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line. Body oclireous-brown above ; palpi ocbreous-bro^vn above, white beneath ; 

 legs whitish, with brown bands. 

 Expanse y^ to 1 inch. 



Genus CATACLYSTA. 



Catacli/sta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 363 (182o-7); Stephens, 111. Hatist. iv. p. 39 (1834); 

 H. Scbasffer, Scbmett. Eur. iv. p. 7 ; Guenee, Delt. et Pyr. p. 263 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. llet. 

 B. M. xvii. p. 435 ; Lederer, Pyr. Wieu. Mon. vii. p. 453. 



Wings of nearly equal length. Male : forewing long, narrow, apex somewhat 

 pointed, exterior margin almost erect ; cell two-thirds the length ; first and second 

 subcostals close to end of cell, second trifid, fifth from the end ; discocellular hardly 

 concave, radials from near the ends ; middle median close to end of cell, lower at 

 one-fourth ; submedian straight : hindwing long, somewhat triangular, apex rather 

 pointed, exterior margin short, very oblique ; cell half the length ; subcostals from 

 end of cell; upper bi-anch extending one-third its length along the costal ; disco- 

 cellular concave, radial from near lower end ; middle median close to end of cell, 

 lower at two-fifths. Body slender; labial palpi very slender, squamous, curved, 

 ascending, third joint filiform, acute, short; maxillary palpi minute; anteuuaj 

 submoniliform, very minutely pubescent, apical joints dilated at their ends ; legs 

 long, slender, smooth, spurs long, slender. 



Type, C. lemnalis. 



CATACLYSTA BLANDIALIS (Plate 179, Fig. 15). 

 Cataclysta blandiaUs, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 448 (1859). 



Ochreous-yellow : forewing with an inwardly-oblique subbasal silvery-white 

 bordered blackish band, a similar antemedial and an outwardly-oblique postmedial 

 band, both of the latter being joined on the costa, and the broad inner area densely 

 covered with white and black scales ; a short oblique silvery-white streak before the 

 apex, followed by a broken oblique submarginal silvery-grey band : hindwing with a 

 silvery-white subbasal band, and a broad discal patch, densely covered with white 

 and black scales ; the outer edge of the patch having a sinuous double line and a 

 border of four black marginal spots, each of the spots being centred by a metallic 

 purple-blue dot. Cilia brown, with a pale middle line. 



Expanse, ^ Tir> ? -nr inch. 



CATACLYSTA ORNATA (Plate 181, Fig. 11). 

 Male and female. Silky- white: forewing with the base of the costa cinereous- 

 brown ; a small black dentate costal spot beyond the middle ; an ochreous-yellow 

 band along middle of posterior margin, an outwardly-oblique short discal band 

 beyond the cell, and an inwardly-oblique outer discal band ; the two latter bands with 



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