324 LEPIDOPTERA. 



10. A. cursoria, Huh. — Expanse If to IJ inch. Fore 

 wings long, narrow, ratlier pointed, with straight costa ; 

 yellowish-brown, clouded or marbled with darker brown, 

 no wedges along hind margin, stigmata edged with whitish ; 

 hind wings white, bordered with grey. 



Antennas of the male pectinated to the middle with short 

 pointed teeth tipped with fine bristles, tapering off beyond 

 the middle, and leaving the apical portion threadlike ; colour 

 pale brown. Palpi and head strongly tufted, light brown ; 

 collar pale brown or whitish-brown, with two large dark 

 brown or even blackish-brown crescents just within the 

 upper margin. Thorax pale brown, barred and blotched 

 with whitish, or with the collar and raised shoulder-lappets 

 edged with white ; faintly crested at the back, the tufts 

 mottled with white and often edged behind with dark 

 brown ; fascicles dense, white ; abdomen yellowish-brown, 

 basal portion with abundant long whitish hair-scales ; lateral 

 tufts prominent ; anal tuft rather compressed and bluntly 

 pointed, light brown. Fore wings rather long and narrow ; 

 costal and dorsal margins very straight and diverging but 

 little ; apex bluntly pointed ; hind margin beneath it nearly 

 straight, oblique, bending and becoming more oblique below 

 the middle ; colour pale yellowish-brown or brownish-buff, 

 usually somewhat dusted and rippled with darker brown ; 

 basal line brown, abbreviated, broken, but distinct near the 

 costa ; first line brown, perpendicular, formed into a series of 

 irregular crescents, usually edged inwardly with whitish, and 

 duplicated ; second line curved out from the costa, but 

 bending back above the middle, and then proceeding 

 obliquely straight to the dorsal margin, but rippled through- 

 out into crescents with long points, which touch an exterior 

 series of dark dots or streaks ; subterminal line whitish, 

 rippled and meandering in its course from before the apex, 

 where it touches an oblique dark brown streak or triangle, 

 to the anal angle, edged inwardly with brown, but almost 



