﻿1298 CATALOGUE OF 



zigzag; submarginal band including a fawn-coloured angulose 

 line ; the submarginal lunules bordered with fawn-colour on the 

 exterior side. Fore wings with the ocellus having an incomplete 

 black border, which is partly interlined with white, its disk blackish, 

 greenish exteriorly, where it contains a minute white streak, an ir- 

 regular semicircular black line between it and the costa, and con- 

 nected with it at one end ; orbicular spot forming a small round 

 ringlet. Hind wings with the middle line much more acutely 

 denticulated than in the other species of the genus ; under side 

 with a submarginal line of while dots ; one white dot near the 

 interior angle of the fore wings. Length of the body 11 — 13 lines ; 

 of the wings 28—32 lines. 



a, b. Ceylon. Presented by K. Templeton, Esq. 



c. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



Genus 3. DASYPODIA. 



Corpus valde robustum. Proboscis longiuscula. Palpi erecti, 

 vix robusti ; articulus 2us longus, Bubarcuatus, pilis brevissimis ; 

 3us apicem versus vix lutescens, 2o valde gracilior. Antennae sat 

 valid ee, corporis dimidio longiores. Abdomen alas posticas non 

 superans; segmenta basalia longe pilosa. Pedes validi, densissime 

 pilosi ; tibiae posticse calcaribus longissimis. Alae mediocres, ro- 

 bustse, subdenticulatae ; anticae apicse subrotundatae, margine exle- 

 riore vix convexo sat obliquo. Mas. — Palporum articulus 3us 2i 

 dimidio valde brevior. Antennae subcrenulatae. Fcein. — Palporum 

 articulus 3us 2i dimidio valde longior. 



Dasypodia, Guen. Noct. iii. 174. 



Body very stout. Proboscis rather long. Palpi vertical, hardly 

 stout; second joint long, slightly curved, with very short hairs; 

 third hardly widening towards the tip, much more slender than the 

 second. Antennae rather stout, more than hall" the length of the 

 body. Abdomen with long hairs towards the base, not extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs stout, most densely pilose ; hind 

 tihiae with very long spurs. Wings very stout, moderately broad, 

 slightly denticulated. Fore wings slightly curved along the exterior 

 part of the costa, somewhat rounded at the tips, hardly convex and 

 rather oblique along the exterior border. Male, — Third joint of 

 the palpi much less than half the length of the second. Antennfe 

 very minutely crenulated. Female. — Third joint of the palpi much 

 more than half the length of the second. 



