1548 CATALOGUE OF 



Most allied to E. Athasaria, bnt the line of the wings is nearer 

 the exterior border. 



a, b. North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. 



Genus AZELTNA, C. Z. H. xx. 185. 



AZELINA STYGIARIA. 



Mas. Nigricans; palpi pilosi, subascendentes, sat robusti, caput 

 vix superantes, articulo 3o brevissimo ; antenna subserratce ; 

 alee lata, nigro conspersa, fascia marginali lata einerea, mar- 

 gine exterior e angulato antice subdentato ; antica peracutce, 

 lineis duabus nigris undulatis, ~\a apud costam retracta ; 2a 

 intus diffusa, striga intermedia parva alba ; postica obscure 

 cinerece, linea nigricante subundulata, guitis tribus margin- 

 alibus punctisque duobus submarginalibus nigris, 



Male. Blackish, cinereous beneath. Palpi pilose, rather stout, 

 slightly ascending, hardly extending beyond the head ; third joint 

 extremely short. Antennae very minutely serrated. Abdomen not 

 extending beyond the hind wings; some small tufts along each 

 side ; apical tuft subquadrate. Legs slender. Wings broad, minutely 

 black-speckled; a broad cinereous marginal band ; exterior border 

 acutely angular in the middle, festooned in front; under side with a 

 whitish zigzag postmedial line, and with a mark in the disk, which 

 mark is whitish in the fore wings and black in the hind wings. 

 Fore wings very acute, with two black undulating lines; first line 

 antemedial, retracted and more conspicuous towards the costa ; 

 second postmedial, diffuse on the inner side, very concise on the 

 outer side; a slender oblique white streak in the disk between the 

 lines. Hind wings dark cinereous, which hue is divided from the ' 

 paler marginal band by a blackish slightly undulating line; three 

 black marginal dots and two black submaiginal points, the latter 

 nearer than the former to the costa. Length of the body 1\ lines ; 

 of the wings 20 lines. 



a. North America. From Mr. Carter's collection. 



AZELINA F^EDAKIA. 



Mas. Suboehraceo-cinerea ; caput et thorax cervina ; palpi por- 

 recti, graciles, pubescentes, caput perpaullo superantes, articulo 

 So minimo ; antenna late pec tinatce ; alcefusco strigata, fascia 

 lata undulata viridi-fusca lineam angulatam obscure fuscam 



