398 Mr. Butler's descriptions of Lepidoptera- 



black strife, the two Tipper ones crossed by a zigzag white line ; a 

 diffused white subapical dash below the black striae ; median inter- 

 spaces fuliginous-brown, enclosing longitudinal black strife, and 

 crossed by white lunate markings ; a deeply dentate-sinuate slender 

 black marginal line ; fringe white spotted with fuliginous-brown ; 

 secondaries pale testaceous or whity brown with golden cupreous 

 reflections, the veins, a discal line, and a broad external border 

 greyish brown ; fringe white ; thorax brown, white-speckled and 

 streaked with black ; abdomen mouse-grey ; under sm'face whitish, 

 with faint cupreous reflections ; disco-cellular spots lunate, two 

 somewhat diffused discal arched stripes, the veins, and a slender 

 marginal line greyish chocolate ; tibise hairy, chocolate-tinted ; 

 tarsi black-barred. Expanse of wings, 34 mm. 



Peak Downs. 



The genus Crioa appears to me to be allied to the 

 European genus Lithocampa. 



ACONTIIDiE. 

 Aporocosmus, n. g. 



Alhed to Agrophila ; with similar pattern ; the thorax, however, 

 smoother ; the palpi longer, porrected, the veining of the wings 

 somewhat different ; costal vein of primaries extending to about 

 the middle of the costal margin ; subcostal four-branched, the fifth 

 branch being emitted as a third radial from the anterior angle of 

 the cell ; first subcostal branch emitted before the end of the cell, 

 second running from the end of the cell to costa, third and fourth 

 formmg a short fork, the fourth running to apex ; upper (in this 

 case the second) radial emitted from the same point with the fifth 

 subcostal branch (or first radial) ; lower or third radial emitted as 

 a fourth median branch from the inferior angle of the cell ; first 

 and second median branches wide apart ; secondaries with the 

 costal vein much swollen at the base, coalescing with the subcostal 

 to beyond the cell, where it separates and runs obliquely to apex ; 

 the first branch of the subcostal vein thus appears to be merely a 

 furca from the costal, and its second branch is emitted freely as a 

 radial ; the true radial is emitted as a fourth median branch at the 

 same point with the third median and close to the origin of the 

 second ; disco-cellulars very oblique and angulated ; first and 

 second median branches tolerably wide apart ; legs rather long 

 and compressed. 



