220 LEPIDOFTEh'A. 



B'-. The rivulet broad, partially interrupted, obscurely 



divideil. E. alrhi-inillatn. 



W. The rivulet very narrow, angulated ; central band well 



marked. E. nn i/a.-iciata . 



A-. Fore wings wliite with darker transverse bands. 

 C. The bands grey-brown, rijipled, numerous, and very 



neat. E. alhu.latu. 



C-. The bauds brownish-oclireous, irregular, intermixed 



and rippled with white. E. ihcolorata. 



C^. The bands blackish-grey, well defined. E. incctala. 

 C*. The bauds dark grey, the costal portion of the central 



blue-black. E. hlnndiata. 



A'l Fore wings pale tawny with an umbreous band. 



E. faniata. 

 E. affinUata and E. alchcmilldta are much alike, but the 

 former is usually of nearly double the size of the latter, while 

 its rivulet is much narrower. 



1. E. afl&nitata, »sv<yy//. — Expanse 1 to \\ inch. Fore 

 wings dark umbreous with a meandering, brightly white, 

 neatly divided rivulet stripe beyond the middle, and beyond 

 it a fragment of a similar white stripe running to the costal 

 margin. Hind wings smoky-brown, with a l)roail whitish 

 band. 



Antenna^ of the male short, slender, simple, ciliated, dark 

 brown ; palpi short, umbreous; head and face whitish-brown, 

 abundantly dusted with dark l)rown ; neck-ridge and thorax 

 pale brown, thickly dusted with black-brown and umbreous; 

 abdomen slender, pale brown ; lateral and anal tufts small. 

 Fore wings rather blunt ; costa gently arched : apex rounded ; 

 liind margin regularly curved; dorsal margin a little so; 

 dark umbreous, obscurely dusted or faintly mottled with paler 

 brown ; basal line faintly visible, curved, deeper umbreous ; 

 first line hardly perce|)tible, of the same colour, erect and 

 gently curved ; second line placed but little beyond the 

 middle of the wing, erect, very sinuous, and much indented. 



