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ILATTIA CEPHUSALIS (Plate 146, Fio. 4,^?, 4r,, $). 

 Ilattia ceph II. •.all's, Walker, Catal. Lop. Ilet. 15. JI. xvi. p. 208 (18o8). 

 Miana innrnata. Walker, kl. xxxii. p. (i77 (1865). 

 Pcrigea leuconpila, Walker, id. xxxii. p. 683, ?. 



Forewing vinous-brown, grey speckled ; crossed by indistinct basal, suljbasal, 

 discal, and submarginal bkck denticulated lines, which are bordered with greyish- 

 w^hite speckles ; a marginal row of minute white-pointed black dots ; i-cniforni nioio 

 or less distinct, with the lower part grey speckled in the male and pale ochreous 

 in the female ; male with a rounded tympanistic depression near base of the cell : 

 hindwing dark cinereous-brown ; cilia pale cinereous-broAvn. Body vinous-brown ; 

 abdomen paler ; thorax grey speckled ; palpi and legs pale brownish-ochreous. 



Expanse 1% to 1 inch. 



Genus APAMEA. 

 Apamen, Ochsenlieimei', Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 75 (1816); Samouelle, Eat. U. C'o:iip. p. 2.31 (1819). 



Male : forewing elongated, costa almost straight, apex pointed, exterior margin 

 oblique, convex, scalloped ; cell extending to three-fifths the wing, narrow ; first 

 subcostal emitted at more than one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fourth, 

 trifid, fifth from end of the cell and touching third near its base ; discocellular deeply 

 concave, radials from upper and near lower end ; middle median from angle near end 

 of the cell, lower at one-tliird before the end ; submedian recurved : hindwing short, 

 broad, apex convex, exterior margin oblique, slightly scalloped ; cell extending to 

 half the wing; two subcostals from end of the cell; discocellular deeply bent in the 

 middle, radial from near the lower end ; two upper medians from end of the cell, 

 lower at about one-fourth before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. 

 Body moderately stout ; thorax stout, woolly, abdomen dorsally carinated and slightly 

 crested ; palpi porrect, second joint extending beyond the front, laxly pilose, third 

 joint short, thick, clavate, squamose ; antennae ciliated ; legs stout, femora and tibia? 

 thickly clothed, middle and hind tibiee spurred. (A. hasilinea.) 



APAMEA PANNOSA (Plate 147, Fig. 1,9). 

 Apaiiu'ii paniiosa, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. 1881, p. 34.5. 

 Forewing dark ferruginous-brown in male, blackish-brown in female ; crossed 

 by a black-bordered pale ochreous zigzag sinuous subbasal line, an antemedial and a 

 discal line, and a lunular submarginal line, the last ending in a large pale ochreous 

 patch at the apex ; a marginal row of black dentate spots ; interciliary line also pale 

 ochreous ; a pale ochreous patch below the base of the cell and a diffused patch at 

 the posterior angle ; orbicular and reniform marks black lined and with pale ochreous 

 inner border, the centre streaked with ferruginous-brown : hindwing, and abdomen, 



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