﻿1008 CATALOGUE OF 



dimidio breviores. Abdomen alas posticas plus triente superans. 

 Pedes validi, pilosi; tibiae posticse calcaribus lono:is. Alae anticae 

 breviusculae, sat angustae, apud costam rectse, apice subrotundataB, 

 margine exteriore subangulato. 



Male, Body stout. Head with a tuft in front. Proboscis 

 moderately long. Palpi ascending, stout ; third joint cylindrical, 

 more than half the length of the second. Antennse stout, simple, 

 less than half the length of tbe body. Abdomen extending for 

 more than one-third of its length beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 stout, pilose ; hind tibiae with long spurs. Fore wings rather short 

 and narrow, straight along tbe costa, somewhat rounded at the tips ; 

 exterior border forming a slight angle in the middle, behind which 

 it is very oblique. 



1. Taegalla infida. 



Mas. Cinereo-cervina ; caput nigro conspersum ; palpi ex parte 

 nigri ; alee anticce intus nigro subconspersce^ fascia recta 

 obliqua albida, extus canescentes, reniformi lulea perangusta, 

 orbiculari e gutla alba, costa fer rug inea albido notata, lituris 

 exterioribus maculaque costali subapicali trigona ferrugineis^ 

 gutta discali punctisque marginalihus nigris ; posticce cupreo- 

 fuscce, subdenticulatce, linea nigra marginali undulata, litura 

 postica albida, ciliis pallidis. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour. Head speckled with black. 

 Palpi partly black. Fore wings slightly speckled with black in the 

 interior part, which is divided from the somewhat hoary exterior 

 part by a straight oblique whitish band ; the latter is partly formed 

 by the reniform spot, which is luteous and very narrow ; orbicular 

 forming a white dot ; costa ferruginous, with whitish marks ; some 

 ferruginous marks beyond the reniform, and a triangular ferrugi- 

 nous costal spot near the tip ; a black dot in the disk behind the 

 costal spot, and a row of black marginal points. Hind wings 

 cupreous-brown, slightly denticulated, with a black marginal undu- 

 lating line, with a whitish mark by the interior angle and with pale 

 ciliae. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 



a. Hindostan. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



