﻿1666 CATALOGUE OF 



Male, Body very stout. Proboscis rather short. Palpi 

 vertical, stout, pubescent, closely applied to the head ; second joint 

 very slightly curved ; third conical, very minute, not more than one- 

 sixth of the length of the second. Antennae rather long and stout, 

 thickly crenulated with short ciliae, more than half the length of the 

 body. Thorax densely clothed. Abdomen lanceolate, somewhat 

 pilose, extending for half its length beyond the hind wings; two 

 apical valves clothed with nearly erect hairs. Legs stout, pilose ; 

 hind tibiae with very long spurs. Wings rather short and narrow\ 

 Fore wings slightly convex along the costa, nearly rectangular at 

 the tips; exterior border extremely oblique. Hind wings slightly 

 abbreviated. 



1. Brada truncata. 



Mas. Ryfescente-ferruginea ; corfus subtus alhidum ; abdomen 

 cinereo'fuscum^ fasciculo apicali alhido ; alee anticce lineis 

 duabus testaceis apud costam remotis, exteriore subarcuata, 

 strigis duabus obliquis submarginalibus fnscis, reniformi e 

 gutta transversa fusca; posticce fusccB, rnargine antico Jim- 

 briaque pallide cinereis. 



Male, Eeddish ferruginous. Body whitish beneath, except 

 towards the tip of the abdomen, where it is fawn-colour. Abdomen 

 cinereous-brown ; apical tuft whitish. Fore wings with two tes- 

 taceous lines, which are not remote from each other on the interior 

 border, but diverge from thence to the costa; the exterior one 

 slightly curved, and with two oblique brown strealis between it and 

 the exterior border ; reniform mark forming a transverse brown dot. 

 Hind wings brown, pale cinereous along the fore border, and with 

 a pale cinereous fringe. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 

 15 lines. 



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

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POLYTELA FLOEIFERA. 



Mas. Nigra ; caput liiuris duabus fascia que aniica luteis ; palpi 

 lutei^ nigro notati ; abdomen fasciis poster ioribns aptceque 

 luteis ; pedes luteo fasciati ; alee anticce cinereo-nigrce^ fasciis 

 luteis atro marginatis, dimidio apicali ex maxima parte roseo- 

 alba, lunulis marginalibus atris, fimbria luteo guttata ; posticce 

 pallide cinerece, rnargine lato cinereo-fusco, fimbria lutea. 



