22 AMBLYPTILUS. 



Ahdomine alho, nigro striato. 



Tihiis et tarsi s posteriorihus alio et fusco annulatis. 



Head and palpi cinereous, dusted with white scales. 

 Antennae cinereous, faintly dotted with whitish 

 above. 



The thorax white, touched with cinereous above and 

 at the sides, with two black spots behind. 



Fore wings white, dusted with cinereous along" their 

 costal half before the fissure ; the costa fuscous, 

 dotted with white ; a blackish spot before the 

 middle of the wing touching the costal shade ; 

 another nearer to the base below it ; a blackish- 

 fuscous, triangular, costal patch before the fissure, 

 followed by a conspicuous white space, beyond 

 which is a fuscous shade, crossing both lobes, 

 divided by a white line running parallel to the 

 apical margin, on which the cilia are white, dotted 

 with some fuscous. The dorsal half of the wing- 

 is less shaded or dusted than the costal, and con- 

 tains two short, oblique, blackish dashes near the 

 middle, the second being followed by a straight 

 streak of brownish-fuscous scales running parallel 

 to the dorsal margin. The cilia on the dorsal 

 margin are white, with two distinct tooth-like 

 tufts of black scales ; the cilia within the fissure 

 are fuscous. 



Hind wings fuscous-brown, with cilia of all the lobes 

 the same colour, except on the dorsal margin of 

 the third, where they are white irrorated with 

 black scales along the basal half, and bearing a 



