276 THE WHITE S ITS NAME. 



the outer edge is a rust red spot, and the outer half of all that part of the wing 

 which is back of this fourth band is of a darker brown color, becoming velvet black 

 at its anterior side next to the band. Halfway between the fourth band and the 

 hind edge, on the middle of the wing, an irregular row of black spots or transverse 

 streaks is more or less distinct. The hind wings are paler, and beneath are crossed 

 by a slightly waved dark brown line. 



This insect pertains to the same family with the handmaid 

 moth, described in the preceding pages, and to the genus Clostera, 

 which is characterised as having the scales upon the thorax 

 elevated into a crest, the wings entire at their hind edges, and 

 the antennae (fig. 4 a) short, curved and with two rows of 

 branches in both the sexes. The English species are popularly 

 named chocolate-tips, the dark spot at the tips of their fore wings 

 being of a chocolate brown hue. But in the species before us 

 that tint is so slight as to be scarcely obvious, and it will be better 

 distinguished by the name White-S, Clostera albosigma, this cha- 

 racter being in most individuals more conspicuous and vivid 

 than it appears in our figure of the species. 



