244 I.F.PIDnPTERA 



(iciius 12. LYGRIS. 



Autfiiiui' sini|)le. sleudcr ; jmlpi rather projecting; liead 

 somewhat roughened ; thorax flatly crested at the back ; 

 abdomen short, pointed ; fore wings short and iimisiially 

 rounded, from expansion of the liind margin ; liind wings 

 broad and rounded, in the male furnished with a discal tuft. 

 Markings singularly irregular. 



We liave only one species. 



1. L. reticulata, Fnh. — E.xpanse 1 inch. Fore wings 

 verv l)rcin(l, white ; large black-l)rown basal and costal 

 blotches are cut up by curved white lines ; uervures clear 

 white. Hind wings white, shaded with grey. 



Antenna; of the male rather short, simple, ciliated, light 

 brown : palpi short and small, rich brown, tipped with white ; 

 face r.'itluT convex, light brown with wliite scales under the 

 bases of the antennse ; top of the head white with a central 

 brown spot ; neck-ridge brown, with white scales on its 

 front ; thorax rich chocolate-brown, striped down the 

 shoulder lappets and on each side of the middle portion with 

 white ; hinder area and its blunt tuft mottled with white ; 

 abdomen white, barred with brown ; tufts hardly noticeable. 

 l''ore wings short, and unusually broad, except that the base 

 is narrow ; costa strongly and regularly arched ; apex 

 rounded ; hind margin very fully rounded and expanded ; 

 dorsal margin slightly curved and a little jirotruded in the 

 middle ; black-brown and pale grey cut up in all directions 

 by white lines and stripes in a manner not easy to describe — 

 basal region to the first line a dark chocolate brown blotch 

 much rounded on the outside, divided by the basal line, 

 which is curved, pure wiiite ; median nervure also white 

 from the base : first line a narrow white stripe lying round 

 the curve of th(> liasal blotch and angulated outwardlv ; 

 immediately beyond this is a f^omewhat ]iarallel similar white 

 stripe, the two enclosing a narrow olive-brown space; these 



