in the Collection of A. Fry, Esq. 269 



apice rotiindatae costa recta, margine exteriore sub-convexo 

 perobliquo. 



Male. — Body stout. Head and thorax densely pilose. Pro- 

 boscis obsolete. Palpi porrect, stout, pilose, very short, not ex- 

 tending beyond the head ; 3rd joint very minute. Antennae 

 serrated on each side, with a setulose tuft on each tooth. Abdo- 

 men extending somewhat beyond the hind-wings. Legs stout, 

 pilose. Wings moderately broad. Fore-wings elongate, rounded 

 at the tips ; costa straight ; exterior bbrder slightly convex, very 

 oblique. 



Rifargia xylinoides, 



Mas. — Fusca, alis anticis purpureo-tinctis, costa basi vitta 

 postica maculaque sub-marginali viridescentibus, lituris dua- 

 bus basalibus strigisque marginalibus nigris, striga apicali 

 ligni-colori, reniformi angusta rufescente nigro-interlineata, 

 alis posticis albidis margine interiore sub-cervino. 



Male. — Brown, whitish-cinereous beneath. Fore-wings with a 

 purple tinge, greenish along the costa and at the base, with a 

 greenish hindward stripe, and with a greenish sub-marginal spot ; 

 a black mark at the base and a black streak along the base of the 

 interior border ; a row of longitudinal black streaks along the ex- 

 terior border ; fringe with blackish dots ; a pale oblique wood- 

 coloured apical streak ; reniform mark narrow, reddish, interlined 

 with black. Hind-wings whitish, with a fawn-coloured tinge 

 along the interior border, which is fringed with long hairs. 



Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



Fam. HADENID^. 

 Genus Hadena, Treit. 

 Hadena opima. 

 Fcem. — Ferruginea, palpis oblique ascendentibus dense pilosis 

 verticem non superantibus, abdomine alas posticas superante, 

 alis anticis nigro-conspersis ex parte pallidioribus, lituris 

 cinereis, lineis tribus lunulisque marginalibus nigris, reniformi 

 magna indeterminata disco albido, alis posticis cinereis extus 

 fuscis. 

 Female, — Ferruginous, partly cinereous beneath. Palpi stout, 

 obliquely ascending, not rising higher than the vertex; 2nd jomt 

 densely pilose beneath ; 3rd conical, hardly one-third of the 

 length of the 2nd. Abdomen extending somewhat beyond the 

 liind-wing§. Wings with the fringe slightly festooned. Fore- 



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