﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1675 



Male. Body hardly stout. Proboscis short. Palpi ? Au- 

 tei)iiae setaceous, simple. Abdomen nearly linear, rather lon^, 

 extending: for about one-third of its length beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs rather long, moderately stout ; hind tibiae with very long spurs. 

 Wings rather long and narrow. Fore wings hardly convex along 

 the costa, rectangular and slightly rounded at the tips ; exterior 

 border convex, not oblique in front, rather oblique hindward. 



1. AviTTA SUBSIGNANS. 



Mas. Pallid e fits ca, stibtus cinereo-testacea ; abdomen cinereo- 

 fuscum ; alee suhtus macula magna discali lineague exteriore 

 fuscis ; anticce fasciis undulatis et reniformi funds valde 

 indistinctis ; posticce costa jimhriaque pallidioribus. 



Male. Pale brown, testaceous, with a slight cinereous tinge 

 beneath. Abdomen cinereous-brown. Wings beneath with a large 

 dark brown discal spot, and with an exterior brown line, which is 

 much curved in the hind wings. Fore wings with undulating very 

 indistinct brown bands; reniform mark also brown and very indif?- 

 linct. Hind wings paler along the costa and with a paler fringe. 

 Length of the body 6 — 7 lines ; of the wings 14 — 16 lines. 



jCanara. In the East India Company's collection. 



Page 161. 



Hydr^cia? cervago. 



j Spadicea; alee anticce spatio mediano obscuriore, basiferruginea 



(mas) autrufa {icem.)^striga interna ochracea (masj aut nulla 



{i(£m.),striga externa margini parallela apice incurva ochracea 



! (mas) aut ferrugineo-fusca (foem.), orbiculari et reniformi 



I parvis ferrugineo-ochraceis ; posticce albidce^ striga externa 



nigricante, 



Xanthia cervago, Eversm, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1844, 3, 

 594, 5, pi. 15, f. 1 ; 1855, 4, 376, 13. Faun. Volg. 612. 



prenbourg. 



