TJL0CHLJ5NA. 139 



Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 217 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 92, pi. 26. f. 4. 



Pale grey with yellow stigmatal line. Eood-plants : Grasses, 

 feeding at night and hiding during the day in a silken case under- 

 ground. 4. 



Sect. II. Antenufe of male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; wiugs of 

 female partly aborted, the ccsta arched and fringed with hair, the 

 apex rounded ; cilia of both wings very long. 



*2246. UlocWaena scillse. 



Heliophobus scUIcb, Chret. Le Nat. ISSS, p. 92; id. Le Nat. 1892, p. 7; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. 



(S . Head and thorax black with a few grey hairs ; palpi at tips 

 and antennae ochreous ; metathorax with a pair of white points ; 

 pectus with ochreous-white hair ; tibiae with some purplish hair ; 

 tarsi fuscous with ochreous rings ; abdomen ochreous tinged with 

 fuscous at extremity. Fore wing purplish fuscous, the costal area 

 and inner margin ochreous white on medial area with black streak 

 above latter, the postmedial area purplish red ; the median nervure 

 and veins rising from it and vein 1 streaked with ochreous white on 

 medial area ; subbasal line black, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, blackish, strongly curved ; clavilbrm fuscous 

 defined by black, large ; orbicular purplish defined by black, round ; 

 reniform ochreous defined by black and with whitish line on 

 discocellulars, angled inwards on median nervure and almost 

 touching the orbicitlar, the cell before and between the stigmata and 

 the area before postmedial line fuscous brown ; postmedial line 

 double, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then 

 inwardly oblique and minutely waved, slightly bent outwards to 

 inner margin ; subterminal line dark, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 then curved and with dark streaks in the interspaces from it to the 

 terminal series of black lunules : cilia brownish with a darker line 



through them. Hind wing 

 ochreous suffused with brown, 

 darker on terminal area ; the 

 extremity of median nervure, 

 discocellulars, and veins just 

 beyond lower angle of cell 

 whitish ; a curved dark post- 

 medial line ; cilia brownish, 

 the underside ochreous white, 

 Fig. i\.— Uiock Icen a sc ill (?. \. the veins streaked with brown 



towards termen, a dark terminal 

 line ; cilia tinged with purplish pink. 



2 . Antennae dark ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing redder, 

 with the costal area and inner margin red-brown on medial area, 

 the veins without whitish streaks: reniform red-brown; sub- 

 terminal li:ae pale, with a series of whitish points without streaks 

 from it to the terminal lunules ; terminal area red-brown. Hind 



