LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 401 



three rows of black spots. Tarsi and anterior tibiae mostly black. 

 Fore wings with six very irregular and incomplete macular brown 

 bands ; second, third and fourth connected by a streak in the disk ; 

 fifth and sixth partly connected. Hind wings with two macular 

 brown bands. Length of the body 6 — 7 lines; of the wings 21 — 

 24 lines. 



a. East Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



b. North India. From Mr. L. James' collection. 



24. Leptosoma insulare. 



Alee anticce fusco-cinerece, fascia alba ; posticce albce margine fusco ; 

 singular um fimbria plagiatim alba ; abdomen albidum, linea 

 laterali lutea punctisque nigris. 



Leptosoma insulare, Boisd. Faune Ent. Mad. Bourb. et Maur. 84, 

 pi. 12, f. 1. 



Madagascar, Bourbon, Mauritius. 



Genus 39. PTEROTHYSANUS. 



Mas. Corpus gracile, breviusculum, sublineare, fere cylindri- 

 cum. Palpi porrecti, capite fere longiores ; articulus 3us minimus. 

 Antennae simplices. Abdomen alarum margines posticos vix attin- 

 gens. Pedes sat validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus duobus parvis 

 apicalibus. Alae latse, posticae apud marginem internum longissime 

 ciliatae ; venae inferiores quatuor. 



Male. Body slender, nearly cylindrical and linear, rather short. 

 Palpi porrect, full as long as the head ; third joiut very small. An- 

 tennas simple, hardly half the length of the body. Abdomen hardly 

 extending to the middle of the hind wings. Legs rather stout; 

 \ hind tibiae with two small apical spurs. Wings very broad, beset 

 I with long hairs ; hind wings ciliated about the inner border beneath 

 with extremely long hairs ; four inferior veins. 



1. Pterothysanus laticilia. 



Mas. Niger; caput, palpi, antenna basi et thorax antice rufa ; 

 abdomen albidum, apice luteum ; ala anticce. nigro-fusece albo 

 maculatce ; posticce albce fasciis tribus macularibus nigro-fus- 

 cis, intus longissime ciliatce. 



2 N 2 



