1562 CATALOGUE OF 
duobus minutis apicalibus. Ale sat anguste, non longe; antice 
apud costam recte, apice subrotundate, margine exteriore sub- 
obliquo. 
Male. Body robust. Palpi porrect, extending as far as the 
head; third joint minute, short, conical. Antenne setaceous, stout, 
somewhat compressed, very minutely serrated, much shortér than 
the thorax. Abdomen extending for full one-third of its length 
beyond the hind wings. Legs stout, pilose; hind tibie with two 
minute apical spurs. Wings rather narrow, not long. Fore wings 
straight along the costa, slightly rounded at the tips, slightly 
oblique along the exterior border; structure of the veins much like 
that of Hepialus. 
1. ELHAMMA SUBVARIA. 
Mas. Cervina ; caput et thorax obscure fusca ; antenne ltestacee ; 
pedes supra obscure fusct; ale ex parte cineree annulisque 
cinerets quadrifasciate, postice vie fasciale. 
Male. Fawn-colour. Head and thorax dark brown. Antenne 
testaceous. Legs partly dark brown above. Wings parily gray 
and with four oblique bands of small gray ringlets ; these bands are 
very indistinct on the hind wings, which are occasionally wholly 
gray. Length of the body 8—10 lines ; of the wings 18—24 lines. 
a—c. Van Dieman’s Land. Presented by — Walcott, Esy. 
2. ELHAMMA INCONCLUSO. 
Mas. Fusca; antenne fulve, subserrate, thorace breviores ; ab- 
domen cervinum, apice fuscum ; ale non longe, antice guttis 
nigricanitbus striga fasciaque albis Jae cervina, postice 
cervineg. 
Var. 6. Ale antice cervine guttis fasciague nigricantibus. 
Male. Brown. Antenne tawny, very minutely serrated, much 
shorter than the thorax. Abdomen and hind wings fawn-colour, 
the former brown towards the tip. Wings not long. Fore wings 
with blackish dots, with a white streak, extending from the base to 
the tip, and with two exterior indistinct ola bands, the one 
fawn-colour, the other whitish. 
Var. B. Fore wings fawn- colour, with wu Sie dots ; exterior 
bands obsolete; a more oblique imperfect blackish band extending 
from the tip of ‘the wing to the disk. Length of the body 8 lines; 
of the wings 18 lines. 
