﻿1796 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Cinereous, paler beneath, where the wings have a broad 

 marginal blackish band. Head ferruginous, deep black hindward. 

 Palpi blackish, with cinereous tips. Thorax speckled with brown, 

 deep black in front. Fore wings thickly speckled with brown, with 

 a deep black spot near the base and joining the interior border, on 

 approaching which it is narrower ; marginal lunules blackish ; reni- 

 form mark partly bordered with deep black. Hind wings cinereous, 

 with broad brownish borders. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the 

 wings 16 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



TOXOCAMPA COSTIMACULA. 



a. Silhet. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



Genus SELAMBINA. 



Ma&. Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi sat graciles, 

 subpilosi, oblique ascendentes ; articulus 3us lanceolatus, 2i dimi- 

 dio longior. Antennae subpectinatse, corporis dimidio vix longiores. 

 Abdomen lineare, alas posticas paullo superans. Pedes graciles, fere 

 nudi ; tibiae posticae calcaribuslongissimis. Alae mediocres; anticae 

 apud costam vix convexae, apice subrotundatae, margine exteriore 

 subflexo. 



Male. Body slender. Proboscis short. Palpi rather slender, 

 slightly pilose, obliquely ascending; third joint lanceolate, more 

 than half the length of the second. Antennae minutely pectinated, 

 about half the length of the body. Abdomen linear, extending a 

 little beyond the hind wings; apical tuft small. Legs slender, al- 

 most bare; hind tibiae with very long spurs. Wings moderately 

 broad. Fore wings hardly convex along the costa, slightly rounded^ 

 at the tips ; exterior border very slightly bent in the middle. 



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1. Selambina trajiciens. 



Mas. Rufescente-cervina ; abdomen pallidum, suhsericeum; alee 

 anticce lineis duahus ohliquis albis, la recta, 2a subarcuata, 

 vitta discali e strigis tribus ai^genteo-albis, striga 3a dilatata 

 ramum costam versus emittente ; posticcB pallide cinerece^rU' 

 fescente subfasciatce, macula discali obscuriore. 



Male. Keddish f^^wn-colour, pale cinereous beneath. Abdo- 

 men somewhat silky, paler than the thorax. Fore wings with two 



