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indistinct subbasal line, and a submarginal denticulated line with pale ochreous 

 points ; a pale spot also at end of the cell. Tips of hind femora, of each tibia, tarsal 

 joints, and tip of palpi -with pale ochreous bands. 

 Expanse Ij inch. 



HADENNIA PRUNOSA (Plate 177, Fig. S). 



Dark purphsh-brown : forewing- crossed by an inwardly-oblique slender subbasal, 

 a broad medial, and a discal recurved blackish fascia, the latter outwardly bordered 

 by ochreous speckles ; a similar short black fascia also extends from the latter to the 

 apex ; a marginal row of ochreous dots ; a prominent ochreous-white orbicular dot 

 and a reniform spot : hindwing with a similar black medial and discal fascia, and 

 marginal ochreous dots. Body, palpi, and legs dark purplish-bi-own. 



Expanse l-f^j inch. 



Genus HYDRILLODES. 



Hydrillocles, Guenee, Deltoides et Pyialites, p. 65 (1854); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. 

 p. 118. 



Forewing elongated, narrow; exterior margin very shghtly oblique and convex ; 

 cell short, extending to two-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted from close to 

 end of the cell, second from the end, quadrifid; discocellular extremely slender, 

 slightly concave; upper radial from upper end, lower radial and the two upper 

 medians on a footstalk beyond lower end of the cell, lower median from close to end 

 of the cell ; submedian recurved : hindwing rather broad, exterior margin oblique, 

 convex in the middle ; cell extending nearly half the length ; two subcostals on a 

 footstalk one-third beyond the cell ; discocellular extremely slender, concave, radial 

 from close to lower end ; two upper medians on a footstalk one-fifth beyond the cell, 

 lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body 

 moderately stout, smooth ; palpi curved upward over the head ; second joint ensi- 

 form, very laxly squamose in front, reaching above the vertex, third joint half-length 

 of the second, acicular; antennas serrated and finely ciliated in male, setose in female; 

 legs long, squamose, fore tibias not tufted, hind spurs very long. 



Tijjje, H. lentalis. 



HYDRILLODES LENTALIS (Pl.^te 177, Fig. U). 



Hydrillodes lentalis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyr. p. 66, pi. 5, f. 3 (1854); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. 



B. M. xvi. p. 118. 

 Catada captiosalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 210 (1858), $ . 



Male and female. Forewing dull ochreous-brown, the basal area brighter 

 ochreous in some specimens ; with a transverse very indistinct pale-bordered brown 

 basal, antemedial, and a postmedial line, followed by a submarginal ochreous denti- 

 culated line, and a marginal row of blackish points ; a dark brown lunate mark at 

 end of the cell : hindwing cinereous-brown, with traces of a darker lunate mark at 



