86 LEPIDOPTERA. 



\. A. emarginata X.— Expanse \ to \ inch. Hind 

 margin of the lore wings protruding, and twice angled in 

 the middle ; of the hind wings with minute projecting 

 points ; pale yellow-brown ; fore wings with two, hind with 

 one, slender red-brown transverse lines. 



Antennic of the male rather short and tliick, simple, 

 ciliated, light brown ; palpi very small, yellow-brown ; 

 tongue not concealed ; eyes deep black : face smooth, dark 

 chocolate : top of the head dusky white ; thorax and 

 abdomen very weak and slender, pale yellow-brown; anal 

 tuft rather long, compressed. Fore wings short and retuse : 

 costa arched throughout, apex bluntly angulated, yet rather 

 produced : hind margin beneath it concave, then filled out 

 and projecting in the middle into two small points or angles, 

 thence oblique to the anal angle ; dorsal margin nearly 

 straight ; colour pale yellow-brown or pale reddish-brown ; 

 first line oblique and rather curved, very slender, red-brown ; 

 second line of the same colour and equally slender, less 

 oblique but rather sinuous : discal spot a distinct red-brown 

 or black-brown dot ; central line only perceptible as a very- 

 faint reddish shade, often scarcely visible ; nervures beyond 

 the second line faintly indicated in red-brown ; hind margin 

 sharply edged by a red-brown or red-black line ; cilia yellow- 

 brown, dashed with red-brown. Hind wings elongated but 

 rather small, scalloped behind, and having, in the middle of 

 the hind margin, two small sharply projecting points; 

 yellow-brown ; central spot a black-brown dot ; before it is a 

 slender dusted reddish-brown shade ; beyond it a distinct 

 slender, curved, red-brown transverse line : a similar, but 

 more angulated, fine red-brown lino defines the hind 

 margin : cilia ])ale yellow-brown. l"'emale decidedly stouter, 

 the wing margins rather more sharply angulated, and having 

 the central shade of th(> fore wings greatly intensified and 

 broadened so as to form a broad, dusted, black-brown or 

 red-brown transverse cloud, lying across the discal sjiot, and 

 continued in equal intensity across the hind wings; area 



