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DICHROMA EQUESTRALIS. 

 PLATE XXX. Fig. 1. 



This genus has been established by Mr. Westwoe-d 

 for the reception of some pretty moths, of mode- 

 rate size, brought from the Cape of Good Hope by 

 Robert Templeton, Esq., R. A., and presented by 

 him to the Museum of the Natural History Society 

 of Belfast. "When at rest, the wings are reflexed at 

 the sides of the body ; they are rather elongate and 

 subtriangular, the extremity being slightly acute. 

 They are distinguished by having the ground colour 

 of a uniform tint, but marked with numerous more 

 or less confluent spots and lines of a silvery white 

 colour. This contrast has suggested the generic 

 name given above : the head is of moderate size, 

 with the antennas rather short and bipectinated in 

 the males, the pectinations being rather short ; in 

 the females they are simple : the palpi are rather 

 short, but are visible in front of the head, when 

 seen from above. They are thickly clothed with 

 scales to the tip, and ascend upwards to about the 

 height of the middle of the eye. The spiral tongue 

 is long and convoluted. The body is slender, and 

 not thickly clothed with hairs. The anterior feet 



