ACIDALIID.E—BRADYEPETES. 8i 



Genus 5. BRADYEPETES. 



Antennae of the male strongly pectinaied almost to the 

 tip ; palpi minute ; thorax small and with the abdomen 

 smooth and moderately slender ; fore wings sharply pointed 

 and retuse ; hind wings strongly angulated behind, almost 

 tailed. 



We have but one species ; quite unmistakeable from its 

 conspicuous, and beautiful, complete rosy central stripe. 



1. B. atnataria, Z. ; amata, Stand. Cat. — All the wings 

 yellowish-white, lightly dusted with grey ; cilia all distinctly 

 crimson ; an oblique crimson-purple central stripe runs 

 from the apex of each fore wing to the dorsal margin of the 

 hind. 



Antennas of the male strongly pectinated, nearly to the 

 tip, with long slender ciliated teeth, pale purple-red ; palpi 

 small and slender, light brown ; eyes leaden-black ; face 

 chocolate ; top of the head white ; neck -ridge reddish-brown ; 

 thorax and abdomen slender, whitish-drab faintly dusted 

 with brown ; anal tuft ochreous. Tore wings pointed, and 

 rather retuse ; costa regularly arched ; apex sharply angulated ; 

 hind margin a little hollowed beneath it, thence nearly straight 

 to the anal angle, which is well formed ; dorsal margin 

 straight ; colour very pale greyish-drab ; first line indistinct, 

 slender, curved, light brown ; second line equally slender, 

 sinuous, smoky-black, running into the apex of the wing ; 

 central stripe broad and conspicuous, very oblique, running 

 from the middle of the dorsal margin, in a slight curve, quite 

 into the apex of the wing, pink-brown or dull purple-pink, 

 faintly shaded off on the outer side ; discal spot dull black, 

 small and indistinct ; cilia bright pink, which also is often 

 shaded inwardly along the hind margin. Hind wings sharjily 

 angulated behind, the margin produced almost into a very 

 short tail ; colour as in the fore wings ; before the middle is 

 a conspicuous and strongly-marked pink-brown or puq^le- 



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