HEBMINIIDyE. 239 



EELIA FIGURATA. 



Male. Forewing greyish oclireous-white ; crossed by a basal, autemedial, post- 

 medial, and a submarginal black-speckled band, each band dilated at the costal end, 

 the two inner bands also partially broken in crossing the cell, the middle band 

 extending broadly and longitudinally across the end of the cell and there enclosing 

 a whitish limule, below which the band is slender and sinuous ; the discal band is 

 also sinuous from its costal end ; along the extei'ior margin is a row of black dentate 

 spots : hindwing brownish speckled, and with a sinuous cluster of blackish speckles 

 above the anal angle ; a blackish marginal lunular line. Body greyish ochreous- 

 white, abdomen brown speckled ; thorax with a black-speckled collar ; palpi at the 

 sides and legs also speckled with dark brown. 



Expanse IJ inch. 



Genus BERTULA. 

 Berhda, Walker, Cata). Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 162 (1858). 



Forewing elongated, rather broad, apex pointed, exterior margin slightly convex, 

 hardly oblique ; cell extending beyond half the length ; first subcostal emitted at 

 two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, fifth from end and touching 

 the third near its base ; discocellular convex, slender, radials from slight angle at 

 each end ; middle median from close to end of cell, lower at two-fifths ; submedian 

 curved from the base : hindwing broad, exterior margin convexly angular beyond 

 the middle ; cell nearly half the length ; two subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular 

 slender, deeply concave, radial from below the middle ; two upper medians from end 

 of cell, lower at one-third ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately 

 stout ; palpi in the male curved upward over the head, stout, reaching hind part of 

 the thorax, compressed, laxly squamose, third joint truncate at the tip and furnished 

 with a long dense tuft beneath, which rests on the thorax ; palpi in female shorter, 

 second joint more laxly clothed and fringed above, third joint slender, lanceolate, 

 tufted above in the middle ; antennae stout, bicihated with long lashes, the lashes 

 being shorter and finer in the female ; legs slender, fore tibiae densely and compactly 

 clothed in male, middle and hind legs compactly squamose, spurs long. 



Type, B. abjudicalis. 



BERTULA ABJUDICALIS. 



Berhda ahjudlcalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xvi. p. 163 (1858), ^. 

 Bocana lumidalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 176 (I85S), 9. 



Purplish greyish-brown : fijrewing crossed by a short pale subbasal streak, an 

 ochreous-brown broad inwardly-oblique medial band, the inner edge of the band 

 being straight, and the outer edge in the male bent abruptly inward to half its 

 width below the cell, and in the female is slightly waved; both the inner and outer 



