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acute, exterior margin slightly oblique and angular in the middle ; cell more than 

 half the length ; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second 

 at one-sixth, trifid, third at one-sixth from base of second, and fourth at two-thirds 

 from base of third, fifth from end of cell and slightly touching third near its base ; 

 discocellular slightly concave, radials from close to each end ; middle median from 

 angle close to end of cell, lower at one-third ; submedian recurved : hindwing quad- 

 rate, apex convex, exterior margin angular in the middle ; cell two-fifths the length ; 

 two subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular outwardly-oblique, slender, slightly 

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

 at about one-fourth ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately stout, 

 palpi ascending, laxly squamose ; second joint reaching level of the eyes, third short, 

 one-fifth length of the second, blunt at the tip ; autennoe in male broadly bipectinated 

 to one-third the length, the branches densely ciliated ; setose in female ; legs slightly 

 pilose ; spurs long. 



Type, B. penetrata. 



EPISPARIS VARIALIS (Plate 175, Fig. \2,S)- 



Neviasca varialis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 7 (1858),,^ 5 . 

 Episparis signala, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 1032 (1867), (^. 

 Episparis Davallia, Felder et Rogenh. Nov. Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 120, f. 41 (1874), $ . 



Lilacine ochreous-browu : forewing with the disc and apex traversed by an 

 ochreous fascia ; crossed by an indistinct subbasal, and an antemedial outwardly 

 curved lilacine-white bordered brown line, and an undulated discal line, each line 

 dilated at the costal end, beyond which is a marginal row of chestnut-brown lunules, 

 the upper lunule being large and extending from the apex to the middle angle, the 

 lunules also being bordered within by a slender lilacine-white line ; a black punctiform 

 orbicular spot, and a large bilobate pure white reniform mark : hindwing with the 

 disc clouded with ochreous ; crossed by a brownish discal angular line, a lilacine- 

 white bordered slender brown submarginal line, and chestnut-brown marginal lunules, 

 which are inwardly bordered by a lilacine-white line. Cilia dark brown towards the 

 apex. Body, head, palpi, and fore tibite ochreous-brown ; middle and hind legs, and 

 tarsi, white, with brown speckles. 



Expanse Itij inch. ^^^ 



Family HYPENIDiE. 



Wings broad, delicate : forewing often with tufts of prominent scales. Antennaj 

 straight, furnished with cilite or with pubescent scales ; legs long ; palpi compressed, 

 generally long, alike in both sexes, porrect, and pilose. 



Larva cylindrical, elongated, moniliform, having, generally, only three pair of 

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