LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 146<) 



Male. Fawn-colour. Antennae testaceous, with tawny branches. 

 Fore wings testaceous, with several slender oblique minutely undu- 

 lating fawn-coloured bands, fawn-coloured at the base, and with 

 a broad fawn-coloured marginal band. Hind wings slightly testa- 

 ceous in the disk. Wings beneath with straight oblique testaceous 

 bands beyond the middle. Length of the body 17 lines; of the 

 wings 36 lines. 



a. Silhet. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Group 5. 



Fcem. Corpus crassum. Palpi caput sat superantes; articulus 

 3us brevissimus. Antennae subpectinatae, thorace breviores. Abdo- 

 men alas posticas paullo superans. Ala? longiusculae, mediocriter 

 latae; antioae subacuminatae, apud costam subconvexae, margine ex- 

 teriore subrecto sat obliquo. 



Female. Body thick. Palpi very thick, extending somewhat 

 beyond the head; third joint very short. Antennae slightly pecti- 

 nated, shorter than the thorax. Abdomen extending for one-fourth 

 of its length beyond the hind wings. Wings rather long, moderately 

 broad. Fore wings slightly acuminated, slightly convex in front, 

 nearly straight and rather oblique along the exterior border; first 

 and second inferior veins nearly contiguous at the base ; third 

 remote from the second and from the fourth. 



7. Lebeda plagifera. 



Fcem. Cervina ; palpi ferraginei ; antennae testacece ; alee antic ce 

 plagis duabus ferrugineis una discali pyriformi altera margi- 

 nally plaga cinerascente fasciaque exteriore e maculis fuscis ; 

 posticce fasciis duabus indistinctis obliquis obscurioribus. 



Female. Fawn-colour. Palpi ferruginous. Antennas testa- 

 ceous. Fore wings with a very large pyriform discal ferruginous 

 patch, which occupies full one-filth of its surface, its narrow end ex- 

 tending towards one-third of the length of the interior border, where 

 the brown streak, which mostly surrounds the ferruginous part, ends ; 

 a white line along the outer side of the ferruginous, and beyond 

 the latter a grayish space, which is succeeded by a short broad fer- 

 ruginous band along part of the exterior border; an undulating row 

 of brown spots between it and the grayish part: an indistinct brown 

 slender upright band near the base, and another proceeding from the 

 middle of the first ferruginous part to the middle of the interior 



