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antennae grey. The abdomen is entirely white, and the legs 

 greyish-white, ringed with blackish beneath. The fore-wings 

 are lead-coloured, with a tinge of brownish, and a few black 

 spaces. The two transverse lines are darker than the ground- 

 colour; the first is dentated, and the second consists partly of 

 indistinct lunules. Along the hind margin the surface is 

 almost black to below the stigmata. Both the orbicular and 

 reniform stigmata are indistinct, bordered with black and 

 white, and streaked with brown within. The former is oblique 

 and very long. The space between the stigmata is the 

 blackest part of the wing, and that below them the lightest. 



The Anomalous Moth. 



The claviform stigma is represented by a light streak. The 

 marginal area has a light brown shade, and two fine sagittate 

 spots near the apex. The fringes are unicolorous, long, and 

 somewhat dentated. The wings have a strong metallic gloss. 

 The hind-wings are white, suffused with brownish, with the 

 fringes of the same colour, long, and bordered by a brown line. 

 The larva feeds on grass. It is either greenish-yellow, with 

 white dorsal and sub-dorsal lines edged with darker green, and 

 a white spiracular line edged above with smoky or light brown, 

 or with two purplish-brown lines enclosing a yellow dorsal line, 

 a yellow sub-dorsal line, finely bordered with darker brown, and 

 a greyish-white spiracular stripe, edged above with smoky. In 

 both varieties the spiracles are black, those on the second and 

 twelfth segments being the largest. The pupa is short, ochre- 



