no I.EPIDOPTERA. 



C. The band orange-brown and blaek ; onter area creamy- 

 wliite. M. oallatii. 



C". The l>and grey-black, witb sharply angled outer edge 

 followed by a white stripe. M. vnawiulata. 



1. M. rubiginata, Srhijj.; bicolorata, Sfmid. Cat. — 

 Expanse J^ to IJ inch. Fore wings pure white ; basal patch 

 and a large costal blotch sometimes jirodiiced into a central 

 band, both brown ; and two soft liroad bluish-brown stripes 

 along the hind margin. Hind wings white with a pale grey 

 hind band. 



Antenna? of the male rather long, notched, ciliated, brown ; 

 palpi small, brown. tip]3ed and dusted with white ; eyes 

 bronzv-biown ; face and head brown mixed with white ; on 

 the neck is a strong sharp nmbreous ridge ; thorax slender. 

 sienna-l)rown. shaded with white; two slightly raised brown 

 tufts furni a sort of crest at the back ; abdomen very slender 

 and o'lossv, white ; lateral tufts distinct ; anal tuft broad 

 and sometimes e.xjianded, otherwise closed to a point. Fore 

 wings not verv broad, costa much arched; apex liluutly 

 au'nilated. almost rounded ; hind margin smoothly curved, 

 as also is, to some small extent, the dorsal margin; ground 

 colour pure clear white ; basal blotch cut off almost perpen- 

 dicularly and sharply defined, umbreous, rather mixed with 

 vellow-brown ; usual Hues imperceptible, the normally en- 

 closed area occu]ned towards the costa by a large irregularly 

 trigonate brown blotch which extends half way across the 

 wins, but in many sjiecimens is continued by a slender, 

 sometimes detached, brown stripe to the dorsal margin, thus 

 formin" a complete, or else imperfect, central band ; this 

 lilotch or band is often liroken into from the costa by small 

 pale orange-brown or white clouds, and contains a black 

 discalspot; along the hind margin is a bmad double series 

 of small grey or grey-brown clouds, forming a marginal 

 l)and. intersected by a rijipled white subterminal line; but 

 deeply blotched below the apex of tlie wing with smoky- 



