﻿IKPIDOPTERA HETEKOCERA 1783 



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Abrostola transfixa. 



Var. ? Mas. Cinerea; thorax antice fascescens^ fasciis duabus 

 cinereis iinaqiie nigra ; alee anticce subcenea, apiid medium 

 obscuriores^ lineis interiore et exleriore undulatis lineaque 

 snbmarginali denticulata nigris, striga discali obliqua laiiceo- 

 lata testacea argenteo marginata, reniformi angusta nigro 

 marginata, vix excavata, margine interiore emarginato ; pos- 

 ticce ceneo-cinerecB. 



Male. Cinereous, paler beneath. Fore part of the thorax 

 brownish, with two cinereous bands and one black band. Fore 

 wings slightly aeneous, with the middle part darker than ihe rest of 

 the surface, bounded hj the interior and exterior black undulating 

 lines, and containing an oblique lanceolate tesiaceons silvery- 

 bordered streak, which interrupts the interior line; submarginal 

 line black, denticulated ; marginal lunules black; reniform mark 

 narrow, bordered with black, hardly excavated ; interior border 

 emarginate. Hind wings aeneous-cinereous ; fringe paler. Length 

 of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



h. Ceylon. Presented by K. Templeton, Esq. 

 c. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Genus ADRANA. 



Mas. Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis brevis. Palpi por- 

 recti, corapressi, lati, pilosi ; articulus 2us subtus densissime vesti- 

 tus ; 3us linearis, 2i triente brevior. Antennae dimidio basali 

 pectinatae, corporis dimidio non longiores. Abdomen lanceolatum, 

 fasciculis lateralibus, apice compressum, alas posticas dimidio 

 superans. Pedes validi, pilosi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus longissimis. 

 Alae sat angustae, vix denticulatae ; anlicae apud costara rectae, apice 

 subrotundatae, margine exteriore obliquo subconvexo. 



Male. Body rather stout. Proboscis short. Palpi porrect, 

 compressed, broad, pilose ; second joint very thickly clothed 

 beneath ; third linear, rounded at the tip, less than one-third of the 

 length of the second. Antennae moderately pectinated to a little 

 more than half their length, about half the length of the body. 

 Abdomen lanceolate, with slight tufts along each side, extending 



