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16. Mnesampela comarcha, Meyr. 



Expanse, 1' 8". April. 



A good deal like the last superficially, but the ground colour 

 o£ all the wings is a pale brownish purple. The antennas of 

 males also show a specific difference, and the insect appears 

 later. This moth seems to be rare. 



17. M^ESAMPELA FUCATA, Feld. 



Expanse, male, 2' 4'. (I have never seen the female). 

 May. 



Eore-wings orange, speckled all over with minute purple 

 spots. There are also three larger red spots — one at base, one 

 at centre of wing near base, and the third below costa at about 

 two-thirds. The hind-wings are pale primrose-yellow, without 

 markings. The female is said to be larger and darker than 

 the male. A rare insect everywhere. 



18. Criomacha belidearia, Feld. 



Expanse, 2' 1" to 2' 5" '. May. 



Another variable insect, which may be separated into two- 

 distinct types, which remain good in both sexes. So distinct 

 are they in appearance that I considered them different species, 

 but Mr. Meyrick thinks otherwise, and so I place them to- 

 gether. In the first the wings are bright brick-red, without 

 any distinct markings ; in the other they are pale reddish 

 brown, speckled all over with brownish-purple, and with a more 

 or less distinct darker band across centre of wings. The hind 

 wings are alike in all, reddish-white, inclining to purple on 

 outer margin. Eairly common some years ; absent others. 



19. Criomacha eribola, Meyr. 



Expanse, 2' 4". March. 



Only one specimen of this species is known, a female, and it is 

 just possible that it may be a very abnormal variety of belidearia, 

 but it is such an entirely different looking insect that Mr. 

 Meyrick decided to name it. The fore-wings are dark brown 

 with a yellowish tinge ; a black outward curved zigzag line 

 crosses them at one-third, and another, nearly straight, at four- 

 fifths. The thorax is the same colour as the wings, but the 

 crest and head are orange, thus differing from belidearia, in 

 all of which the head is the same colour as the wings. The hind- 

 wings are pale yellow, with a deep reddish-brown border. The 

 body is pale yellow. 



20. Chlentas arietaria, On. 

 Expanse, 1' 5". March and April. 



Eore-wings brown, suffused with silvery-gray in centre. 

 Three narrow black streaks run from near base up the centre 



