LEPIDOPTERA HETE ROCE RA. 1 137 



Male. Fawn-colour, here and there slightly silvery. Head 

 with two yellow stripes on the vertex. Thorax yellow, fawn-colour 

 hindward and on each side in front. Abdomen with indistinct 

 silvery bands. Fore wings with an oblique and very broad yellow 

 band, which occupies the costa from a little beyond one-third to 

 three-fourths of the length of the wing, and extends along the basal 

 half of the interior border, and forms a nearly right angle on its 

 basal side. Length of the body 5£ lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Nepaul. Presented by Major-Gen. Hardwicke. 



11. Nyssia l,eta. 



Mas. Prasina ; caput antice, palpi, antenna?, pectus et pedes 

 fusca; thorax antice albidus ; abdomen albido- testae eum, vitta 

 apiceque fuscis; alee antica? fuscce, fascia perobliqua prasina 

 guttaque interiore alba ; postica? testacea?,fusco marginata?. 



Limacodes laeta, Westw. Cab. Orient. Ent. 50. 



Male. Grass-green. Head in front, palpi, antennae, pectus 

 and legs brown. Thorax whitish in front. Abdomen whitish tes- 

 taceous; stripe and tip brown. Fore wings brown, with a very ob- 

 lique grass-green band, which is indented on each side in the middle, 

 and is much narrower than that of the three preceding species ; a 

 white spot in the disk between the band and the base of the wing ; 

 under side paler. Hind wings testaceous, with brownish borders. 

 Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



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



12. Nyssia varia. 



Mas. Testacea ; ala? antica? ferrugineo fasciatim conspersa?, apices 

 versus fusca? viridi varia?, basi vittaque postica viridibus ; 

 postica? fusco marginata?. 



Male. Testaceous. Antennae tawny. Fore wings with fer- 

 ruginous flecks, which form zigzag transverse lines, green at the 

 base, and with an irregular green stripe near the interior border, 

 brown varied with green towards the tips. Hind wings with brown 

 borders. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



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