20 LEPIDOPTEKA. 



1. C. sparsata, Huh. — f]xpanse 1 inch. Fore wings 

 short and much rounded ; glossy dark umbreous with 

 rippled blackish lines and black dots toward the base and 

 the hind margin ; discal spot black. Hind wings scalloped 

 and crenulated behind, of the same colour. 



Antennfe of the male rather thick, simple, ciliated, dark 

 brown : palpi thickly tufted, black ; head dark brown dusted 

 with white ; thorax very similar, small and rounded ; abdo- 

 men brown, slender, but of even thickness ; lateral tufts 

 minute ; anal tuft short and very blunt. Fore wings short 

 and blunt ; costa gently rounded to beyond the middle, 

 thence strongly arched ; apex bluntly rounded ; hind margin 

 curved, very little oblique, but the curve running round to 

 the dorsal margin, on which it is continued; colour glossy 

 umbreous dusted with black ; basal line curved, obscurely 

 black, most marked upon the nervures; first line very 

 obscure, curved, duplicated, and consisting of a series of two 

 or three black dots on each nervure faintly connected by 

 black dusting, and enclosing an obscure white line ; second 

 line indistinct, indicated by a row of small black wedge- 

 shaped dots, in a curved series, on the nervures, followed by 

 a parallel similar row, and these closely succeeded by faint 

 clouds of white dusting ; immediately following is the sub- 

 terminal line, irregular and indented, formed of white atoms 

 and faintly edged on either side with black clouding on the 

 nervures ; above the anal angle this subterminal line forms a 

 more definite curved whitish streak ; costa spotted with 

 black, especially so at the origin of each line ; discal spot 

 black with a whitish edging, placed before the middle of the 

 wing, at the apex of the very short discal cell : extreme 

 hind margin edged with short thick black streaks ; cilia pale 

 umbreous, clouded with white. Hind wings short, rounded, 

 the hind margin scalloped, and having a deeper hollow just 

 below the apex ; umbreous, crossed by numerous rippled 

 whitish-brown lines, and near the dorsal margin by inter- 

 mediate black strigae : nervures dotted with black ; hind 



