344 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Epalxiphora axenana. Fig. 8. 



25 mm. Forelegs dark-fuscous, ringed ochreous at joints ; 

 head above fuscous mixed with grey ; thorax dark or light 

 fuscous, tufts pitchy. Abdomen ochreous (anal segments tes- 

 taceous) or wholly yellowish-grey. Anterior wings curved from 

 base, apex falcate, outer margin obliquely sinuate. Basal area 

 grey broadly mixed with dark fuscous dots to J costa, whence 

 edged with indefinite dark fuscous transverse line to middle of 

 wing, then with inner tooth and outward curve to J inner margin 

 it includes the marginal lunar mark, which is completed by a 

 faint curve and dot ; towards the inner margin the basal area 

 shades to brownish - grey. Outer area dark -fuscous towards 

 costa, reddish-brown or delicate violet hue towards inner margin ; 

 an elongate transverse costal spot of either colour at \ runs 

 into discal black line, sometimes dividing it into two angular 

 spots, in front a yellow or buff tip obliquely elongates to apex. 

 Cilia ochreous with dark fuscous bars and basal line. Posterior 

 wings grey or lighter with dark posterior mottling, cilia white 

 with very fine dark-grey basal line. 



Six 3 3 , others not retained : except in ground-colour and 

 presence or absence of the violet hue there is no variation. 



Epalixiphora axenana, $ . Fig. 1. 



27-30 mm. Head and thorax usually of same colour as 

 ground-colour of wings, tufts pitchy only when some of the wing- 

 markings are so. Abdomen yellowish - white. Anterior wings : 

 Costa elbowed at J, thence slightly curved to apex, outer margin 

 obliquely sinuate, apex falcate. Ground-colour very pale-yellowish 

 (bone-colour), at base mixed with dark dots, near inner margin 

 suffused with greenish-fuscous. At \ costa a dark olive-green 

 transverse elongate spot to discal cell, below is a paler spot, 

 and an indefinite longitudinal line angulated or curved to inner 

 margin. At ^ costa a transverse greenish fuscous spot curved 

 outward unites with a patch of similar colour covering the whole 

 anal area, extending from before middle of wing longitudinally 

 with irregular outline to near apex, its transverse outline deeply 

 broken by the ground-colour forming the curve of lunar mark 

 at \ inner margin. Nervures posteriorly thinly fuscous. A di- 

 lated sinuate costal streak of greenish-brown colour from \ costa 

 to near apex breaks the ground-colour into a longitudinal pat- 

 tern. Cilia pale reddish-grey barred with fuscous. Posterior 

 wings : Apex more acute than 3 , margin somewhat sinuate. 

 Light-grey with posterior yellow tint, dark longitudinal mottling, 

 cilia whitish, basal line fuscous. 



I have selected this as the type form, it being the most abund- 

 ant, though there is considerable colour - variation, chiefly as 

 follows : — 



