102 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Ueuus 1. Nemeobius. 



Auteuiia3 slender, with a short broad club. Fore wings 

 with straight margins, and slightly rounded apex. Wings 

 blackish-browu, with tawny markings. 



1. N. Lucina, L. — Expanse, \\ inch. Small — blackish- 

 brown, chequered with tawny spots. 



Male, fore wings with the base bi-oadly blackish-browu 

 dusted with reddish, the nervures and two indented trans- 

 verse bands black, and the interspaces bright reddish-tawny ; 

 costa reddish-brown, with two yellowish streaks, parallel to 

 it, beyond the middle ; hind margin blackish, preceded by a 

 row of black dots. Hind wings blackish-brown, nervures 

 blacker, three reddish-tawny spots in the middle, and a 

 double row of crescentic spots of the same colour along the 

 hind margin. Ciha white, ^vith broad blackish dashes. 

 Female similar, with the tawny spots larger and slightly 

 paler. Under side of fore wings fulvous, paler in the middle, 

 with dark nervures, and tawny suffusion at the base and 

 along the costa ; a partial band of black spots in the middle, 

 another beyond, and dots of the same before the hind mar- 

 gin ; apical portion with a few whitish spots. Hind wings 

 reddish tawny with black nervures and two transverse bands 

 of silvery-white spots, one near the base, the other in the 

 middle ; and a row of black spots in fulvous rings before the 

 hind margin. Ciha white, sharply chequered with dark brown. 



Antennae black, with white rings. 



Not usually variable. Dr. Mason, however, has a beautiful 

 female aberration in which the usually dark spaces, bands, 

 and nervures are of an exceedingly pale brown, suffused with 

 fulvous so as to be comparatively indistinct ; Mr. vSydney 

 Webb has a male in which the basal portion of the fore wings 

 is pale, and the first transverse dark band absent. 



End of May and June. 



Larva dingy olive colour ; dorsal line blackish or very dark 



