126 NOCTUID^. 



Ilyrgis echephurealis, IVIk. (Plate CLXVTI. fig. 12.) 

 Ilyrgis ecteplmrealis, Wlh. Cat. six. p. 880. 



Expanse $ |incb. 



Male. Head and thorax pale brown, suffused with grey ; vertex of head white ; abdomen 

 pale bronn with whitish rings. Fore wing pale brown ; traces of autemedial, postmedial, and 

 submargiual waved lines, each prominent and white at costa, the postmedial line escurved 

 beyond the cell. Hind wing pale brown, with traces of postmedial and snbmarginal lines ; 

 both wings with the cilia dark brown. 



Microeschus elataria, Wlk. (Plate CLXX. fig. 16.) 

 Hyria elataria, Wlh. Cat. xxii. p. 665. 



Expanse i inch. 



Head pale brown; collar purplish; thorax ochreous suffused with pink. Fore wing 

 ochreous white, with some indistinct waved pink lines ; the costa and cell purplish ; a purplish 

 streak from lower angle of cell to outer margin ; a snbmarginal series of white spots. Hind 

 wing ochreous white, much irrorated with pink ; l)oth wings with a dark marginal line, and 

 the cilia orange. 



Microeschus oblataria, Wlk. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 17 (larva).) 



H3Tia oblataria, Wlh. Cat. xxii. p. (iG.5. 



Larva. Covered with comminuted lichen arranged in tufts upon particular somites. The 

 colour of the covering varies with that of the lichen upon which the larva has been feeding. 

 The larva itself is cylindrical, smooth, and without any tubercles corresponding to the promi- 

 nent parts of its covering, and has three pairs of prolegs. It feeds on minute lichens growing 

 upon rocks and trees. If several larvre are confined together without other food they will 

 feed on the lichens with which they are covered. The cocoou is suspended by a cable of silk 

 beneath sheltered rocks, and is similarly covered with lichens. 



Microeschus rosellus. (Plate CLXX. fig. 17.) 



Expanse i inch. 



Male. Antoiinic ochreous ; head, thorax, and abdomen whitish, thickly irrorated witli 

 pink and a few black and silvery scales. Fore wing ochreous, irrorated with pink and a few 

 black scales, the pink scales forming an indistinct oblique medial line, and being most thickly 

 disposed over the outer area, leaving, however, an indistinct subtnarginai band of white 

 blotches and a black marginal line. Hind wing ochreous, evenly irrorated with pink and 

 black scales; a white spot in end of cell ; three postmedial white spots, one on the costa, one 

 beyond cud oi cell, the other on iuuer margin ; a black marginal line. 



