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Genus TARGALLA. 



Targalla, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1007 (18.;7). 

 Cri/assa, Walker, id. xv. p. 1745 (1858). 

 Penicillaria (part), Guenee. 



Forewing broader than in typical Penicillaria, the extci'ior margin scalloped, 

 angular in tho middle : hindwing broader. Venation similar. Palpi somewhat 

 smaller ; antennfe simple in male ; legs less pilose. 



Type, T. infida. 



TAE6ALLA INFIDA (Plate 151, Fig. 6, ^ , 6<7, larva). 



Targalla infida. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. ^NI. xiii. p. 1008 (1857). 

 Penicillaria ludatrix, Walker, id. xv. p. 1773 (1858). 



Greyish violaceous-brown : forewing with the basal half darker brown, crossed 

 by some indistinct black- speckled waved lines, the outer half of the wing hoary, and 

 crossed by two very indistinct discal blackish-speckled denticulated lines, and two 

 sinuous submarginal lines, the veins being lined with black and white streaks ; a 

 minute white orbicular spot, and narrow ferruginous reniform mark bordered by a 

 pale whitish line ; before the apex is a dark brown triangular costal spot bordered 

 by three white costal dots ; outer margin with a row of black points : hindwing 

 brown, cinereous towards the base, and with cinereous-white streaks from above the 

 anal angle, and blackish spots up the lower median and submedian veins. Cilia 

 violet-brown. Thorax and head speckled with black ; palpi blackish at the side ; 

 tarsi with blackish bands. 



Expanse 1 to H inch. 



Larva green, paler on the sides ; with a slender subdorsal whitish line and a 

 row of small lateral spots. Papa red, enclosed in a slight cocoon under portions of 

 leaves and excrement. 



TARGALLA SOLIDA. 



Penicillaria solida, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiil. p. 814 (1865). 

 " Male. Eeddish ; partly whitish beneath : forewings with a whitish straight 

 oblique middle band, which contains the reniform mark, and is diffuse on the outer 

 side, where it is bounded by the exterior line ; the latter is brown, curved, very 

 incomplete; submarginal line pale, denticulated, indistinct, partly bordered with 

 brown, forming the outer side of a costal brown triangular spot, which includes three 

 testaceous costal points ; marginal points black ; interior part with very indistinct 

 undulating cinereous lines ; reniform mark brown, very narrow, containing a testa- 

 ceous line : hindwing brownish-cinereous ; marginal festoon whitish. Palpi brown, 

 partly whitish; thorax crested; abdomen crested at the base, with some pale 



