ORTHOSIlty.'E. 3,5 



hindwing short ; exterior margin oblique, waved ; two subcostals from a short dis- 

 tance beyond end of the cell ; discocellular bent in tlie middle, radial from below the 

 middle; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-fourth before the end; 

 submedian and internal vein nearly straight. Body stout, laxly clothed ; palpi pilose 

 beneath, third joint cylindrical, half length of second ; anteuua) finely ciliated ; legs 

 stout, spurred. 

 {G. Auijur.) 



GRAPHIPHORA FRONTALIS (Plate 148, Fig. 3). 



Forewiug deep purplish-brown ; with a black dot at base of the wing, one near 

 base of cell, and two below the cell ; an indistinct blackish denticulated discal duplex 

 line with lengthened grey-spotted points, followed by a nearly straight submarginal 

 pale whitish slender line; orbicular mark defined by a black dot, reniform mark with 

 indistinct pale whitish outer line and blackish lower half ; all the markings indistinctly 

 bordered by purplish chalybeate-grey; cilia pale reddish-brown: hindwing and 

 abdomen cinereous-brown. Thorax purplish-brown ; head and palpi cinereous- white ; 

 side of palpi, and legs above with dark purplish-brown bands. 



Expanse I5 inch. 



Family ORTHOSIIDJE. 



Imago of moderate size : forewings more or less pointed at the apex ; abdomen 

 often depressed, not crested. Larva cyhndric, velvety; feeds on trees or low shrubs, 

 and concealed during the day. Pupa subterranean, enclosed in a cocoon of earth or 

 silk. (Staiuton.) 



Genus ARAMUNA. 

 Forewing short, broad, triangular ; costa straight, apex somewhat acute, exterior 

 margin long, oblique, posterior margin slightly convex ; first subcostal emitted at one- 

 half before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, the third thrown off at one-sixth 

 from base of second and the fourth at two-thirds from base of the third, fifth from 

 end of the cell and very slightly touching the third near its base; cell broad, 

 extending to half the wing ; discocellular almost erect, slightly bent near lower end, 

 radials from upper end and lower angle; middle median at one-eighth and lower at 

 nearly one-third before end of the cell ; submedian straight, disposed at equal distance 

 between median and posterior margin : hindwing very short, quadrate, with a large 

 oval glandular patch of dense woolly scales occupying the middle area between costal 

 and median veins, the apex and exterior border also laxly clothed with hairy scales ; 

 the costal, subcostal, and median vein distorted, the costal vein curving along upper 

 end of the patch, two subcostal branches from end of the cell ; discocellular oblique, 



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