EBOSIID.E. 399 



end of the cell, and a curved discal fascia ; a slender short black line from tlie apex, 

 whicli is bordered inwardly by luteous ; hindwing with a narrow sinuous black- 

 bordered luteous discal line, and a black sinuous marginal line, both interrupted by 

 a longitudinal pale medial fascia ; two outwardly oblique black streaks on the 

 costa. 



Expanse nr to t'o inch. 



Taken at " Dickoyia" (Green). 



Has the habit of folding the forewings longitudinally when at rest. 



Genus DIRADES. 

 Dirades, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxxv. p. 1650 (1866). 



Wings small. Forewing narrow, elongated, slightly rounded at the apex, ex- 

 terior margin oblique, posterior margin concave towards the end; cell half the 

 length ; first, second, and third subcostals close together, first at nearly half before 

 end of the cell, third bifid near its end, fifth and sixth on a footstalk at one-third 

 beyond the cell ; discocellular slender, radial from near upper end ; middle median 

 at one-third, lower at two-thirds before end of the cell ; hindwing short, costa arched 

 at the base, fringed; exterior margin sinuous, angulated below apex and in the 

 middle ; cell half the length, disposed along middle of the wing ; two subcostals 

 from end of cell ; discocellular slender, radial from the middle ; two upper medians 

 from end of cell, lower at one-third. Body stout ; antenna short, curly, thick, 

 compressed ; palpi smooth, slender, rather short ; legs slender, smooth, hind tibi^ 

 slightly incrassated, spurs long, slender. 



Type, D. binotata. 



DIRADES BINOTATA (Plate 186, Fig. 7, ?). 

 Dirades binotata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. p. 1650 (1866). 



Dark cinereous, sparsely speckled with minute black scales : forewing with a 

 postmedial ferruginous-bordered cinereous line, which is curved inward and upward 

 on the middle of the disc ; below it is a similar coloured curved line, the inner border 

 of which is ferruginous and forms a dark patch ; a submarginal sinuous cinereous- 

 bordered black line, the space between it and the exterior margin being greyish- 

 brown : hindwing with a transverse curved slender antemedial ferruginous-bordered 

 cinereous line, and a more distinct waved discal line, beyond which is the submarginal 

 sinuous line with the space between it and outer margin greyish-brown ; the lower 

 basal and apical area thickly speckled with ferruginous. 



Expanse to inch. 



DIEADES CONIFERA (Plate 186, Fig. 8). 



Male. Cinereous ochreous-brown : forewing with an outwardly-oblique short 



