I4S LErinOPTERA. 



margin strongly curved, and below so oblique as to leave no 

 anal angle; colour whitish-grey, becoming white along the 

 dorsal margin ; the costa, nervures, and discal-cell all longi- 

 tudiually streaked with dark grey lines, the darkest line 

 being upon the subcostal nervure ; no transverse lines ; hind 

 margin dotted with black ; cilia white. Hind wings narrow 

 and running almost to a point at the apex ; silky smoky- 

 brown ; cilia concolorous. Female very similar, but larger, 

 often of double the size ; palpi visible, white, descending ; 

 hind wings whiter. 



Underside of the fore wings shining pale brownish-grey; 

 of the hind wings white or smoky white ; body pale brown ; 

 legs nearly white. 



Varying a little in the colour of the fore wings, from 

 brownish-grey to ashy-grey and to pale brown ; in that of the 

 hind wings from shining white to smoky brown. 



In the imago state in September and October, and possihhj 

 an earlier generation in July. 



L.\RVA practically undescribed. Mr. Buckler describes 

 the newly-hatched larva " pale creamy-whitish opaque 

 colour, having a pale shining yellowish-brown head and 

 dorsal plate," but beyond this stage does not appear to have 

 reared it. 



While this is still in manuscript, larva3 have been fur- 

 nished by Mr. C. W. Simmons, found by him in a dock 

 warehouse in East London ; with moths — one alive — which 

 he has reared from the same batch, " larva very sluggish, 

 tolerably plump but cylindrical ; the head shining brown, 

 well protected by stiff hairs ; dorsal plate broad, paler brown, 

 rather hairy ; anal plate similar, but small ; body segments 

 well defined, fatty white, rather shining, and thinl}' covered 

 with tufts of fine bristles which are small and white ; 

 spiracles small, black ; legs and prolegs semi-transparent, 

 white." 



In a tube or passage roughly made of morsels of broken 



