rYRALIDJE. 35.5 



outwardlj^-oblique Tvaved antemedial white line, and an inwardly-oblique undulated 

 postmedial line ; a slight whitish orbicular and reniform mark ; cilia cinereous-white, 

 with a slight brown inner line. Thorax, head, palpi above, and legs brown-speckled ; 

 palpi beneath whitish ; abdomen cinereous. 

 Expanse 1% inch. 



SCOPAEIA MURIFICALIS. 

 Scoparia murificalis. Walker, Catal. Lej). Het. B. M. xix. p. 826 (1859). 



Whitish-cinereous. Forewing tliickly speckled with brown scales ; crossed by 

 an ill-defined antemedial dentated white-bordered black-speckled lino, and a similar 

 outwardly-curved postmedial denticulated line ; a blackish orbicular and reniform 

 mark, and a spot below the former; a marginal row of confluent spots; cilia 

 with alternate brown inner row of spots : hindwing and abdomen pale whitish- 

 cinereous. Thorax, head, and palpi brown-speckled ; fore and middle legs with 

 brown bands. 



Expanse tV inch. 



Genus HELLULA. 

 Hellula, Guenee, Belt, et Pyral. p. 415 (1854); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 813 (1859): 

 Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 351 (1863); Meyrick, Tr. Eiit. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 316. 

 Oehia (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek, Schmett. p. 362. 



Male. Forewing hardly elongate, triangular, exterior margin moderately oblique ; 

 cell very long, extending two-thirds the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-fourth 

 before end of the cell, third bifid, fifth from the end ; discocellular outwardly obhque, 

 slightly concave, radials from close to each end ; middle median from close to end 

 of cell, lower nearly one-third : hindwing somewhat broad ; costal vein tumid at the 

 base, much recurved ; cell two-fifths the length ; subcostals from the end ; disco- 

 cellular very obliquely concave, radial from extreme lower end ; two upper medians 

 from end of cell, lower at one-third. Body slender; labial palpi slightly ascending ; 

 second joint broadly quadrate, third joint short, very distinct, truncate ; maxillary 

 palpi minute ; antennce rather thick, filiform ; legs slender, spurs nearly equal. 



Type, H. undalis. 



HELLULA UNDALIS. 



Phalcena undalis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 226 (1794). 



Pyralis undalis, Hiibner, Pyral. 19, 7, pi. 14, f. 93 ; Treitscbke, Sch. Eiir. vii. p. 128; Dupoucbel, 



Lep. Fr. viii. p. 160, pi. 221, f. 1 ; H. Scba^ff. Eur. Sebmett. iv. p. 10, 1, pi. 8, f. 54. 

 Hellida undalis, Giieuee, Belt, et Pyral. p. 416 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 813. 

 Oebia undulalis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sebmett. p. 362 (1825-7). 

 Scojmria alconalis. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xi.^:. p. 827 (1859). 

 Scoparia optatusalis. Walker, id. p. 1018 (1859). 



Forewing pale brownish-ochreous ; crossed by a very slender subbasal, ante- 



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