62 LEPIDOPTERA. 



13. E. nanata, llah. — Expanse | inch (18-20 mm.). 

 Fore wings long, ])rodnced at the tip, greyish-white with 

 several well-defined, very oblique, brown-grey or black-grey 

 transverse stripes ; a white spot is placed above the anal 

 angle. Hind wings greyish-white. 



Antennae of the male slender, simple, ciliated, dark-brown ; 

 palpi small, blunt, black-brown; eyes deep black; head and 

 thorax grey-brown ; abdomen similar, with extremely minute 

 black tufts along the dorsal ridge ; anal tuft compressed, 

 pale-grey. Fore wings narrow ; costa straight to beyond the 

 middle, thence arched ; apex rounded ; hind margin very 

 oblique, gently curved ; dorsal margin also a little rounded ; 

 colour greyish-white with a brown shading ; basal line 

 oblique, sharply angulated, black, followed by two somewhat 

 parallel greyer lines, and a third, more oblique, which turns 

 back so as to form an angle around the discal black spot ; 

 immediately beyond this angle is a group of small black costal 

 streaks, which extend to a rather broad and sharply angu- 

 lated white stripe faintly intersected with grey ; beyond this 

 the hind-mai'ginal region is grey-brown distinctly divided 

 into two stripes by a rippled white subterminal line ; in this 

 subterminal line, above the anal angle, is a more distinct 

 white ci'escent or V-spot ; and before the discal spot is, almost 

 always, a round white spot ; close to the extreme hind margin 

 is a row of black streaks, edged outside by a grey line ; cilia 

 grey, intersected and spotted with black. Hind wings rather 

 elongated but small, flatly rounded behind; pale smoky-grey 

 faintly bounded beyond the middle with darker, but down the 

 dorsal region more distinctly with alternate bars of dark grey 

 and white ; extreme hind margin edged with black streaks ; 

 cilia dark grey-brown, clouded with grey-black. Female 

 similar. 



Underside of the fore wings glossy smoky-brown ; costa 

 rather blackened, and a little barred with black ; discal spot 

 black. Hiad wings dusky white, dusted with black ; central 

 spot black, followed by two rows of cloudy black dots indi- 



