PYRALID^. 345 



similar. Palpi shorter, second joint not keeled in front at the apex ; antennae 

 minutely pubescent, base of shaft curved, dilated, and with a subbasal conical point 

 in front. Body stout, abdomen rather short, smooth, anal tuft short, obtuse, tegulas 

 with very long and lax divergent hairs ; legs rather stout, spurs very slender, 

 imequal. 



CONDEGA OBSCURATA (Plate 183, Fig. 12). 



Male. Purplish-brown : forewing with an extremely indistinct blackish transverse 

 outwardly-curved nari'ow antemedial band, and an irregular postmedial band ; a spot in 

 middle of the cell, and a streak at tlie end : hindwing with a similar irregular discal 

 band. Cilia entirely brown. Tegulse with long lax divergent ochreous-brown hairs ; 

 abdomen cuprescent-brown, anal tuft blackish ; base of palpi and legs pale brownish- 

 ochreous. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Genus EBULEA. 



Ehulea, Guenee, in Doubleday's List of Brit. Lep. p. 14 (18.50); Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. Brit. 



Mus. p. 239 (1850); Guenee, Delt. et Tyral. p. 357 (1854); Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. Brit. 



Mus. p. 214 (1854). 

 Sitochroa (part), lliihner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 356. 



Forewing rather short, broad ; cell long, three-fifths the length ; first subcostal 

 at one-fifth before end of the cell, second trifid, fifth from the end ; discocellular bent 

 near the middle and lower end, radials from the angles ; middle median at one-ninth 

 before end of cell, lower at one-third ; submedian straight, with a slender lower 

 recurved branch; hindwing broad, exterior margin convex in the middle ; cell one- 

 third the length; two subcostals from beyond the end, upper partly joined to the 

 costal ; discocellular very oblique, concave, radial from lower end ; middle median 

 close to end, lower at one-third ; a straight submedian and two internal veins. Body 

 slender ; labial palpi porrect, long, rather broad in the middle, projecting two-thirds 

 beyond the head, pointed in front, laxly squamous, third joint concealed; maxillary 

 palpi distinct, short, truncate at the tip ; antennae submoniliform, minutely ciliated ; 

 legs long, smooth, spurs rather stout, unequal. 



Type, E. croceaHs. 



EBULEA CELATALIS. 



Boii/s celatalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 6.57 (1859). 



Pale ochreous-yellow; the costa of forewing and exterior borders darker coloured : 

 forewing crossed by an indistinct brownish-ochreous curved antemedial line, an 

 irregular discal denticulated line, a slight submarginal denticulated fascia, and a 

 lunule at end of the cell : hindwing with an indistinct irregular discal line, and 



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