1 82 LEPIDOPTERA. 



A. Fore wings shining olive-chestnut, with two transverse 

 silvery white stripes. H. argentula. 



A 2 . Fore wings rich olive brown ; a broad pale stripe along 

 the costa projects a finger into the middle area. H. uncana. 



1. H. argentula, Hub. ; Bankiana, Fab. — Expanse 

 f to 1 inch. Body slender ; fore wings soft olive-chestnut or 

 orange-brown, with two irregular, oblique, clear white trans- 

 verse stripes, and the hind margin streaked with white. 

 Hind wings brownish-white. 



Antennae of the male slender, simple, minutely ciliated, 

 pale brown, faintly barred at the base with white ; palpi 

 short and small, narrowly tufted, yellow-brown ; eyes reti- 

 culated, black ; head small, rather flatly scaled, whitish-brown; 

 thorax small and narrow, smooth, pale olive-brown, collar 

 edged at the back with white ; shoulder-lappets splashed with 

 the same, the scales at the back gathered into a small ridge- 

 like white tuft tipped with frosted black ; fascicles short, 

 white ; abdomen very slender, small, pale brown dusted with 

 white, lateral tufts rather spreading, anal tuft narrow, pale 

 brown. Fore wings short and broad, of thin texture ; costa 

 arched, especially so at the base ; apex bluntly angulated ; 

 hind margin faintly curved and hardly oblique, leaving the 

 anal angle distinct ; dorsal margin straight ; colour olive- 

 chestnut or pale orange-brown, very soft and shining ; before 

 the middle is a conspicuous white transverse stripe, edged 

 slenderly on each side with black, placed obliquely outwards 

 from the costa and produced inwards along that margin to 

 the base ; half-way down it is a small outward projection 

 occupying the usual position of a claviform stigma ; beyond 

 the middle is a second, equally conspicuous, white transverse 

 stripe almost parallel with the first, edged with black dots, 

 expanded on its inner edge above the middle so as to indicate 

 the place of the reniform stigma ; along the hind margin is a 

 straight white stripe, clouded with olive-yellow and dotted 

 with olive-black, which includes the cilia ; before the apex is 



