﻿1102 CATALOGUE OF 



Wood-browD colour, brownish cinereous beneath. Thorax 

 bluish black, dark brown in front. Wings with a dark brown spot 

 in each disk, with a paler brown and very broad exterior band, with 

 elongated marginal black dots, and with dark brown tips ; ciliae 

 dark brown, with paler intervals. Fore wings bluish black at the 

 base, and with some dark brown costal marks. Length of the body 

 7 lines ; of the wings 17 lines. 

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



Genus 16. GADIETHA. 



Corpus robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi longi, ascendentes, 

 vix pilosi ; articulus 2us vix arcuatus ; 3us linearis, compressus, 2o 

 paullo brevior. Antennae validse, simplices, maris nonnunquam 

 serratae, corporis dimidio non longfiores. Thorax squamosus. Ab- 

 domen alas posticas superans. Pedes validi, pilosi ; tibiaB posticae 

 calcaribus longis robustis. Alse sat angustae ; anticae apud costam 

 subconvexae, apice vix angulatae, margine exteriore subconvexo 

 subangulato. 



Body stout. Proboscis short. Palpi long, ascending, hardly 

 pilose ; second joint very slightly curved ; third linear, compressed, 

 a little shorter than the second. Antennae stout, simple, occasion- 

 ally serrated in the males, hardly half the length of the body. 

 Thorax squamose. Abdomen extending for one-fourth or one-third 

 of its length beyond the hind wings. Legs stout, pilose ; hind 

 tibiae with long stout spurs. Wings rather narrow. Fore wings 

 slightly convex along the costa, hardly angular at the tips ; exterior 

 border slightly convex, hardly oblique in front, very oblique hind- 

 ward. 



1. GaDIBTHA INEXACTA* 



Mas. Pallide cinerea, subiridescens ; caput supra nigricans; 

 thorax fascia interrupta nigricante ; alee anticce ex parte 

 riifescentes, lineis duabus transversis incompleiis guttisque 

 elongatis marginalibus nigris, macula reniformi magna fusco 

 signata nigro marginata ; posticce fuscescentes^ basi cinerers, 

 lunulis marginalibus obscure fuscis, ciliis albidis. 

 Male. Pale cinereous, somewhat iridescent. Head partly 

 blackish above. Thorax with an interrupted blackish band. Fore 



