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5. C sagittata, Fah. — Expanse I to 1 ] inch. Fore 

 wings soft fiuvn-Cdloni'. basal hlotcli, and central band witli 

 its long external point, dull black margined with white, 

 llind wings smoky-white. Cilia all sjjotted. 



Antenna? of the male simple, rather short, ciliated, brown, 

 whitened at the back ; palpi short, blunt, black ; eyes bronzy- 

 lirown ; face black, dusted on the lower portion with brown 

 and white ; top of the head white, clouded with pale brown ; 

 neck-ridge and thorax smooth, pale fawn-colour, the latter 

 broadly and bluntly crested at the back, and having under 

 the crest a black transverse bar ; abdomen very short and 

 blunt, pale brown, with three or four dorsal black dots which 

 carry minute erected tufts of scales ; lateral tufts small, 

 l)laced ou a ridge ; anal tuft short and wide. Fore wings 

 moderately broad, the costa almost straight to near the apex, 

 where it is somewhat arched ; apex very bluntly augulated, 

 almost rounded ; hind margin smoothly and gently curved ; 

 dorsal margin faintly so ; delicate smooth satiny fawn-colour ; 

 close to the base is a broad erect black transverse stripe, 

 almost a blotch, edged outwardly with white ; first line 

 very much curved outwards, regularly but minutely inden- 

 ted, black, edged on the inner side by a white line, which is 

 faintly black-margined ; second line also black, placed only 

 just beyond the middle of the wing, perpendicular from the 

 costa, then curved out into a very long pointed projection in 

 the middle of the wing, returning in a long indented curve 

 to the dorsal margin, and outwardly bordered by a slender 

 black-margined white line ; the space between the two lines 

 forms a rather narrow central dull black band of (juite un- 

 usual shape, from its even middle projection ; from the point 

 of this a white cloud runs into the hind margin, the fawn 

 ground colour being thereby divided into two large softly- 

 shaded blotches through which runs an obscure white sub- 

 terminal line, most distinct at its extremities ; cilia brownish- 

 white, distinctly chequered with dark brown, llind wings 

 rather small, rounded behind, white, fainth' shaded with 



