78 LEriDOl'TtkA. 



3. C. Verellus, /:"( //(/.. — Expanse % iucli (ll-1t> mm.). 

 Fore wiugs short and rather blunt ; pale brown with white 

 streaks from the base and beyond the middle, and black 

 streaks on uervures in the middle and along the hind 

 margin. Hind wings dull white. 



Antenna^ short, thick, simple, pale brown ; palpi long, 

 thick, straight and tapering, white above, brown below ; the 

 maxillary pair short and indistinct ; head white ; thorax 

 Ijrownish-white. browner on the shoulder lappets ; abdomen 

 silky-white. Fore wings short and blunt, rather narrow ; 

 costa gently arched ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind margin 

 oblique, hardly curved; anal angle obtuae; colour pale 

 yellow-brown, dusted between the nervures with black- 

 brown and black ; from the base a white dash runs halfway 

 along the costa, another more shortly on the median 

 nervure, and a third occupies great part of the dorsal 

 margin ; at the end of the discal cell is a soi-t of crescent of 

 black dusting ; beyond this, halfway to the anal angle, a 

 wedge-shaped white dash edged with a brown line ; this last 

 seems to represent a partial and broken second line, which 

 )>ecomes more distinct where it turns back to the costa 

 here are two or thj-ee oblique brown and white streaks ; a 

 white spot lies at the apex, and others along the hind 

 margin, which also is lined and dotted with black; cilia 

 shining daric brown with whitish dashes. Hind wings 

 white, with a faint smoky tinge ; cilia white. 



Underside of the fore wings dusk}' white, tinged with 

 brown toward the costa, and having dark brown cilia ; hind 

 wings white, body and legs whitish-brown. 



On the wing in July and August. 



Lak\a undescribed. It is said to feed in moss upon the 

 •branches of old apple, plum, and poplar trees. 



Pt'PA unknown. 



The moth is excessively rare in these Islauds and its 



