1370 CATALOGUE OF 



31. DlRPHIA ? ACONYTA. 



Fcem. Ferruginea ; abdomen alas poslicas superans ; alee antica 

 nigro conspersa, fusciis quatuor ohliquis strigisque exteriori- 

 bus pallidis. 



Phalaena-Bombyx Aconyta, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. 51, pi. 131, f. A. 

 Bombyx quadricincta, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. Ill, 44 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 



1,422,50. 

 Metanastria Aconyta, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 186, 1917. 



Female. Ferruginous. Abdomen extending for more than 

 one-fourth of its length beyond the wings. Fore wings thickly 

 sprinkled with black, adorned with four paler oblique bands ; first 

 and second bands very slender ; third broad, its interior border 

 undulating ; fourth less distinct, the space beyond it with paler 

 streaks. 



Bengal, Coromandel. 



Genus 32. EACLES. 



Corpus crassum. Proboscis brevis, vix conspicua. Palpi bre- 

 vissimi. Antennae thorace breviores. Abdomen alas posticas 

 nonnunquam superans. Pedes validi, longiusculi ; tibiae posticae 

 calcaribus duobus apicalibus minimis. Alee longiusculae, mediocri- 

 ter latee ; anticae acuminata, apud costam subconvexae, margine 

 exteriore perobliquo subrecto ; posticae abdomen nonnunquam su- 

 perantes. Mas. — Antennae late pectinatas, apices versus serratae, 

 nonnunquam totae mediocriter pectinatae. Fcem. — Antennae sim- 

 plices. 



Ceratocampa, Harris, Append. Hitchcock's Geol. Massach. ; Westw. 



Phalaena-Bombyx (Attacus), p., Drury ; Cram. ; Gmel. 



Bombyx, p. , Fabr.; Pal. Beauv.; Oliv. 



Phalaena, p., Abbot and Smith. 



Cerocampa, Kirby and Spence. 



Eacles, p., et Citheronia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 153. 



Body thick. Proboscis short, hardly visible. Palpi very short, 

 not extending so far as the head. Antennae a little shorter than the 

 thorax. Abdomen occasionally extending beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs stout, rather long ; hind tibiae with two very minute apical 

 spurs. Wings rather long, moderately broad. Fore wings acumi- 

 nated, very slightly convex in front; exterior border almost straight, 

 very oblique ; second inferior vein twice or more than four times 

 further from the third than from the first. Male. — Antennae deeply 



