, apice nudae, corporis dimiclio longiores. 

 Abdomen alas posticas triente superans. Pedes validi, pilosissimi ; 

 tarsi pilosi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus apicalibus parvis. Alee 

 angustae, longissimae ; anticae apud costam vix convexae, apice 

 rotundatae ; margine exteriore valde obliquo. 



Male. Body stout, hairy. Proboscis short, not so long as the 

 breadth of the head. Palpi short and pilose ; second joint much 

 longer than the first ; third very small. Antennae rather more than 

 half the length of the body, very deeply pectinated to five-sixths of 

 the length ; branches ciliated. Abdomen extending for one-third of 

 its length beyond the hind wings. Legs stout, very pilose ; tarsi 

 pilose ; hind tibiae with small apical spurs. Wings narrow, very 

 long. Fore wings hardly convex along the costa, rounded at 

 the tips ; exterior border very oblique, slightly concave posteriorly ; 

 three inferior veins ; second nearly thrice further from the third 

 than from the first. Hind wings with the exterior border slightly 

 undulating towards the interior border; first and second inferior 

 veins nearly united at the base; third rather remote. 



1. Damata longipennis. 



Mas. Fusco-rufa, albo varia ; antenna nigrce; thorax albo et 

 rufo bimaculatus ; abdomen fuscum, albo bistrigatum ; alee 

 anticce argenteo-albce, cinereo tinctce, nigro conspersa? et macu- 

 late ; postica? argenteo-albm, semihyalinee, fusco marginata? et 

 unimaculat(e 9 rufo ciliata, margine interiore albo, 



Male. Brownish red, with some white hairs interspersed. 

 Antennae black. Thorax with a large white triangular spot on each 

 side ; a small red spot on the dorsal side of each spot. Abdomen 

 brown, with a white streak along each side. Fore wings silvery 

 white, flecked with black, and for the most part slightly shaded with 

 a pale cinereous tinge ; two small snowy white patches on the discal 

 areolet ; four nearly triangular blackish spots, two on the costa, and 

 two on the interior border ; first costal spot near the base, larger 

 than the others ; a black mark between it and the second, which is 

 attenuated into the disk j a row of oblong blackish red-bordered 

 spots along the exterior border. Hind wings silvery white, semi- 

 hyaline, white and more thickly clothed with hairs towards the inte- 



