liead small, retractile ; living concealed either at tlic roots of plants or under low 

 herbage, or in stems. (Stainton.) 



Genus HYDR^CIA. 



Hydrmcia, Guouoe, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 2,37 (1S41) ; Diipont. Catal. Metb. V.av. Lep. p. 114 (18-M); 

 n. Schajff. Sch. Eur. ii. p. 220 (1845). 



Forewing elongated, rather broad, apex acute, exterior margin oblique, convex 

 hiudward ; cell extending three-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths 

 before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell, curved 

 upward and touching the third close to its base ; discocellular concave, radials from 

 the upper and near lower end; middle median from angle near end of the cell, 

 lower at one-fourth before the end ; submedian curved : hindwing short, apex rather 

 pointed, exterior margin very oblique ; cell broad, extending to half the wing ; two 

 subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial from below the middle ; 

 two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-tliird before the end ; submedian 

 and internal vein straight. Body stout; palpi porrect, laterally broad, laxly pilose 

 beneath, third joint short, thick; antenna? serrated, finely pectinated; legs thick, 

 compactly pilose, middle and hind tibia? spurred. 



Type, H. micacea. i 



HYDR^ECIA LAMPADIFERA. 

 Hydrmcia lampadifera. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. .x.\xii. p. 643 (1865). 



•' Male. Fawn colour : forewings with a very large brown pale-borderd curved 

 discal mark, which is concave towards the costa, and is there accompanied by a pale- 

 bordered brown dot ; submarginal fine straight, oblique, brown, diffuse on the inner 

 side, pale bordered on the outer side : hindwings cinereous. Abdomen and underside 

 testaceous. Palpi erect, applied close to the head, but not ascending to the vertex, 

 third ioint conical, not more than one-fourth the length of the second. 



" Expanse 14 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in Mr. B. L. Layard's Collection. 



Genus SASUNAGA. 

 Sasunaga, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 342; Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 105. 

 Forewing very narrow ; costa almost straight ; exterior margin obHque, convex, 

 waved ; posterior margin convex at the base ; costal vein extending two-thirds the 

 margin ; first subcostal branch emitted at two-thirds and second at one-fourth before 

 end of the cell, third branch one-third and fourth at one-half from below second, fifth 

 curving from end of the cell and free from the third ; upper radial from end of the 

 cell; discocellular obliquely concave, lower radial from near its middle; cell long, 



