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encompassing a pale cell streak ; the anterior portion of the medial area more or less 

 ochreous-white ; basal and lower medial area also black-speckled : hindwing with a 

 distinct rather large black cell spot ; a cinereous-wliite bordered black sinuous discal 

 and submarginal line, each with its bordering black-speckled ochreous fascia ; a 

 similar fascia also across the middle, and a broader submarginal and marginal 

 fascia. Abdomen with brown bands ; palpi and forelegs above dark brown. 



Female, With the basal and medial area more or less whitish ; more uniformly 

 black-speckled throughout ; the discal lines and fasciae being broken and partly 

 obliterated. 



Expanse 6 85, ? 3^ inches. 



Genus AMBLYCHIA. 

 Ambluchia, Guenee, Phal. i. p. 214 (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxl. p. 313. 



Wings large : forewing broad, triangular ; apex very acute, subfalcate, exterior 

 margin convex in the middle ; cell nearly half the length ; first subcostal at one- 

 fourth, second and third contiguous, third trifid, sixth from end of cell ; discocellular 

 slightly concave, radial from the middle ; the middle median close to end, lower at 

 fully half before the end : hindwing very broad, quadrate, extending much beyond 

 the abdomen ; exterior margin deeply sinuous above the middle ; cell two-fifths the 

 length ; first subcostal and middle median close to end of the cell ; discocellular 

 bent near the middle ; lower median at one-half before end of the cell. Body stout ; 

 abdomen smooth ; palpi obliquely ascending, very broad, compactly pilose, com- 

 pressed, extending half beyond the front, third joint extremely minute ; anteuua3 in 

 male with very long ciliated branches to one-third the tip, setaceous in female ; legs 

 long, smooth, hind tibifB thickened, spurs moderately long, slender. 



AMBLYCHIA TORRIDA (Plate 188, Fig. 2,, S). 

 Ambli/chia torrula, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 621. 



Colour lilacine ochreous-brown. Differs fi'om A. angeronaria in the forewing 

 both above and beneath having the transverse medial pale maculated band termi- 

 nating very broadly on the costa in the male, and in broad quadrate spots in the 

 female. On the underside the distinct subbasal curved dusky-band which crosses 

 both wings of A. angeronaria are obsolete, and the outer transverse lunular bands 

 are replaced by a uniform broad pale-brownish fascia. 



Expanse <? 31, ? 3| inches. 



Family EUSCHEMIDiE. 



AVings ample, thick, velvety : forewing prolonged apically : hindwing short, 



