408 UiPIDOPTERA. 



in both ; vein 8 separate from vein 7 in the hind wings. 

 Abdomen very slender, rather short. 



Genus 1. ORNEODES. 



Palpi distinctly showing the third joint; second joint 

 tufted ; fore wings having the plumes laid rather closely 

 together ; those of the hind wings more loose. Legs long 

 and rather slender. 



We have but one species. 



1. O. polydactyla, Huh. ; hexadactyla, Staml. Cat., 

 i. ? — Expanse ^ inch (11-17 mm.). Fore wings six-cleft to 

 near the base ; pale yellowish-brown with broad dark gre}-- 

 brown stripes crossing the divisions. Hind wings more 

 widelj- six-cleft, dotted with pale brown. 



Antennae of the male very slender, simple, brown ; palpi 

 slender, projecting, thickly tufted, brown outside, white 

 within ; third joint obliquely placed and pointed, dark 

 brown ; head and thorax grej'-brown dusted with black ; 

 abdomen rather flattened, pale brown. Fore wings divided 

 almost to the base into six narrow plumes laid rather closely 

 side by side ; the costa very straight and the hind margin 

 gently curved ; very pale yellowish-drab, the costal lobe 

 regularly spotted with brown ; from the fourth of these spots 

 a broad brown band crosses the wing, and from the sixth 

 another ; remainder of the wings clouded and dashed with 

 brown, in its outer half having numerous little brown 

 crescents and darker dots in the pale areas ; at the hind 

 margin a round black dot tips every lobe ; cilia pale brown- 

 ish-drab. Hind wings divided from the base into six lobes 

 — the whole forming an ojien fan-shape — glistening whitish- 

 drab, every lobe regularly dotted with dark brown in pale 

 crescents. Cilia of all the wings rather short, but extending 

 up both sides of the lobes, and very evenly placed, pale drab. 

 Legs long, shining yellowish-white with brown clouding. 

 Female similar. 



