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CATALOGUE OF 
convex in front, almost angular at the tips, very slightly convex, 
and hardly oblique along the exterior border. 
Fcem. Corpus sat robustum. Palpi graciliores. Antenna sub- 
pectinate, thorace paullo longiores. Abdomen alas posticas 
triente superans. Ale longiuscule ; antice apud cos tarn plus 
convexe , margine exteriore plus obliquo. 
Female. Body rather stout. Palpi more slender than those of 
the male. Antennae very minutely pectinated, a little longer than 
the thorax. Abdomen extending for one-third of its length beyond 
the hind wings. Wings rather long. Fore wings more convex in 
front than those of the male, and more oblique along the exterior 
border. 
Obscure cervina ; ale antice nigro punctate. Mas. — Ale antice 
apud marginem exteriorem fusco nebulose , litura discali 
albida strigisque duabus angulosis transversis nigris. Fcem. 
—-Ale antice apud discum cinerascentes , fascia oblzqua cer- 
vina fusco marginata , litura discali fusca. 
Dull fawn-colour, pale beneath. Abdomen and hind wings 
palei than the thorax and the fore wings. JHale. — Fore wings 
clouded with brown along the exierior border, thinly flecked with 
black ; a w hitish mark in the disk, and two slender zigzag trans- 
verse black streaks. Female. — Paler than the male. Fore wings 
flecked with black; disk mostly gray ; this hue is interrupted by an 
oblique and irregular fawn-coloured band, which is bordered with 
dark brown ; discal mark dark brown. Length of the body 6—14 
lines ; of the wings 9 — 22 lines. 
a , b. Java. 
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Dasychira LEUCOPH JEA. 
Cristata ; ale fusee , antice striga lata albida , basi lineola nigra , 
puncto anguli postici albo. 
Phalaena leucophaea, Abbot and Smith, Nat. Hist. Lev . Ins. Georaia 
ii. 155, pi. 78. * ’ 
a. Georgia. From Mr. Milne’s collection. 
