300 AUG. R. QUOTE. 



jected obliquely forward; 3d joint prominent, porrected, closely scaled, 

 held at nearly right angles with 2d. Legs moderate, middle tibiae 

 with terminal, and hind tibiae with middle and terminal pairs of un. 

 equal, rather blunt and weak spurs. Wings ample; anterior pair 

 straight along costal edge, with acute apices and medially exerted on ex- 

 ternal margin ; hind wings full and rounded, a little medially exerted 

 on external margin, with longer fringed and folded internal margin. 

 Fore wings 12-veined ; cell open, 3, 4 and 5 approximate at base, 5 

 not independent but joined to the nervure a little within (or nearer 

 the base of the wing) the origin of 4, opposite the origin of 3. An 

 accessory cell from the lower angulation of which 6 is thrown off on 

 the external margin ; 7 and 8 near together at base from outer ex- 

 tremity of discal cell, divaricating; 8 to apex, 9 out of 8 to costa, 10 

 out of upper margin of accessary cell near 8, 11 out of nervure at 

 basal third. Hind wings 8-veined, 3 and 4 together; 5 removed, not 

 independent, arising from a weak cross vein joining the nervure; cell 

 open, 6 and 7 divaricate from one point opposite 5. 



In the body parts and subangular wings with resemblances to Pan- 

 grapta, this is one of the genera lower than Drasteria, preparing us for 

 the deltoidous type of the family. The ornamentation is continuous 

 on the upper surface of both wings in darker lines and shades. The 

 first species is the type of the genus. The abdomen does not exceed 

 the anal angle of hind wings. 



Spargaloma sexpnnctata, Groic— % 9 . — Dark violet-grey with 

 smoky-brown lines and shades. At base the fore wings have double irregular 

 perpendicular transverse browu lines, not denned nor contrasting with the 

 even violet-grey ground color which extends unbroken to the middle of the 

 median space, there margined evenly obliquely by a dense smoky-hrown shade 

 which fills the median space outwardly, beyond the m. shade, and obscures 

 the reniform spot. Orbicular a minute dot on the cell not always perceivable. 

 Transverse posterior line dentate and irregular, inconspicuous. Subterminal 

 line distinctive, geminate, with whitish included shade; the component lines 

 divaricate at costa and enclosing a subtriangular brown shade, margined by 

 whitish scales at costa, and on the interspaces below this are three small sub- 

 triangular coal-black spots or marks, very evident, resting on the inner com- 

 ponent line of the subterminal, while a very few black scales appear opposite 

 each mark beyond the line. Externally the ground color of the wing is a 

 little paler than basally and a fine broken terminal line (continued on the 

 secondaries) is interspaceally evident. The concolorous hind wings are mostly 

 smoky-brown from the base to the continued subterminal geminate line with 

 its included pale shade, beyond this the terminal space is concolorous with 

 that of the primaries. The transverse posterior line and the inner marginal 



