1684 CATALOGUE OF 



antice interruptis, puncto subcostali nigro ; posticce margine 

 exteriore subdenlalo. 



Male and female. Pale cinereous. Head brown, except the 

 vertex. Palpi brown, porrect, hardly extending beyond the head; 

 third joint extremely short. Antenna? of the male very miuutely 

 pubescent. Thorax with a blackish band. Abdomen not extending: 

 beyond the hind wings; first segment with a black band on the 

 hind border; hind borders of the following; segments black, with a 

 small black crest. Wings elongate, with eight black hardly 7 

 lines, of which the fifth is partly bordered wi sh on the outer 



side, and emits black streaks on the veins from its inner side; a 

 whitish zigzag submargmal line, intersecting black streaks in the 

 fore wings ; under side with a black spot in the disk, and with four 

 blackish slightly undulating and dentate lines, the fourth emitting 

 short black streaks from its inner side: these lines are less oblique 

 than those before mentioned. Fore wings acute; a lubmarginal 

 stripe in which the lines are almost ob€ ?k point in the 



stripe ; exterior border convex, very oblique. Mind wings with the 

 exterior border festooned. Length of the bodv b lines ; of the wings 

 16 lines. 



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



Phiba.la.ptb a tx i.atirupta. 



Mas. Cinerea ; caput fuscum ; palpi futei % vix decumbentes, 

 caput non superantes ; antenna} pubesccntes ; abdomen (rifas- 

 ciafum, fascia \a pillule cinerea t '2a Saquefutcii ; uUe h 

 ndnnullis fuscis interruplu indislinctis, lineis tribu< cinrreis 

 denticulatisj la nigricante mbmarginata, 2a nigro punctata, 

 3a suinnaryinnli ; antica lineu duabw antemediisfi 

 lath nigro marginatis, gutta media nigra, tinea nigra post- 

 media brevi antica undulata cinereo ferrugineoque marginata. 



Male. Cinereous. Head brown. Palpi brown, hardly decum- 

 bent, not extending beyond the head ; third joint extremely short. 

 Antenna? stout, minutely pubescent. Abdomen not extending 

 beyond the hind wings ; a pale cinereous band at the base ; second 

 and third segments with brown bands. Wings elongate} with some 

 slender indistinct and incomplete brown lines ; three denticulate 

 cinereous lines; the first slightly blackish-bordered, the second 

 accompanied by black points, the third submarginal : marginal 

 festoon black. Fore wings hardly acute ; two broad ferruginous 



