418 LEPIDOFTERA HETIiROCERA.. 



Phalsena Geometra Panthona, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 68, pi. 322, 

 f. C. 



a, b. Hong- Kong-. Presented by J. C. Bowriug, Esq. 



c. Silbet. From the Rev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



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



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



8. CVCLOSIA FULIGINOSA. 



Nigro-cijanea, sulfas albida ; antenna cyanece ; thorax antice rufo 

 bifasciatus ; alee nigro-fuscae, fasciis duabus macularibus 

 albidis, venis cyaneis ; postlccc ex parte flaws, 



Male. Blackish blue, whitish beneath. Antenna; blue. Thorax 

 with two red bands in front. Legs whitish beneath. Wings blackish 

 brown, with two macular whitish bands which are most conspicuous 

 beneath, one in the middle, the other subapical ; veins mostly blue. 

 Hind wings yellow along the inner border above and over most of 

 the surface beneath excepting the fore border and the tips. Length 

 of the body 7J lines ; of the wings 25 lines. 



a, b. Silhet. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Genus 48. ERASMIA. 





Corpus gracile, subcylindrieum. Caput parvum, palpis parvis. 

 Proboscis spiralis, elongata. Antennae maris bipectinaUe, pectinibus 

 mediocribus. Abe anticse oblonga?, subovales, integrse, venis posticis 

 paullo arcuatis, areola discali clausa; posticae subrotundatae, venis 

 posticis arcuatis. Pedes graciles. 



Erasmia, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xviii. 446. Westw. Arcana 

 Ent. 18. 



Body rather long and slender, nearly linear and cylindrical. 

 Head conical and very prominent in front. Palpi very much shorter 

 than the head ; third joint conical, less than half the length of the 

 second. Antennae filiform, closely pectinated. Abdomen extending 

 nearly or quite as far as the hind wings. Legs slender ; hind tibia? 

 with two small apical spurs. Wings ample ; veins rather curved 

 towards the tips ; four inferior veins ; first and second united for 

 some distance from the base. 



