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CATALOGUE OF 
rather beyond the hind wings. Legs slender, smooth ; spurs very 
long. Wings opaque, rather broad, alike in colour, without lines. 
Fore wings hardly acute; costa slightly convex; exterior border 
convex, moderately oblique. 
This genus, like Labanda , can hardly he classed under any of 
the established families of the Puralites. It bears a slight resem- 
blance to the Lithosiidce , and has some affinity to the Erebidee. 
1. PlNACIA MOLYBDiENALIS^i^^L^ J 
Plumbea ; abdomen apice subtusque flavum ; alee anticee guttis^ 
tribus discalibus nigris , 1 a interior e, 2 a Saque approximatis 
exterioribus. 
Pinacia Molybdsenalis (Pyralis geometriformis, Salia egregia), 
Hubn. Samml. Exot . Schmett. iii. 13, 218, 1. 435, 436. 
Batavia. Sarawak, Borneo. 
Page 285. 
Doththa mesenterialis. 
Var. Mas. Saturate rosea , robusta ; palpi breves , graciles , as- 
cendentes ; antennee pubescentes ; abdomen Jlavescens , alas 
postieas tonge super an s, lateribus basalibus fasciaque sub - 
apicali roseis, fasciculo agicali magno ; pedes graciles, glabri ; 
alee anticee punctis marginalibus lunulaque discali nigris , 
fascia lata jimbriaque apice flavis ; posticce flavee, basi apice - 
que roseis. 
Var . Male. Deep rose-colour, robust, pale beneath. Palpi 
short, slender, obliquely ascending, not rising near so high as the 
vertex. Antennae pubescent. Abdomen yellowish, extending far 
beyond the hind wings, rosy on each side at the base, and with 
a rosy subapical band ; apical tuft large, partly rosy. Legs slen- 
der, smooth. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings with the mar- 
ginal points black ; a black discal lunule adjoining the fore part of 
the outer side of a broad yellow band ; fringe yellow at the tips, 
which are somewhat rounded ; under side speckled with black. 
Hind wings yellow, rosy towards the base and at the tips. Length 
of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 
This and the following species have much resemblance to some 
