DREPANULIDuE. 1 1 9 



below second near tlie end, fourtli at half distance from below third and terminating 

 at the apex, fifth from end of the cell, running very close alongside second, bent 

 opposite base of fourth, and terminating below apex ; discocellular deeply concave, 

 radial from upper end in a line with subcostal ; two upper medians from angles at 

 end of the cell, second at one-fifth, and first at half before end of the cell ; submedian 

 almost straight : hindwing short, broad, exterior margin oblique, abdominal margin 

 long ; cell broad, apparently with a very slender discoidal veinlet emitted within the 

 cell; costal vein much arched at the base, recurved to apex; subcostal arched, first 

 branch emitted at one-third before end of the cell ; discocellular outwardly oblique, 

 bent in the middle ; two upper medians from acute angle at end of the cell, second 

 at one-fifth, and first at half before end of the cell ; submedian slightly recurved ; 

 no internal vein. Body short, stout, thorax compactly pilose ; palpi very small ; 

 antennge thick, flattened, pectinated, the branches short, thick and almost joined 

 together ; legs pilose, hind tibiae with two short spurs. 



ORETA EXTENSA (Plate 124, Fig. 3, 3a, ^J ? ). 



Oreta extensa. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1166 (1855), $ ; Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. 



ii. p. 370, pi. 11a, fig. 2, $, pi. 18, fig. 3, larva. 

 Oreta suffusa. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1167, $. 



Ochreous-yellow : forewing with some indistinct dull ferruginous transverse 

 strigse, a dull ferruginous oblique medial and an outer fascia, the division being by a 

 narrow line extending from the apex, the inner margin of the medial fascia irregular ; 

 some black and grey speckles at the posterior angle : hindwing with several dull 

 ferruginous speckles, which are disposed somewhat in transverse rows ; a basal and 

 an apical dull ferruginous blotchy fascia. Antennge, palpi, and legs above dull 

 ferruginous. 



Expanse, c? 1\, ? 1^ inch. 



Genus TELDENIA. 

 Wings small: forewing rather short, triangular, costa arched, apex pointed; 

 first and second subcostals emitted close together at nearly half before end of the 

 cell, second bifid at half its length, fourth from end of the cell and touching third 

 above its base, fifth from below its juncture with the third ; discocellular obliquely 

 concaye ; radial from fourth subcostal beyond end of the cell ; two upper medians 

 from angles at end of the cell, second at one-third, and first at two-thirds before end 

 of the cell ; submedian straight : hindwing short, broad ; exterior margin almost 

 angular in middle, abdominal margin long; costal vein very convex at the base; 

 subcostal arched at base, first subcostal at one-half before end of the cell, curving 

 upward towards costal ; discocellular outwardly oblique ; two upper medians from 

 angles at end of the cell, second at one-fourth and first at half before end of the 



