LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1581 



Genus BOARMIA, C. L. H. xxi. 334. 



BOARMIA BASTELICARIA. 



Bastelicaria, Bellier, A. S. E. F. 4me Ser. ii. 380, pi. 9, f. 3. 

 Corsica. 



BOARMIA PERFECTARIA. 



F(Em. Pallide cinerea ; alee anticce niyricante conspersa, lineis 

 tribus ex parte nigris et dilatatis ferruyineo submarginatis, 

 lilura disci punctisque maryinalibus nigris; anticce linea 

 antemedia nigra undulata. 



Female. Pale cinereous, minutely blackish-speckled. Antennae 

 minutely serrated and pubescent. Wings with the middle, post- 

 medial and submarginal lines irregular, partly black and dilated, 

 partly paler or interrupted ; space abuut the lines partly and slightly 

 clouded with ferruginous ; marginal points black ; a black transverse 

 mark in the disk, close to the middle line. Fore wings with a black 

 undulating postmedial line. Length oi* the body 7 lines; of the 

 wings 18 lines. 



Most allied to B. extremaria, from which species the well- 

 defined black lines of the wings distinguish it. 



South Africa. In Mr. D'Urban's collection. 



BOARMIA MUCIDARIA. 



Mas. Sordide ochraceo- cinerea, fusco conspersa; palpi breves, 

 oblique aseendentes, extus fusci, articulu So brevissimo ; an- 

 tenna late pectinatce ; thorax fusco bifasciatus ; abdominis 

 latera fasciculata ; alee lineis quatuor fuscis angulosis, la 

 duplicata, 2a interrupta, 4a albido ex parte marginata, plagis 

 apud lineas 3am 4amque nonnullisfuscis, lunulis marginalibus 

 nigris; anticce margine exteriore vix dentato ; posticce lineis 

 \a 2a que fere obsoletis, margine exteriore dentato. 



Male. Dingy ochraceous-cinereous, brown-speckled. Palpi 

 obliquely ascending, brown on the outer side, not rising so high as 

 the vertex ; third joint extremely short. Antennas broadly pectinated 

 to four-filths of the length. Thorax with two narrow brown bands. 

 Abdomen tufted along each side. Wings with four irregular zigzag 

 brown lines ; first and second lines almost obsolete in the hind wings; 

 first line double ; second interrupted ; third and fourth accompanied 

 by brown patches; fourth partly whitish-bordered ; marginal lunules 



