260 Mr. F. Walker's Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera 



winCTs irregularly speckled with black, partly paler ferruginous, 

 with some cinereous marks on the veins ; basal, interior and ex- 

 terior lines black ; exterior line forming some very acute angles ; 

 marginal lunules black ; reniform mark large, transverse, inde- 

 terminate, with a whitish disk. Hind-wings cinereous, speckled 

 with brown, wholly brown exteriorly ; an indistinct brownish 

 band and an exterior cinereous line ; marginal lunules blackish ; 

 underside paler, with brown speckles and with two undulating 

 brown lines. 



Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 24 lines. 



Fam. POAPHILID^. 



Genus Poaphila, Guen. 



PoapMla plagiata. 



Fcem. — Pallide cinereo-cervina, palpis porrectis compressis 

 supra fimbriatis caput superantibus articulo So minirao, an- 

 tennis breviusculis, abdoraine alas posticas superante, alis 

 anticis acutis, plaga oblonga guttaque exteriore lunulisque 

 marginalibus nigris. 



Female. — Pale cinereous fawn-colour, paler beneath. Palpi 

 porrect, compressed, fringed above, extending somewhat beyond 

 the head ; 3rd joint very minute. Antennae bare, rather short. 

 Abdomen extending rather beyond the hind-wings. Legs smooth, 

 with long spurs. Fore-wings acute, with an oblong black patch 

 which extends to the interior border, and with an exterior black 

 dot which is nearer the costa ; marginal lunules black ; exterior 

 border slightly convex. 



Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



PoapMla 1 Jigiirata. 



Fcem. — Fuscescente cinerea, palpis longis compressis ascenden- 

 tibus, antennis glabris, alis anticis lituris nonnullis atris albo- 

 flavescente narginatis, linea sub-margiriali fusca undulata, lu- 

 nulis marginalibus nigricantibus, punctis costalibus exteri- 

 oribus pallidis, margine exteriore sub-angulato. 



Female. — Brownish-cinereous. Palpi compressed, long, ob- 

 liquely ascending ; 2nd joint rather broad ; 3rd acuminated, very 

 slender, more ascending than the 2nd, and nearly half its length. 

 Antennae bare. Fore-wings with some deep black marks, which 

 are bordered with yellowish- white, and consist of an oblong patch 



