14^ LEPIDOPTERA. 



A*. Foiv willies glossy grey with darker grey bands. 



('. niuhisfrigaria. 



A". I'ore wings pale yellow-brown, with mnbreous or 



black-hrowu central band. C. ipiadrifasciaria. 



1. C. montanata, Scltiff. — H.xpanse ll to 1^ inch. Fore 

 wings ereainy-white, rippled behind with pale brown, and 

 having a conspicuous central nnibreous or fawn-coloured 

 band. Jlind wings white faintly lined with brown. 



Antennaj of the male pectinated with short slender ciliated 

 tei'tli, light brown ; ])alpi rather prominent, blunt, black- 

 brcjwn, dusted with white ; face and head creamy-white, the 

 former faintly barred with brown ; thorax rather rough, the 

 shoulder l:i])pets raised, creamy-white ; abdomen similar, with 

 a ])air of deep brown triangular s])ots on the back of each 

 Segment; lateral tufts well developed; anal tuft short, pale 

 ochreous. Fore wings elongated but broad ; costa regularly 

 arclied ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind and dorsal margins 

 gently curved, the latter decidedly ciliated ; colour creamy- 

 white; basal blotch composed of three consecutive slender 

 brown lines shaded with paler brown ; first line rather distant, 

 curved and a little indented ; second line placed not very far 

 beyotid t!ie middle, rather ujiright, irregular, throwing ont 

 two blunt angles above its middle, concave below ; these two 

 form the margins of a conspicuous central band, not very 

 wide, orange-brown, fawn-colour, nmbreous, or blackish- 

 bruwn, ver\- often containing a roughly triangular white 

 costal blotch which includes the black discal dot ; this central 

 band also is often rippleil with blacker or whiter lines parallel 

 with its maririns; before it the white (jround-colour is faintlv 

 shaded with j)ale brown or has a faint line of the same down 

 its middle; beyond it at some (listance is a broad faint 

 clouding of jiale brown extending to the hind margin, but 

 divided throughout by a much rippled white subterminal line; 

 cilia brownish-white intersected with brown. Hind wings 

 white ; central spot placed rather near the base, black, very 



