288 LEPIDOPTERA. 



3. A. segetum, 8(Mff. — Expanse li to If inch. 



Antennte of the male pectinated ; fore wings narrow, 

 obtuse, pale brown with darker stigmata in the male, 

 blackish in the female ; hind wings of male clear white, of 

 female greyish with darker nervures. 



Antennas of the male strongly pectinated with slender, 

 solid, ciliated teeth, which diminish in length beyond the 

 middle, leaving the apical third of the antenna threadlike ; 

 dark brown. Palpi almost hidden by dense drooping tufts 

 of long brown scales. Head tufted, light brown, barred 

 with darker ; lower front of the collar dark brown edged 

 above with black, leaving the remainder pale brown ; 

 shoulder-lappets pale brown, dusted with dark brown and 

 black ; remainder of thorax pale brown, the scales raised 

 narrowly in the middle into a slender double crest from the 

 collar to the back ; fascicles very long, whitish ; abdomen 

 whitish-brown plentifully covered with long paler scales ; 

 lateral tufts small, anal tuft narrow, light brown. Fore 

 wings rather narrow, costal and dorsal margins nearly 

 straight, apex very blunt, hind margin bluntly rounded and 

 very little oblique ; colour pale brown much dusted with 

 dark brown atoms ; costa clouded and spotted with black ; 

 basal line double, black, deeply toothed, extending only half- 

 way across the wing from the costa ; first line perpendicular, 

 black, duplicated and rather indented, but with the dupli- 

 cate line fainter; second line less distinct, blackish, con- 

 sisting of a series of small crescents with long points, 

 through which passes a more direct parallel line, both are 

 curved inward and then back before attaining the costa ; 

 subterminal line, when visible, a row of pale cloudy dots 

 edged inside by a line of blackish cloudy spots ; orbicular 

 stigma ovate, edged and centred with blackish, but often 

 obscure or hardly visible ; reniform stigma more distinct, 

 edged with blackish and nearly filled up with black -brown ; 

 claviform stigma small, edged with black, but inconspicuous ; 



