8 LEPIDOPTERA. 



slender, smooth ; fore wings blunt, trigonate, narrow at the 

 base ; hind wings rounded ; underside richly coloured, and in 

 the hind wings often handsomely inarbled. 



Larv^ cylindrical, not stout nor attenuated ; without con- 

 spicuous prominences. 



PuP^ in the earth. 



We have five species — readily distinguished. 



A. Sexes diverse. 



B. Male brown, female white, both with oblique black or 



brown bands. F. atomaria. 



W: Male black-brown with large white or yellow patches, 



female orange-brown. F. piniaria. 



A^. Sexes similar. 



C. Ground colour greyish-white with perpendicular black 



bands. F. carbonaria. 



C". Colour bright tawny with obscure red-brown bands. 



F. pindaHa. 

 C^. Rich orange, dotted and bordered with black. 



F. conspiciiaria. 



1. F. atomaria, L. — Expanse male 1 to 1| inch, female 

 ^ to 1 inch. Male pale ochreous, more or less abundantly 

 dusted with brown, and having on the fore wings three or four 

 irregular oblique cloudy-brown transverse stripes ; female 

 white with the dusting and stripes black or brown-black ; 

 cilia chequered. 



Antennas of the male pectinated almost to the tips with 

 solid oblique ciliated teeth, black-brown ; palpi small but 

 densely covered with rather long scales ; head rough, yellow- 

 brown ; thorax rough from raised scales and, with the 

 abdomen, black dusted with yellow ; lateral and aual tufts 

 small. Fore wings somewhat trigonate ; costa hardly arched 

 except a little at the base and apex ; the latter bluntly angu- 

 lated ; hind margin oblique and regularly curved ; dorsal 

 margin straight; colour dusky-ochreous dusted abundantly 



