NEW MOTH. 193 



Mr. C. G. Barrett ; but he also failed to recognise them, telling me, 

 however, that they came near to Episclmia prodromella. He 

 kindly offered to send one of my specimens to M. Ragonot, at 

 Paris, who returned it saying that in his opinion it was new to 

 science. 



The following description is taken almost entirely from the 

 female ; the male had been out for some time and was worn, but 

 did not appear to differ in the colouring of the wings from the 

 female. The expansion of the wings in the female is 1" 1'"; in 

 the male it is slightly less. The breadth of the fore-wings is 

 almost exactly one-third of the length. The costa in the male is 

 regularly curved ; in the female it is much curved at the base and 

 less so near the tip, whilst the intermediate portion is nearly 

 straight. The tip is blunt and the hind-margin convex. 



The colour of the fore-wings is light cinereous grey, clouded with 

 dark grey, especially on the basal half of the wing. There is an 

 inconspicuous narrow light greyish-ochreous patch extending about 

 one-third of the way along the inner margin. The veins are 

 streaked with dark grey. Several dark grey lines cross the wing 

 from the costa to the inner margin ; but they are all very in- 

 distinct, and only traceable with difficulty owing to the wings being 

 clouded with the same colour. The most distinct are two lines, one 

 of which starts from the costa near the middle and runs towards the 

 anal angle as far as the centre of the wing, where it turns nearly at 

 right angles towards the base, and when at a short distance from 

 the inner margin turns again at right angles before it reaches it. 

 This line is double at the costa, and the two branches gradually 

 approach each other and meet on the inner margin. The other line 

 is one which runs from the costa near the tip, parallel to the hind 

 margin, to a point near the anal angle, where it turns sharply out- 

 wards to the anal angle. There are slight traces of two other lines, 

 one between the two above mentioned and one near the base ; but 

 it is difficult to follow their course owing to the clouding of the 

 wing. 



A patch of the pale ground colour, less clouded than the rest, 



