1178 CATALOGUE OF 



1. Cania SERICEA. 



Mas. Pallide testacea, nitens, ex parte lutea. 



Male. Pale testaceous, shining. Head, thorax in front, and 

 most of the abdomen beyond the middle with luteous hairs. Fore 

 wings mostly luteous in the disk towards the base and along the 

 onter border, and with an oblique luteous band at three-fourths of 

 the length ; under side of one colour. Length of the body 4 lines ; 

 of the wings 12 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Genus 13. CILIX. 



Corpus graeillimum. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi brevis- 

 simi ; articulus 3us obtusus, minimus. Antennae thorace multo 

 Ion gi ores. Pedes gracillimi, subnudi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 

 quatuor longis. Alae vix latae ; antics apud costam subrectae, apice 

 rotundata?, margine exteriore perobliquo ; posticae abdomen paullo 

 superantes. Mas. — Antennae subpectinatae. Fcem. — Antennae 

 simplices. 



Cilix, Leach. Edin. Encyel. ix. 134 ; Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Haust. 



iv. 8 ; Boisd. ; Herr.-Schceff. 

 Euclea, p., ITubn. Verz. Schmett. 149. 

 Geometra, p., Wien. Verz. 

 Bombyx, p., Fabr. 



Body very slender. Proboscis not visible. Palpi very short ; 

 third joint obtuse, very small. Antennae much longer than the tho- 

 rax. Abdomen extending to about three-fourths of the breadth of 

 the hind wings. Legs very slender, almost bare ; hind tibiae with 

 four long spurs. Wings hardly broad. Fore wings almost straight 

 along the costa, rounded at ihe tips, very oblique along the exterior 

 border ; interior angle rounded ; three inferior veins ; second as near 

 to the third as to the first. Male. — A'ntennae slightly pectinated. 

 Female. — Antennae simple. 



1. Cilix SPINULA. 



Candida ; alec an ticce fascia antice abbreviata guttisque marginalia 

 bus cinereis, plaga postica fusca. 



Bombyx Attacus ruffa ? Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, 1068. 



