38 LEPIDOPTERA. 



A". Fore wings yellow. 



B. Fore wings with an oblique grey-brown stripe running 



to the apex. A. gilvaria. 



B^. Fore wings with two transverse stripes, the second 



oblique. A. citraria. 



1. A. strigillaria, Huh. — Expanse, male lUnch, female 

 1^ to \\. All the wings greyish-white or brownish-white, 

 abundantly dusted with brown ; on each are three straight 

 transverse smoky-brown stripes, those of the fore wings 

 oblique. 



Autenni© of the male pectinated with oblique, solid, 

 ciliated teeth, brownish-white ; palpi short, chocolate-brown, 

 dusted with white ; head and thorax not very rough, white 

 abundantly dusted with brown, but the neck white ; abdo- 

 men long, slender, smooth, white dusted with brown, and in 

 the middle segments often banded with brown or black ; 

 lateral tufts minute ; anal tuft rather loose. Fore wings 

 elongated ; costa evenly and very slightly arched throughout ; 

 apex rather sharply angulated ; hind margin smoothly 

 rounded in a curve which attains the dorsal margin ; 

 greyish-white or brownish-white dusted over with dull pale 

 brown, sometimes rather thickly so : first, central and 

 second lines nearh' parallel very oblique, forming ill-defined 

 smoky-brown, almost straight stripes, the central a little 

 waved ; outside these, and lying near to the hind margin, is 

 very often a supplementary similar but paler stripe ; cilia 

 whitish-grey dappled with darker. Hind wings long and 

 also broad, i-ather squared at the anal angle ; hind margin 

 faintly crenulated and not strongly rounded ; similar in 

 colour and dusting to the fore wings, except that the basal 

 portion is often whiter ; transverse stripes similar, often 

 broader, not oblique, but the first placed very directly across 

 the middle of the wing, the second beyond it, equally 

 straight, but in a different direction, and the third more 

 cloudy and placed just beyond; cilia greyish-white. Female 



