PynALIDyE. 333 



CONOGETHES PUNCTIFERALIS. 



Astuni jninctiferalh, Guoiifc, Delt. et ]'yr;il. \>. 320 (18o4); Walker, Catal. Lep. Hot. B. JI. xviii. 



p. 548. 

 Botys punctiferalix, Lcdorer, Pyral. Wion. Eiit. Moiiat. vii. |i. liTo. 

 Conogethes pnnctiferalls, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loiul. 1884, p. 314. 

 As^twa Ersealis, Walker, Catal. Lap. Ilet. B. M. xix. p. 980 (18.J9). 

 Botijs Nicippealls, Walker, hi. p. 999 (1859). 

 Astura gxUtatalis, Walker, id. xxxiv. p. 1381 (1865). 



JMale and female. Yellowisli-ochreous : forewing with transverse purplish-black 

 basal and subbasal spots, an antemedial row of spots, a postmedial and a discal 

 zigzag- series of spots, and three medial submarginal spots ; a spot also near end of cell 

 and a lumale at the end : hindwing with a purplish-black spot at end of the cell, a 

 discal, and a submarginal zigzag series of spots. Thorax black spotted ; abdomen 

 with three dorsal rows of black spots, anal tuft in male black streaked ; palpi with 

 a brown or blackish band ; forelegs and tarsi with blackish bands. 



Expanse, ^ ? | to 1 inch. 



Genus DADESSA. 



Allied to Conorjethes (Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 314). Wings 

 comparatively longer; pattern of markings similar to the type {(J. punctlferalis, 

 Guen.). 



Male. Veins of forewing similar : hindwing with the cell longer and much 

 broader ; middle and lower median vein distorted, being slightly bent upward near 

 the base, and having a short glandular tuft of scales at their base on the upper side ; 

 the submedian and internal veins extend nearer to the median, ai-e curved upward 

 opposite to the bent portion of the medians, and also have similar glandular tufts of 

 short hairs. 



DADESSA EVAXALIS (Plate 183, Fig. 3, i ). 

 Botys Evaxalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xix. p. 995 (1859),^ ?. 

 Yellowish-ochreous : forewing with transverse purplish-black basal and sub- 

 basal spots, an antemedial macular hne, a postmedial and discal zigzag series of 

 almost continuous dentate spots, beyond which are three medial submarginal slender 

 spots ; a spot near end of the cell, and a streak at the end : hindwing Avith a 

 purplish-black spot at end of the cell, a discal zigzag series of spots, and a sub- 

 marginal series of slender spots, these markings being less defined in the female. 

 Male with a tuft of short ochreous hairy scales between the base of middle and 

 lower medians, and similar tufts on submedian and internal veins, the adjoining 

 black lower discal spots being also covered with irridescent cupreous lax scales. 

 Tliorax and basal segments of abdomen in male black spotted, anal tuft partlv 



