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witli lateral tufts at the apex ; palpi porrect, stout, fusiform, laxly squamose beneath, 

 second joint extending half beyond the eyes, third joint thick, pointed ; antennae 

 bipectinated for half its length in male ; legs stout, pilose, spurs long. 

 Type, P. nugatrix. 



PENICILLARIA NUGATRIX. 



Penicillaria nngatrix, Gainee, Noct. ii. p. 303, pi. 14, fig. 7 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. 

 xii. p. 871. 



Dark purplish-ferruginous : forewing crossed by an indistinct subbasal, ante- 

 medial, and a postmedial ochreous-grey line with brighter ferruginous borders, the 

 sublmsal line very indistinct, the antemedial line curved outward, the postmedial line 

 irregularly recurving from the costa above the end of the cell, angulated outward 

 below the median, and terminating at the posterior angle; a whitish angular line 

 curves from before the apex to above middle of the posterior margin and thence to 

 the lower angle ; a dusky brown ochreous-grey bordered reniform spot : hindwing 

 white, with pui-plish-ferruginous marginal band, and an indistinct blackish spot at 

 end of the cell. Tarsi with white bands. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



PENICILLARIA JOCOSATRIX (Plate 151, Fig. S, 3 , 8a, larva). 

 Penicillaria jocosatrix, Gnenee, Noct. ii. p. 304 (1852) ; Walker, Cat.il. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 871. 



Dark purplish violet-brown : forewing with a transverse blackish subbasal and 

 a medial fascia, both bent outward below the cell and ending in a purplish-white 

 costal spot ; a blackish discal fascia which is darker across the disc and before the 

 apex, where its border is defined by an outward curved whitish line, the latter line 

 being continued and indented below the radial, from whence it is inwardly obUque 

 and waved on reaching the posterior margin ; a pale longitudinal streak extends from 

 the angle of tlie inner fascia to the angle of the outer, the exterior margin has a 

 slender white angular line continued from the curved subapical line ; a slight dark 

 reniform spot at end of the cell ; the transverse areas between the fascias all suffused 

 with purplish-grey : hindwing white, with a broad purplish violet-brown marginal 

 band, and a small indistinct blackish spot at end of the cell. Body, palpi, and legs 

 dark purplish violet-brown ; tarsi with narrow white bands. 



Expanse 1 to H inch. 



Larva green, with a sublateral darker shade ; a few fine short hairs from the 

 spiracles ; the segments speckled with small purple spots and a subdorsal row of 

 larger spots. Pupa dark purple-red. 



" Feeds on Terminalia Belerica, &c." (ThwaUcs.) 



