ij6 LEPIDOPTERA. 



1. G. mellonella, Z. ; cereana, L. — Expanse 1.J to li 

 inch. Thorax and abdomen stout ; fore wings evenly broad 

 but elongated and sharply retuse, with hollow hind margin and 

 prominent anal angle ; male brownish-drab with second line 

 and dorsal margin red-brown; female purple-brown with small 

 yellow clouds. Hind wings smoky white or smoky brown. 



Antenna3 of the male simple, slender, red-brown, the basal 

 joint tufted ; palpi short, concealed under a thick broad 

 thatch, or ridge of scales, in front of the head ; this last is 

 smoothed forward, brownish-drab ; thorax broad and thick, 

 pale brown ; abdomen stout and short yet tapering, brown. 

 Fore wings elongated but evenly broad ; costa decidedly 

 arched ; apex bluntly rounded ; hind margin hollowed, but 

 above the anal angle filled out and prominent ; dorsal margin 

 rather fall ; colour brownish drab ; along the middle of the 

 costa is a curved chocolate line, and beyond it the nervures 

 and the apical portion are streaked with chocolate; the 

 dorsal area, one-third across the wing, is occupied by 

 numerous lines, broken into short streaks, of rich chocolate, 

 which thicken near the margin, and also enclose toward the 

 middle a row of curiously undulating raised tufts of scales ; 

 the second line is distinctly noticeable, as a series of short 

 chocolate streaks, placed rather far back, and a very much 

 fainter curved line of the same is just visible in the middle; 

 cilia drab dashed with chocolate. Hind wings rather narrow, 

 ilatly rounded behind, smoky brown, often paler at the base ; 

 cilia brownish-white. Female larger, the palpi longer, the 

 hind margin of the fore wings scarcely excavated, almost 

 perpendicular; colour very dark purple-red, with paler 

 clouds toward the dorsal region ; cilia dark purple-brown. 

 Hind wings brownish-white, with brown margins and white 

 cilia. 



Undersides of all the wings pale brown with a curved 

 transverse stripe of darker brown before the hind margin ; 

 of the female fore wings purple-brown, hind wings white 

 with the stripe less distinct. 



