38 CHARACTERS OF UXDESCRIBKD 



la lineas duas cinereas includente 3a liueara valde flexam punctaque 

 quatuor costalia alba includente striga nigra brevissima spatio 

 exteriore cinereo lineam albam undulatam strigasque albas nigro 

 notatas guttasque duas nigras includente, alis posticis pallide cinereis. 



Male. Blackish, dingy cinereous beneath. Proboscis testaceous. 

 Antennae black, stout, smooth. Thorax with three irregular whitish 

 bands. Abdomen whitish, with three black dorsal tufts before the 

 middle, extending a little beyond the hind wings. Fore wings reddish 

 white, with three large brown partly black patches ; first patch on the 

 base of the costa in front of a very short black streak, traversed by 

 two cinereous lines ; second on the interior border, connected with 

 the first; third along the outer part of the costa, including a white 

 much bent line and four costal white spots ; exterior part cinereous, 

 including a white undulating line (which is dilated at the tip of the 

 wing) and on its inner side two black dots and some white streaks, 

 the latter marked with black ; an interrupted brown marginal line. 

 Hind wings pale cinereous. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the 

 wings 11 lines. 



64. ACONTFA ANTECEDENS. Fccm. Alba, capite nigro, palpis 

 porrectis caput vix superantibus, alis anticis apice rotundatis lituris 

 quatuor costalibus cinereis puncto discoidali punctisque marginalibus 

 nigris plaga fusca magna longa obliqua postmedia nigro-marginata 

 lineam nigram undulatam includente, alis posticis cinereo diffuse 

 marginatis. 



Female. White. Head black. Proboscis testaceous. Palpi 

 black, smooth, porrect, hardly extending beyond the head. Antenna? 

 black, tawny beneath. Fore wings rounded at the tips, with four 

 small cinereous costal marks, with a black point in the disk before 

 the middle, with black marginal points, and with a large oblique 

 elongated postmedial brown patch which is bordered with black and 

 includes an undulating black line. Hind wings diffusedly cinereous 

 along the exterior border. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 

 9 lines. 



65. ERASTRIA BRYOPHILOTDES. Mas. Fusca, palpis oblique 

 ascendentibus verticem non superantibus articulo 2o subtus fimbriato 

 3o longi-conico, abdomine cinereo fasciculis dorsalibus fuscis alas 

 posticas paullo superante, alis anticis plaga postica alba nigro-conspersa 

 lineis duabus angulosis nigris lineis duabus undulatis obscure fuscis 

 2o albo submarginata orbiculari et reniformi magnis fusco marginatis 

 hac albo submarginata linea submarginali angulosa lunulisque 

 marginalibus obscure fuscis albo marginatis, alis posticis pallide 

 cinereis. 



