P YRALIDjE—A GL OSS a. 279 



Genus 3. AGLOSSA, 



Antennae simple, yet ciliated so thickly as to seem almost 

 pectinated; palpi pointed, tufted below; tongue abortive; 

 head smoothed down in front ; thorax loosely scaled ; abdo- 

 men tapering ; fore wings blunt, elongate-trigonate, with the 

 discal cell short ; hind wings broad, cross-bar angulated ; 

 legs not very long, the front tibite thickened. 



We have two species, at once separable by the colour of 

 their hind wings, which in A. pmgimialis are pale smoky- 

 brown, in A. cu2n-ealis shining white. 



1. A. pinguinalis, L. — Expanse 1 to li inch. Fore 

 wings rather broad and blunt ; pale grey-brown dusted and 

 spotted with black. Hind wings pale smoky brown. Whole 

 surface of a greasy appearance. 



Antennae of the male thickly ciliated with distinct bristles, 

 almost resembling pectinations, blackish-brown ; palpi slender, 

 porrected, brown ; head pale brown, finely streaked with 

 darker ; thorax pale brown, the collar and shoulder-lappets 

 edged with black ; abdomen tapering, shining grey-brown. 

 Fore wings rather ample ; costa arched beyond the middle ; 

 apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin smoothly curved ; sur- 

 face shining with a greasy gloss, pale umbreous or pale 

 grey-brown, thickly dusted with black atoms ; first line 

 rather erect, much angulated and clouded, or broken up into 

 clouded black spots ; the basal space also clouded with black ; 

 second line black, much angulated and bowed out in the 

 middle, spotted with black at all the angles, and followed by 

 a more obscure parallel series of cloudj' spots ; discal spot 

 black ; hind margin dotted with black ; cilia grey-brown. 

 Hind wings very broad, rounded behind ; pale smoky brown 

 dusted with black ; hind margin edged with black cloudy 

 dots, cilia smoky brown. Female very similar but much 

 larger, the antenna simple, and abdomen stouter but more 

 pointed. 



