466 SOCTUID^. 



above inner marp:in ; claviform black, with white streaks above and 

 beyond it ; cell filled in with black ; orbicular and reniform narrow, 

 •with brown centres and white annuli defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter inwardly oblique ; postmedial line 

 white, very oblique from costa to vein 6, tlien obliquely curved and 

 strongly angled inwards on vein 1, a series of dentate black marks 

 on its inner edge ; subterminal line white, running into an oblique 

 white stripe from apex extending to postmedial line, and indented 

 by prominent white streaks on veins 4 and 3, a series of black spots 

 on its iuner and outer sides, those towards costa on inner side 

 dentate ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia white. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, with the cilia white ; the underside grey 

 thickly irrorated with brown, a small black discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line on costal half. 



Hah. S. TiERRA DEL FuEGO, Uschuaia, type t J in Mus. Ham- 

 burg. Ea-j), 32 millim. 



Genus STRIGANIA, nov. 



Type, -S. Whophilns. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed in front with 

 long liair. the 3rd short, porrect ; irons smooth; eyes large, rounded, over- 

 hung by long cilia; iiead and thorax clothed vrith rough hair and scales; tibire 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base of 

 dorsum, but without crests. Fore wing with the terinen obliquely curved ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 

 from angle of cell ; 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base. 



Sect. I. Antennje of male strongly serrate and fasciculate. 



1813. Strigania lithophilus. 



HeliopJwhus lifhophihis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 119. 



S . Head ochreous, with some black hair at side ; thorax ochreous 

 tinged with fuscous, a black and white line near tips of tegulae 

 and black and white fascia on patagia ; abdomen ochreous, dorsally 



Fig. 13G. — Strigania lithophilus, cJ. \. 



tinged with fuscous, leaving pale segmental lines, ventrally irro- 

 rated with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous, the costal area irrorated 

 with fuscous, the cell and the area below and beyond its extremity 



