6 Mr. E. Newman's Notice of 



Imago of Perophora Batcsii. 



Male. — Antennae short, bipectinate, the first joint (scape of 

 Kirby) large and expanding outwards into a cup, the opening of 

 which is placed obliquely with the head, and to its centre the 

 second joint is attached, and this, as well as the remaining joints, 

 is directed outwards, so that the antennae may be said to be geni- 

 culated at the first joint : the remaining joints are forty-four in 

 number; their branches gradually increase in length froin the 1st 

 to the 11th, and then as gradually decrease to the 25th ; the rest 

 are uniformly short, all the branches are delicately ciliated to their 

 extremity. Eyes prominent, black, marbled witii brown. Maxillae 

 apparently wanting. Palpi minute, closely appressed and entirely 

 concealed by the somewhat projecting face. Thorax simple, 

 without any crest ; abdomen tapering, rather longer than the hind 

 wings, terminating in two long, hirsute parallel porrected processes. 

 Legs short, protibise densely clothed with long setiform scales ; 

 joints of tarsi cup-shaped ; claws stout, short, strongly uncinate ; 

 spurs not observable, probably wanting. 



Female. — Antennae as in the male, but the cilia of the branches 

 less distinct, and the branches themselves somewhat shorter ; 

 palpi somewhat more produced, their apex observable from 

 above. Eyes slightly smaller than in the male, black and beau- 

 tifully reticulated ; each area of the reticulation includes from fifty 

 to one hundred facets; possibly the mode of killing may have 

 caused the appearance of the eyes in both sexes. Legs as in the 

 male, but the protibiae not so densely clothed. Abdomen robust, 

 longer than the hind wings ; its apex undivided, but there is a 

 short tuft on each side. 



ISlale and female much alike, both amply winged, but the wings 

 of the female more ample than those of the male ; fore wings 

 subfalcate, the apical wings acute, their anal angle obtuse, their 

 outer margin sinuate ; hinder wings rather short, their outer angle 

 rounded, their anal acute and slightly produced, their outer margin 

 sinuate. The entire colour of body and wings testaceous and 

 sprinkled over with minute black dots, each of which is composed 

 of a single scale, differently shaped from the rest. There is a 

 transverse linear angulated fascia common to both wings, and of a 

 darker colour ; this commences on the costa of the upper wings, 

 at about two-thirds of its length, and runs diagonally towards ti)e 

 outer margin, but before it has reached half the distance between 

 its origin and the margin, it turns backwards at a right angle, and 

 then traverses both wings in a direct line, ceasing on the ab- 



