412 LEPIDOPTERA HETEBOCERA. 



acuminatus, 2o quadruplo brevior. Antenna? filiformes, maris den- 

 sissime et latissime pectinatae, fcemince mediocriter pectinatae. Ab- 

 domen alarum margines posticos non attingens. Pedes gracillimi ; 

 tibiae postieae calcavibus duobus posticis minimis. Alae antics maris 

 angustae, \ongissimsd, fcemina? breviores et latiores ; venae superiores 

 quatuor, 3a trifurcata ; inferiores quatuor, la et 2a basi contiguae. 

 Alae posticae, maris praesertim, longae, angustae, apice versus atte- 

 nuatae. 



Histia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 198. 

 Dysphania, p., Hubn, Verz. Schmett. 175. 



Body slender, linear, cylindrical, rather long. Head convex, 

 but not conical in front. Palpi much shorter than the head ; third 

 joint pointed, about one-fourth of the length of the second. An- 

 tenna? filiform, very thickly and deeply pectinated in the male, 

 moderately pectinated in the female. Abdomen extending not near 

 so far as the hind wings. Legs very slender ; hind tibiae with two 

 extremely minute spurs. Fore wings very long and narrow in the 

 male, shorter and broader in the female ; four superior veins, third 

 tri furcate ; four inferior veins, first and second near together at the 

 base. Hind wings, in the male especially, long and narrow and at- 

 tenuated towards the tips. 



1. Histia flabellicornis. 



Nigra, rufo fasciata, subtus tufa nigro macula ta ; pedes fulvi ; 

 alee anticce nigrce cinereo strigatce ; posticce cyanece apice nigrce. 



Zygaena flabellicornis, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 163, 32 ; Mant. Ins. ii. 105, 



38; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 398, 40. 

 Papilio Khodope, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. 49, pi. 30, f. E. 

 Sphinx Zygaena flabelliformis, Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2396, 135. 

 Histia flabellicornis, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 198, 2015. 



Black. Body beneath red with black spots. Head red above. 

 Thorax with a red band. Abdomen with red bands which widen 

 towards the wholly red tip. Legs tawny. Fore wings black, with 

 gray streaks. Hind wings blue, with black tips. 



a. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



b. North China. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



c. ? Presented by Major-General Hardwicke. 



d. North India. From Sir. L. James' collection. 



e. North India. 



/. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



