338 LEPIDOPTERA. 



between the antennge ; thorax rather flattened, loosely scaled, 

 jDale drab, the hinder scales drawn together into a small 

 oblique crest, the tufts of which are tipped with rusty black 

 and white ; fascicles whitish-brown ; abdomen pale drab, 

 dusted with brown ; a small fugitive crest on the second 

 segment; lateral and anal tufts small and obscure. Fore 

 wings rather sharply pointed ; costa very straight ; apex 

 suddenly angulated ; hind margin oblique and only very 

 slightly curved, but faintly hollowed close above the anal angle ; 

 dorsal margin straight to near the base, then rather widely 

 curved in ; colour pale drab or whity-brown ; basal line 

 indicated by two dark brown streaks ; first line slender, dark 

 brown, nearly perpendicular, and but slightly angulated ; 

 second line smooth, oblique, scarcely indented, dark brown ; 

 the central space between these two lines soft wainscot-brown 

 with the nervures white ; subterminal line imperceptible 

 except as forming the indented edge of a wainscot-brown 

 stripe which lies along the hind margin ; orbicular stigma 

 oblique, reniform almost lunate, both yellowish-drab, un- 

 margined ; on the costa are two or three black-brown dots ; 

 extreme hind margin edged with flattened triangular brown 

 dots ; cilia pale umbreous, prettily looped with brownish- 

 white. Hind wings not broad, white ; nervures and hind- 

 marginal line very faintly tinged with brown ; cilia white. 

 Female larger ; antennas threadlike ; body much stouter ; 

 otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings pale smoky-brown, dusted with 

 yellowish-white along the dorsal and hind margins, and on 

 the reniform stigma. Hind wings white, the nervures tinged 

 with pale brown, and a dusting of the same along the costal 

 region ; central spot small, lunate, dusky-brown. Body 

 whitey-brown ; legs and leg-tufts smoky-brown. 



On the wing in September. 



The larva and pupa appear to be quite unknown. 



In the Entomologists' Annual, 1855, Mr. H. T. Stainton 



