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the anal angle. Thorax, head, fore and middle legs purplish-cinereous, black scaled ; 

 palpi black, shghtly speckled with cinereous scales ; hindlegs ochreous-yellow. 



Expanse 1t% to \t^ inch. 



Larva elongated ; with 16 legs ; pale green ; head and hind part of the segments 



yellowish ; with several rows of small black raised spots ; head also with black spots ; 



anterior legs black ; middle and hindlegs olivaceous. Pupa thickish, reddish, with 



black bands. 



DICHROMIA PTJLLATA (Plate 176, Fig. 4). 



Forewing umber-brown, sparsely black speckled at the base ; with a broad 

 medial transverse quadrate patch of blackish brown extending to the submedian vein, 

 the patch containing one wbite dot within the cell in the male, and two in the female ; 

 the inner border of the patch is outwardly curved, and the outer border margined 

 by a wavy black line, which is continued to the posterior margin ; outer area of the 

 wing thickly speckled with greyish-white scales, which are most densely packed 

 along the border of the patch, at the apex, and bordering the marginal row of black 

 dentate spots ; below the apex is a curved blackish-brown streak, above which are 

 two black spots with white tips, the lower outer area also being traversed by two 

 rows of blackish lunules with greyish- white borders : hindwing dusky brown, with 

 the lower discal area white. Body, palpi, and legs dusky brown. 



Expanse \-h to liij inch. 



Genus BOMOLOCHA. 



Bomolocha, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 343 (1825-7) ; Stephens, Illust. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. App. 

 p. 416 (1835) ; Lederer, Noct. Eur. p. 214. 



Differs from typical Hypena (H. rostralis). Forewing comparatively shorter, 

 broader, and more triangular in shape ; scales on orbicular and reniform marks not 

 raised ; first subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, 

 fifth from end and joined to third for a short distance near its base ; middle median 

 at one-tentb, lower at two-fifths : hindwing not so broad as in H. rostralis, the 

 exterior margin being more regularly convex ; cell nearly half the length, of moderate 

 breath ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; two upper medians also from end of 

 the cell. Thorax more robust, laxly clothed; abdomen with dorsal crests; head 

 smaller ; head and frontal tuft laxly clothed ; palpi smaller, less robust, narrower, 

 clothed with longer, slender, and more laxly disposed hairy scales ; apical joint 

 horizontal ; femora fringed beneath ; tibise compactly pilose ; antenna stouter, setose. 



Type, B. crassalis. 



BOMOLOCHA VESTITA (Plate 176, Fig. 10). 

 Hypena rkombalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Hat. B. M. xvi. p. 56 (1858) nee Guenee. 



Forewing purplish-ferruginous, with a large ferruginous-black patch occupying 



