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female ; labial palpi porrect, about twice as long as the head ; 

 maxillary palpi about half as long as the labial palpi ; tongue 

 well developed, scaled at the base ; thorax smooth ; abdo- 

 men with a medium anal tuft ; legs of medium length, the 

 inner spurs half as long as the outer. 



Fore wings nearly three times as long as wide, the outer 

 margin entire and rounded, with twelve veins all separate 

 except 8 and 9, which are from one stalk; cell closed. 

 Hind wings with eight veins, 4 and 5 from a stalk ; cell 

 open. 



EUCHROMIUS OCELLEUS. (Plate V., figs. 13, 14.) 



Palparia ocellea Haw., Lep. Brit., p. 486 (1811). 

 Or 'ambus Cyrilli Costa, Dizion. Univ. di Agric. (1829). 

 Phycis funiculella Tr., Schmett. Eur.,Vol. IX., p. 200 (1832). 

 Araxes ocellea Steph., 111. Br. Ent. Haust., Vol. IV., p. 316 



(1834). 

 Phycis cirillella Costa, Faun. Napol. Phycid., p. 2, Plate V., 



fig. 2 (1836). 



Crambus funiculellus Zell., Isis, p. 175 (1839). 

 Crambus funiculellus Dup., Catalogue, p. 319 (1844). 

 Crambus Cyrilli Zell , Isis, p. 760 (1847). 

 Crambus Cyrilli Herrich-Schaeffer, Sch. Eur., Vol. IV., 



Plate XX., figs. 144, 145 (1849). 

 Eromene ocellea Zell., Chil. et Cram., p. 54 (1863). 

 Eromene Californicalis Pack., Ann. Lye. N. H. of N. Y., 



Vol. X., p. 264 (1873). 

 Eromene texana Robs., Ann. Lye. N. H. of N. Y., Vol. IX., 



p. 154, Plate L, fig. 5 (1875). 

 Eromene ocellea Leach, Br. Pyralids, p. 87, Plate X., fig. 2 



(1886). 

 Euchromius ocelleus Meyrick, Br. Lep , p. 396 (1895). 



Expanse of wings, 19-24 mm. Head, palpi, thorax and 

 fore wings light brownish ochreous, the latter thickly 

 sprinkled with dark brown ; an ochre-yellow, more or less 

 oblique band a little beyond the middle, with a narrow me- 

 tallic band dividing it, and a somewhat similar oblique 

 apical band. The terminal line consists of a row of golden 

 metallic spots, confluent on the apical third, and preceded by 

 a row of eight or nine black points arranged in pairs, except 

 'the second above the anal angle, which has three. These 

 black points are on the outer border of a clear field, which 

 is limited within by two fine gray lines, which terminate 



