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lated postmedial line, followed by a prominent white-bordered diffused brown lunular 

 line, and a slender brown marginal line; a brown-speckled reniformmark : liindwing 

 with a similar medial, discal, and submarginal line. 

 Expanse -h inch. 



COEGATHA OMARIUSALIS (Plate 177, Fig. 7). 

 Bleptina Omariusalls, Walker, C;ital. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 871 (1859). 

 Female. Pale testaceous, minutely brown-speckled : forewing crossed by an 

 inwardly-curved subbasal pale bordered brown line, a similar almost straight ante- 

 medial hne, and an undulated postmedial line, followed by a pale denticulated sub- 

 marginal line, and a marginal black lunular line ; a large pale-lined reniform mark : 

 hindwing with a similar antemedial, medial, submarginal and marginal line, the two 

 latter with black points. Tip of palpi with a black band. 

 Expanse tts inch. 



COEGATHA EENALIS (Plate 177, Fia. 3). 

 Ochreous-white : forewing with reddish-ochreous speckled waved bands ; a dark 

 brown antemedial, medial, and a postmedial costal patch, beyond which is a reddish- 

 ochreous apical patch, the latter being marked with some subapical black spots, and 

 traversed by a marginal row of white-pointed black dentate spots ; an outwardly 

 oblique brown-lined recurved reniform mark: hindwing speckled with reddish- 

 ochreous, with two blackish-speckled streaks above anal angle, and a marginal row 

 of white-tipt black dentate spots. Abdomen with reddish-ochreous bands. 

 Expanse tV inch. 



Genus ILYRGIS. 

 Ihjrgis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 879 (1859). 

 AVings short, broad : forewing triangular, costa arched at the base, apex slightly 

 subfalcate, exterior margin moderately oblique, slightly convex in the middle ; cell 

 extending to half the length ; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the 

 cell, second from end of the cell, quadrifid ; discocellular bent outward near each 

 end, radials from the angles ; middle median at one-sixth before end of the cell, 

 lovrer at two-fifths; submedian sHghtly curved: hindwing short, exterior margin 

 very convex ; cell two-fifths the length ; two subcostals from end of cell ; discocellular 

 concave, radial from near lower end ; two upper medians from a footstalk one-fifth 

 beyond end of cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal vein 

 straight. Body moderately slender, squamous ; palpi ascending, compressed, second 

 joint rising to vertex, slightly curved, pubescent, third joint fusiform, about one- 

 fourth length of second ; antennse broadly bipectinated ; legs long, slender, smooth, 

 spurs long. 



