1 84 LEPlDOPTKnA. 



E. Three pale spots ou the disc of fore wings. 



B. xd iithiicalis. 

 E'-. Two pale spots on disc of fore wings. }!. x/nrhi/dalis. 



1. B. nubilalis, Unh.; lupulinalis, '///.: female 

 silacealis, Huh. — Expanse, male 1 inch, lemale 1 .[ inch. 

 Fore wings pale hrownisli-grey or olive-grey, with a faint 

 yellow-white discal spot and transverse stripe : hind wiugs of 

 the same colour, with a broad whitish band. Female larger. 

 Fore wings pale ochreons with browner markings. 



Antenna3 of the male threadlike, brown ; palpi slender, 

 porrected, yellow-brown; head of the same colour; thorax 

 grey-brown ; abdomen long and slender, dark gi-ey-brown, 

 each segment faintly edged with white. Fore wings rather 

 elongate; costa arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; bind 

 margin almost straight ; dull smoky grey-brown ; orbicular 

 and reniform stigmata obscurely darker, with a yellowish- 

 white cloud between them ; first line faintly indicated by a 

 whitish shade which bends suddenly outward and throws an 

 obscure whitish streak to the second line ; this last is cloudy 

 white, much rippled, broadened below the costa and again 

 above the dorsal margin ; cilia grey-brown. Hind wings 

 ample, rounded behind ; similar in colour to the fore wings ; 

 having a broad dull white cloudy band placed transversely 

 beyond the middle ; cilia dull white. Female decidedly 

 larger ; thorax and abdomen stouter ; fore wings ochreous- 

 yellow ; the first and second lines more definitelj^ shown, 

 slender and much indented, brown ; the enclosed middle area 

 clouded with red-brown ; the spot between the stigmata 

 distinctly yellow ; before the hind margin is a rippled 

 reddish-brown band, followed by a yellow marginal stripe. 

 Hind wings pale smoky brown with a very broad submarginal 

 pale yellow band, and yellowish-white cilia. 



Underside in both sexes an accurate copy of the upper, 

 .but the darker portion in still darker colouring. 

 Said to be on the wing in May, June and July. 



