492 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



Female. Body thick, of moderate length. Palpi ascending, 

 hardly curved, nearly as long as the head ; second joint longer than 

 the first; third very minute, not more than one-eighth of the length 

 of the second. Proboscis short. Antenna? slender, setaceous, very 

 minutely setose beneath, more than half the length of the body. 

 Abdomen linear, cylindrical, extending for full one-third of its 

 length beyond the hind wings. Legs stout; hind tibiae with four 

 short spurs. Wings narrow, not long. Fore wings very slightly 

 convex in front, nearly conical towards the tips, oblique along the 

 apical border, obtusely angular behind, first, second and third inferior 

 veins contiguous at the base, fourth remote. 



L Melese postica. 



Cervina ; corpus subtus albidum ; palpi rosei, extusfusci ; abdomen 

 supra roseum ; pedes albidi ; alee anticce fusco triguttatce, 

 subtus posticceque rosece. 



Fawn-colour. Body whitish beneath. Palpi rose-colour, brown 

 31 the outside except at the base. Proboscis tawny. Abdomen 

 rose-colour above. Legs whitish ; coxae and femora somewhat rosy. 

 Fore wings with two brown dots in the disk near the base, and with 

 one beyond and nearer the fore border; under side rosy except to- 

 wards the tips. Hind wings rosy. Length of the body 5 lines ; of 

 the wings 13 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Genus 95. PEECOTE. 



Mas. Corpus validiusculum, longiusculum. Palpi arcuati, 

 ascendentes, capite non breviores ; articulus 3us gracilis, linearis, 

 2i quadrario non longior. Proboscis brevis. Antennae subpectinatae. 

 Abdomen alas posticas dimidio fere superans. Pedes sat robusti. 

 Alae angustae, non longse ; anticae ad costam rectae, apices versus 

 conicae, postice rotundatae non angulatae, venis la et 2a inferioribus 

 basi contiguis, 3a approximata, 4a remota. 



Male. Body rather thick and long. Palpi curved, ascending, 

 as long as the head ; third joint slender, linear, not more than one- 

 fourth of the length of the second. Proboscis short. Antennae mi- 

 nutely pectinated. Abdomen extending for nearly half its length 



