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LEPIDOPTERA. 



B-. Fore wings grey, unspotted, with yellow costal 

 stripe. 



C. The yellow stripe extending to the apex. 



L. complana. 



C^. The yellow stripe narrowed off before the apex. 



L. complanula. 



W. Fore wings greyish-white, unspotted. 



D. With slender yellow costal stripe. L. caniola. 

 D". Without costal stripe. L. pygmmola. 

 B'*. Fore wings rich shining-ochreous. L. aureola. 

 B^ Fore wings dull brownish-ochreous. L. helveola. 

 B''. All the wings smoky-black. L. rulyrkollis. 

 A?. Fore wings not very narrow. 



E. Fore wings shining-grey, L. griseola. 

 W. Fore wings shining-yellow. 



L. griseola, var. stramiiuola. 



The last is indicated here because of its very distinct 

 appearance, which long led to its being regarded as a separate 

 species. 



1. L. muscerda, Huh. — Expanse, IJ to IJ inch. Fore 

 wings narrow, purplish-grey with four or five black dots ; 

 hind wings yellowish-grey. 



Antennae slender, delicately fringed with two rows of fine 

 oblique bristles; light brown; head, thorax, and abdomen 

 fuscous ; fore wings long and narrow, with two or three 

 longitudinal creases or wrinkles lying between nervures, one 

 from below the base of the median nervure to the anal angle, 

 being the most deeply marked ; costa and hind margin 

 slightly curved, apex angulated, dorsal margin nearly 

 straight ; rather shining fuscous or pui-plish-grey, with a 

 broad, slightly paler stripe along the costa ; near the dorsal 

 margin, before the middle, are two small black dots placed 

 obliquely ; and near the costa, beyond the middle, three or 

 four rather larger black dots also placed obliquely, but in 



