146 LEPIDOPTERA, 



Anterior wings narrower and with the costal apex blunter 

 than in Ornatella. Ground colour dark reddish-loam yel- 

 low, with the costa dusted with whitish to the second trans- 

 verse line, and certaiidy on the disc more plentifully and 

 broadly whitish, The first transverse line, going obliquely 

 from the costa to the inner margin, forms several angles, in 

 which and at their tips stand brown darker spots; it is 

 generally faint, and in variety h interrupted at the same 

 place as in Ornatella. The two black spots ai'c of nearly 

 equal size. The lower stands in a whitish streak, which goes 

 from the first to the second transverse line. The whitish 

 dusting is never so pale nor so abundant as in Suhornatella 

 and Ornaiella. The second transverse line, bi-oadly mar- 

 o-ined by the ground colour, and sometimes edged with dark 

 lons^itudinal streaks on the veins, forms first opposite the 

 lower central spot, then before the subdorsal vein, an angle 

 towards the disc ; between these it is slightly and indistinctly 

 serrated. Before the hind margin is a row of hlack spots 

 on a white dusted ground, which stand as in Ornatella and 

 Subornatella, but are never so distinct and large. The 

 brown gi'ey cilia, as in those species, are mai'ked with fine 

 pale transverse lines. 



Posterior wings brown-grey ; a darker transverse line 

 before the base of the paler cilia- 



Underside shining brown-grey ; in the female unicolorous; 

 in the male the hind wings are pale grey, with the veins 

 darker : all have a dark intersecting line near the base of the 

 paler cilia. The anterior wings have on the costa before the apex 

 a pale s[)ot, under which, more faintly than in the allied spe- 

 cies, a trace can be perceived of the second transverse line : 

 in the female the spot is quite faint, and of the showing- 

 thiough transverse line nothing at all to be seen. 



Of the varieties only d and e are of especial importance ; 

 h isonlv distinguished by the interruj)iion of the first trans- 



