i62 LEPIDOPTERA. 



a common angle ; median nervure devoid of long scales^ on 

 the upper side ; v. S springing from v. 7. 



Genus 1. ODONTIA. 



Antenna^ simple ; ])alpi pointed, porrected ; tongue absent; 

 thorax rough with large raised scales; fore wings blunt, 

 having a distinct tuft of projecting scales on the dorsal 

 margin; hind wings broad, the cross-bar angulated ; legs 

 stout, not long nor tufted. 



1. O. dentalis, ^ickiff. — Expanse 1 to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings pale yellow-brown bordered with white dashes and 

 mottled with black arrow-heads ; hind wings dull white, with 

 grey -brown nervures and stripes ; brown in the female. 



Antenmi3 of the male simple, finely ciliated, dull yellow ; 

 palpi porrected, slender, pointed, and, with the head and 

 thorax, dull pale ochreous; abdomen rather slender, of the 

 same colour. Fore wings trigonate ; costa nearly straight ; 

 apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin gently curved ; dorsal 

 margin embellished near the base with a large projecting 

 tuft of long loose scales, mixed pale ochreous and brown ; 

 wing otherwise pale ochreous, the nervures edged with 

 brown ; in the middle is a transverse black-brown line 

 angulated into long points which project like rays, but 

 not attaining the costa ; beyond the discal cell is a similar 

 series — almost a bunch — of long points ; in both cases these 

 are clouded broadly outside with pale brown to near the hind 

 margin ; cilia long, whitish ochreous ■ deeply crenulated, the 

 points all dashed with dark brown. Hind wings broad but 

 rather pointed, the hind margin straightened ; dusky white; 

 nervures and hind margin shaded with brown, and having a 

 broad middle transverse shade ; cilia white. Female rather 

 darker, and having the hind wings much suSused with 

 brown. 



Underside of the fore wings dull brown ; the dorsal margin 

 pale yellow ; cilia of the same colour, dusted with brown ; 



