LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 
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1. Allata penicillata. 
Mas. Cinereo-fusca ; palpi albo penicillati ; abdomen vitta dor - 
sail nigricante ; alee anticce nigro conspersce , plaga basali , 
linea exteriore flex a guttaque discali subquadrata nigricanti- 
bus ; posticce subvestilce , antice iridescentes. 
Male . Cinereous-brown, more cinereous beneath. Plume 
the palpi delicate, white, shining. Abdomen with a blackish dor- 
sal stripe ; hind borders of the segments pale cinereous. Fore wings 
black-speckled, with a blackish patch near the base, and with a bent 
exterior blackish line, of which the middle part is almost obsolete ; 
a blackish subquadrate dot in the fore part of the disk. Hind wings 
thinly clothed, iridescent in front ; fringe pale cinereous. Length 
of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 11 lines. 
Hindostan. In Mr. Saunders’ collection. 
Genus 58. VOLOBXLIS. 
Mas. Corpus sat robustum. Caput fasciculis duobus late- 
ralibus penicillatis. Proboscis obsoleta. Palpi crassi, lanceolati, 
oblique ascendentes, verticem superantes ; articulus 3us minimus. 
Antennae validae ; articulus lus incrassatus ; 2us dilatatus, longi- 
ovatus. Pedes longiusculi, sat validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus 
duobus apicalibus. Alae anticae angustae, elongatae; anticae vix 
acutae, costa vix convexa, margine exteriore vix obliquo. 
Male. Body moderately stout. Head with a fan-shaped tuft 
of hairs diverging from each side at the base of the palpi ; frontal 
tuft prominent. Proboscis distinct. Palpi thick, lanceolate, ob- 
liquely ascending, rising higher than the vertex; third joint acute, 
very minute. Antennae stout ; first joint incrassated ; second di- 
lated, elongate-oval. Hind legs rather long and stout ; hind tibiae 
with apical spurs only. Wings narrow, elongated. Fore wings 
hardly acute ; costa hardly convex ; exterior border slightly convex, 
hardly oblique. 
1. VoLOBILIS BIPLAGA. 
Mas, Rufescente-cervina ; alee subtus fusco-cinerece ; anticce di- 
midio basali nigro conspersce , plaga exteriore costali nigra 
elongata , lineis duahus dentatis pallide cinereis ; posticce 
obscure cinerece, fimbria pallida. 
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