268 MANY-PLUMED MOTH. 



ner of a feather, of a central shaft, and fine diverg- 

 ing cilia on two of its sides. Each of the anterior 

 wings contains eight of these fringed rays, and each 

 of the hinder ones four only. The palpi are long, 

 slender, and recurved ; the terminal joint very long 

 and acute, and turned upwards. The antennae are 

 rather short, the thorax not crested, and the bodj 

 scarcely extends beyond the hinder edge of the 

 wings. The species figured usually expands ahoul 

 half an inch or upwards, and is of an ashy gre^ 

 colour, with an irregular hrown hand near the 

 middle of the anterior wings and another on the 

 hinder margin, both of them with a whitish line 

 adjoining. The posterior wings are variegated with 

 brown and white, and a small black spot is visible 

 on the tip of all the plumes. 



The moth is found not unfrequently in houses, 

 towards the close of autumn, most "commonly on 

 the inside of windows creeping on the glass. 



