82 P0APHILIDJ5. 



POAPHILID^. 



Poaphila fasciata. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 8.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Male. Grey. Fore wing with an indistinct dai-k, waved, narrow, subbasal band ; a spot 

 at middle of cell, and distinct black lunula at end of it ; a dark narrow band beyond the cell, 

 inwardly-oblique below it, waved towards costa ; an irregular submarginal band, consisting 

 of a dark brown line inwardly, then a yellow band, then a dark brown diffused band, then 

 one of the ground-colour bordered exteriorly by a dark brown line ; a series of black sub- 

 marginal specks on a slight yellow gi'ound. Hind wing with an indistinct antemedial dark 

 band ; a double postmedial band ; an antecilial luuulate line. Underside with indistinct spot 

 at end of ceil of each wing ; dark medial and postmedial bands. 



Poaphila melanocephala. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 9.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Male. Head, palpi, antennre, and collar black ; thorax, abdomen, and wings pale ochreous. 

 Fore wing with a dark spot in middle of cell ; a narrow dark bar across end of it ; an indistinct 

 medial band, consisting of two parallel dark lines, waved towards costa, inwardly-oblique 

 towards inner margin, with the space between them ochreous and pinkish towards inner 

 margin ; a series of submarginal black specks between the nervules, the three in the inter- 

 spaces on either side of discoidal nervules large and diffused outwai'dly, the upper one to the 

 outer margin below the apex. Hind wing with black spot in cell; a medial waved dark 

 band ; a series of black submarginal spots. Underside ochreous, suffused with black ; fore 

 wing with lunule at end of cell; waved black postmedial band; three parallel submarginal 

 bands close together, the middle one darkest : hind wing with spot in cell ; waved medial, 

 lunulate postmedial, and submarginal black bands, the last widest and darkest and followed 

 by a diflused band. 



Poaphila marmorea. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 7.) 



Expanse 1 yg inch. 



Male. Head, palpi, antennse, and collar dusky black ; thorax, abdomen, and basal area of 

 wings as far as middle vinous brown ; followed by a greenish- ochreous band, narrow on hind 

 wing, broadening towards the costa of fore wing, along which it extends to the apes ; outer 

 area dusky ; both wings with numerous waved narrow medial and postmedial dark bands ; 

 fore wing with a submarginal series of dark spots ; an ochreous lunulate antecilial line to both 

 wings ; cilia ochreous, darker at tips and towards apex of fore wing ; a small spot at end of 



