DREPANULID.^. 79 



Genua 3. CILIX. 



Antennge of the male pectinated to the tip, of the female 

 dentate; fore wings with the apex elongated, roauded, not 

 hooked ; hind wings narrow. Wings drawn in to a vertical 

 position in repose. 



The little species which follows is the sole representative 

 of this genus, and, like the last, has no near allies, the 

 numerous exotic species placed in the same family being very- 

 different in appearance. 



1. C. spinula, Schiff. ; glaucata. Stand. Cat. — Expanse 

 I to 1 inch. Wings rounded at the apex, white ; fore wings 

 with a bluish-brown blotch on the dorsal margin, surmounted 

 by a large brownish egg-shaped cloud. 



Antennae of the male short, but strongly pectinated to the 

 tip with short, stout, curved teeth, brown, with the shaft white. 

 Head closely pressed down, blackish, with a white line across 

 the top ; thorax slender, white ; abdomen short and small, 

 grey, with the base and apex white. Fore wings long, 

 expanded at the apex, principal nervures thickened ; costa 

 gently rounded in a long flat curve to the tip, which is 

 very blunt ; hind margin also very gently curved, but long 

 and oblique, the curve sweeping round the anal angle ; 

 dorsal margin nearly straight. Shining white, without the 

 smallest indication of the two usual transverse lines ; on the 

 dorsal margin is a large ovate tawny blotch, obscured by 

 broad bands of glistening, steely, bluish scales ; above, and 

 joining this, is a large oblique ovate blotch occupying the 

 whole middle of the wing, of a very pale greyish-brown and 

 containing silvery streaks on the nervures ; outside this is a 

 series of pale smoky-grey clouds, scalloped in accordance 

 with a line of darker grey lunules, lying in white spaces 

 along the hind margin ; cilia long, white. Female with 

 filiform antennae, otherwise quite similar. 



Underside of the fore wings white, extensively tinged, on 



