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A. ochrata, Hr^rp. — ItlxpaDse f to J inch. Wholly 

 yellowish-tawDy ; wings rather short, pointed ; the fore with 

 three, and tlie hind with two, well-deiiued transverse red- 

 In'owu lines. 



Antenna^ of the male niinntely notched and thickly ciliated, 

 reddish-brown; paljii small, of the same colour; face convex, 

 dark chocolate; head and thorax tawnj-; abdomen slender, 

 pale tawny; latei-al tufts very small ; anal tuft rather loose. 

 Fore wings trigonate ; costa very gently arched ; a]iex bluntly 

 angulated ; hind margin gently rounded ; dorsal margin 

 straight, fully ciliated ; colour pale tawny ; first line curved 

 or bent, not very distinct, red-brown ; second line more 

 distinctly of the same colour, oblique and rather direct ; 

 central line rather thicker, still rod-brown, nearly parallel 

 with the second, often strongly marked and conspicuous ; 

 subterminal line barely visible as a series of faintly paler 

 dots between two almost ec[uallj- faint tawny-brown threads ; 

 cilia tawny. Hind wings rounded behind, Init with the anal 

 angle a little squared ; of the ground colour of the fore 

 wings, but a little paler along the costal edge; the central 

 and second lines of the fore wings continued in the same 

 colour and intensity on the hind, but more curved, and 

 extending quite to the dorsal margin, central S]iot brown, 

 l)laced just before the central line, subterminal threads just 

 perceptible ; cilia concolorous. I'Vmale similar, sometimes a 

 little more strongly marked ; its abdomen shorter, and an- 

 tennas devoid of bristles. 



Undersides of all the wings darker tawny, with two con- 

 spicuous undulating transverse umljreous lines, darker and 

 thiclver than those of the upper side. ]5ody and legs tawny. 



Apparently not variable, except in a small degree in the 

 distinctness of the transverse lines, and in the presence or 

 absence of the central dot of the hind wings. A greenish 

 gloss is said to be visible on newly emerged specimens, but 

 this almost immediately disappears. 



On the wing in July and August. 



