DREPANULID^. 7 J 



very round, smooth, dull brown, with the collar yellowish ; 

 abdomen slender and short, brown, tinged with yellow on 

 each side and having minute projecting lateral tufts of 

 yellow scales. Fore wings with the costa slighty arched at 

 the base, strongly so beyond the middle ; apex produced to a 

 blunt curved point, almost hooked ; hind margin beneath it 

 much hollowed, then straight, the anal angle being rather 

 squared ; dorsal margin straight ; colour golden-brown, much 

 irrorated, especially toward the base, with minute transverse 

 blackish streaks of atoms ; first transverse line slightly 

 angulated, second rising perpendicularly from the dorsal 

 margin, then bent toward the apex, but returning to the costal 

 maiigin, both yellow, very slender and not margined ; between 

 these lines, at the ends of the divided discal cell, are two 

 ill-defined black spots ; hind margin, below the tip, clouded 

 with black ; cilia deep red-brown. Hind wings rather long, 

 rounded from the costal margin but with the anal angle 

 squared ; golden-brown, with two very slender yellow trans- 

 verse lines, the first near the base, the second in the middle 

 of the wing ; between them are two very faintly black spots ; 

 cilia dense, golden-brown. Female larger, with threadlike 

 antennae ; fore wings slightly paler, with the lines and dots 

 rather more distinct, and the dark shade below the apex 

 broader and blacker ; hind wings very pale fulvous, or dull 

 yellow, tinged with brown along the dorsal margin, where are 

 slight indications of the two transverse lines and of a third 

 near the anal angle, these lines seeming to divide the brown 

 shade into faint transverse bands. In both sexes there is, in 

 some specimens, a faint indication of a scalloped line of dark 

 shades edged with yellowish near the hind margin of fore or 

 hind wings, or both. Underside in both sexes glossy pale 

 fulvous or ochreous, without markings, but with the apex and 

 hind margin of the fore wings slightly darker. Hardly 

 variable except a little in the depth of colouring, but speci- 

 mens of the second generation are commonly smaller than 

 those of the first. 



