396 LEPWOPTERA. 



though in certain varieties known under the names of 

 vulvivaga, Morrison, and /jr/diliiiea, Grote. 



5. A. connexa, BM., pabulatricula, Staud. Cat. — 

 Expanse 1^ inch. Foi'e wings greyish-white, with faint 

 brown mottlings, a black basal streak, and a black-brown 

 central band interrupted by the large white stigmata ; hind 

 wings smoky-brown. 



Antennge of the male slightly notched, minutely ciliated, 

 light brown ; palpi rather long, broadly tufted outwardly, 

 black brown, yellowish-white on the inner side, apical joint 

 long and tufted ; head thickly covered with erect scales, 

 conspicuously so in front and between the antennas, yel- 

 lowish-white with a curved brown bar across the face ; collar 

 yellowish-white, slenderly barred with black-brown and edged 

 with light brown ; shoulder-lappets black-brown with a yel- 

 low-brown blotch down the middle of each ; remainder of 

 thorax greyish-white, the top and back crests quite 

 noticeable, tipped with yellow-brown or chestnut ; fascicles 

 white; abdomen pale grey dusted with black, but obscured 

 by long greyish-white hair-scales ; on the dorsal ridge are 

 five oblique black or brown-black crests ; lateral and anal 

 tufts spreading. Fore wings narrow at the base, broader 

 behind ; costa gently curved ; apex bluntly angulated ; hind 

 margin slightly curved, rather oblique, more rounded toward 

 the anal angle ; dorsal margin very gently rounded ; colour 

 greyish-white ; from the middle of the base arises a distinct 

 black streak under the median nervure ; below it, close to 

 the base of the dorsal margin, is another lying in a dusky 

 cloud ; basal line only indicated by a cloudy black spot on 

 the costa ; first line black-brown, broken into streaks above 

 the middle, but forming a wide curve below, also preceded 

 by a parallel faint brown line, the two enclosing a slender 

 stripe of the white ground colour ; otherwise the basal space 

 below the median nervure is clouded with brown ; second 

 line oblique, curved, faintly black-bj-own except below the 



