32 LEPIDOPTERA. 



1. G. canella, Huh. — ^Expanse | to 1 inch f21-2.j niin.^. 

 Fore wings whitish-drab or pale yellow-drab, dusted with 

 black and shaded with red ; three dark dots indicate the 

 first line and two black ones the discal spot. Hind wings 

 brownish-white. 



Antennas of the male simple, but the basal joint thickened 

 and elongated, bent and a little thickened beyond, pale 

 brown ; palpi large and bi-oad, rather porrected, and having 

 at the base expansive tufts of hairs, pale drab; head and 

 thorax both rather broad, yellow-drab ; abdomen a little 

 thickened, pale yellow-brown. Fore wings elongated, blunt ; 

 costa faintly hollowed in the middle, arched toward the 

 apex, which is very bluntly angulated ; hind margin slightly 

 rounded but hardly oblique ; colour whitish-drab or reddish- 

 drab, faintly dusted with black ; along the costa is usually a 

 broad stripe of white dusting, narrowed off at the base and 

 apex ; first line oblique, but onij- indicated by two, or some- 

 times three, black or brown dots upon nervures ; second line 

 very oblique, undulating but not indented, whitish drab 

 edged with pale salmon colour; discal spot indicated by two 

 small black dots in the white or drab area ; hind margin 

 faintly dotted with black; cilia greyish-white. Hind wings 

 not very ample, the hind margin but little rounded ; shining 

 smoky-white ; cilia yellowish-white. Female similar but 

 stouter ; the anteunaj threadlike ; the hind wings faintly 

 shaded with brown. 



Underside of the fore wings shining pale smoky-drab ; 

 hind wings shining white. Body and legs pale yellow- 

 brown. 



On the wing from June till August or September. 



]j.\RV.A cylindrical ; head slightly narrower than the second 

 segment, highly polished, grey, more or less marked with 

 intense black ; dorsal area of the body varying from pale 

 pea-green to dark green — and some of the darker larva? 

 having the cheeks, and part of the face, perfectly black ;. 



