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luteous with brown bands. Wings with a purplish cupreous tinge. 

 Fore wings thickly covered with luteous points, and adorned with a 

 row of subquadrate luteous spots along the costa, and with two lu- 

 teous dots at the tips. Hind wings with a broad luteous stripe which 

 widens from the base to beyond the middle, with a luteous spot at 

 each tip, and with luteous clots along the fore border and the inner 

 border; fringe pale luteous. Length of the body 3 lines; of the 

 wings 8 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by Major-General Hardwicke. 



3. PlTANE CONFERTA. 



Lutea; antennce nigra, maris sat late pectinatce ; abdomen maris 

 supra nigricans ; alee anticce nigricantes, fasciis quinque ob- 

 liquis sub macular ibus luteis ; posticoe dimidio apicali nigri- 

 c antes, 



Luteous. Palpi of the male mostly black beneath. Antennae 

 black, luteous at the base, rather deeply pectinated in the male; 

 branches curled, decreasing in length towards the tips. Thorax 

 with black dots. Abdomen of the male blackish above. Coxae and 

 tips of the tibiae and of the tarsi black. Fore wings blackish, with 

 five oblique luteous bands ; the first, second and fifth more or less 

 interrupted, the third and fourth zigzag. Hind wings black for 

 nearly half the length from the tips, including some apical luteous 

 spots beneath in the male and on both sides in the female. Length 

 of the body 3 — 4 lines; of the wings 11 — 14 lines. 



a, 6. Ceylon. Presented by It. Templeton, Esq. 



4. PlTANE ? MEDIASTINA. 



Mas. Nigra ; thoracis discus et abdomen apice lutea ; ales anticce 

 fascia clavata postmedia fasciisque septem albis ; posticce lutece 

 fascia marginibusque nigris. 



Dysauxes mediastina (Phalsena vera, Hypocrita sphingiformis), 

 Hiibn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. iii. 27, 253, f. 505, 506. 



Georgia. 



Genus 112. CISTHENE. 



Mas. Corpus sat breve, mediocriter validum. Palpi capite 

 multo breviores; articulus 3us conicus, acuminatus, 2i dimidio 



3 A 2 



