ii6 LEPIDOPTERA. 



We have three species, readily distinguished. 



A. Fore wings blunt, brown ; a black basal streak 



(7. hi'cvilinca. 



B. Fore wings dull drab or reddish-drab, with darker 



shades G. liUosa. 



C. Fore wings smooth, shining, yellowish- or reddish-drab, 



no markings G. phragmitidis. 



1. C. lutosa, Huh. — Expanse 1| to 2 inches. Fore wings 

 long, pointed, pale reddish-drab or whitish-drab ; nervures 

 clouded with darker ; a row of black dots beyond the 

 middle. Hind wings cloudy-white. Abdomen of female 

 very large. 



Antennfe of the male thick, simple, but densely ciliated 

 throughout with small tufts of delicate white bristles, 

 colour whitish-brown ; palpi short and small, narrowly 

 tufted, whitish-brown, shaded on the outside with smoky- 

 black ; head prominently tufted in front, drab tinged with 

 brown or reddish-brown ; thorax broad and robust, similarly 

 coloured though paler behind, smooth and glossy ; fascicles 

 white ; abdomen stout, pale drab, abundantly covered with 

 creamy-white hair scales ; lateral tufts very small ; anal 

 tufts dense but rather compressed, tinged with ochreous. 

 Fore wings thick and strong, rather long, pointed ; costa 

 gently rounded ; apex acutely angulated ; hind margin 

 rather hollowed beneath it, then straight to below the 

 middle, where it is rounded off; dorsal margin straight to 

 near the base, but ciliated, and the cilia curled up along the 

 basal third ; colour pale drab or reddish-drab, dusted with 

 black or brown along the median and subdorsal nervures, 

 and sometimes the subcostal ; also between the nervures of 

 the hind marginal region ; yet very commonly all this dust- 

 ing is obscure or even absent ; beyond the middle an oblique 

 and curved series of six or seven black dots on nervures 

 indicates the usual second line ; no other markings ; cilia 

 pale drab. Hind wings not large ; hind margin slightly 



