152 LEPIDOPTERA. 



8. L, comma, L. — Expanse 1^ to If inch. Fore wings 

 pale drab, nervures white ; from the base is a conspicuous 

 deep black streak, followed by a brown one along the middle 

 of the wing, and several black streaks toward the hind 

 margin. Hind wings smoky-brown. 



Antenna of the male rather thick, most minutely ciliated, 

 light brown, paler at the base ; palpi short, upraised, densely 

 tufted, pale brown, apical joint very short and conical; the 

 erect hairs upon the eyes unusually dense and noticeable ; 

 back lashes black-brown ; head pale brown densely tufted 

 between the antennas ; ^thorax pale brown or drab ; collar 

 slenderly barred with purplish-brown ; fascicles whitish- 

 drab ; abdomen pale brown densely covered with drab hair- 

 scales on all the segments ; lateral tufts tinged with purplish- 

 drab ; anal tuft broad and having a raised central ridge, 

 drab tinged with fulvous. Tore wings blunt, not very 

 narrow; costa nearly straight; apex bluntly angulated ; hind 

 margin very little oblique and hardly curved except toward 

 the anal angle ; dorsal margin straight ; colour pale drab, 

 palest along the costal region quite from the base ; from the 

 middle of the base a conspicuous deep black streak lies along 

 the underside of the median nervure ; beyond in the discal 

 cell is a partially parallel reddish-brown longitudinal streak, 

 dusted with black ; in nearly every interval of the nervures 

 in the outer half of the wing is a black or black-brown streak 

 clouded along its eds-es with brown, those in the middle of 

 the hind margin being the longest and those above them 

 regularly shorter so as to produce an oblique bar of the 

 ground colour pointing toward the apex, its upper edge 

 defined by brown clouding ; the median nervure and its 

 branches are distinctly white, and form a white spot, half 

 clasping a black dot, where they divide at the end of the 

 discal cell; the other nervures are more obscurely white; 

 there is no indication of any transverse line and the dot just 

 mentioned forms the only suggestion of a stigma ; at the 

 base of the dorsal margin is an obscure prostrate brown 



