306 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Cinereous. Head brownish in front. Palpi brownish, 

 smooth, erect, rising a little higher than the vertex ; third joint lan- 

 ceolate, slender, not more than one-third of the length of the second. 

 Antennae brown, minutely serrated. Thorax with two brown spots 

 on each side in front, and with one on each of the fore tegulse ; hind 

 tegulae long, striped with brown on the outer side. Pectus mostly 

 brown. Abdomen bright rose-colour, extending a little beyond the 

 hind wings, with black spots along each side beneath. Less striped 

 with brown. Wings whitish, semihyaline. Fore wings slightly 

 rounded at the tips ; basal space brown, including a luteous band ; 

 some luteous streaks along the costa and on the veins ; three irregu- 

 lar darker brown bands composed of spots ; first band composed of 

 a spot near the costa and of three posterior dots ; second and third 

 more complete ; third extending to the exterior border. Hind 

 wings bordered with pale brown at the tips and along the exterior 

 border. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



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Carales tenebrosa. 



Foam. Nigro-fusca ; palpi graciles, oblique ascendentes, articulo 

 So lanceolato 2o vix breviore ; thorax vittis duabus latis ab- 

 breviates albidis ; alee anticce angustce albido quadriplagiatce, 

 plagis nigro venosis, margine exteriore convexo perobliquo. 



Female. Blackish brown. Palpi slender, obliquely ascending, 

 not rising higher than the vertex ; third joint lanceolate, nearly as 

 long as the second. Thorax with a short broad whitish stripe on 

 each side. Abdomen extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. 

 Legs stout, smooth ; hind tibise with four short stout spurs. Fore 

 wings narrow, with four whitish patches, which are intersected by 

 the black veins; first on the interior border near the base; second 

 by the interior border, opposite the third, which is costal ; fourth 

 apical ; exterior border convex, extremely oblique. Length of the 

 body 6 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



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Carales mintjscula. 



Fcem. Cervina ; palpi oblique ascendentes, fusco bifasciati ; an- 

 tenna serratce ; abdomen roseum vitta guttulari fusca ; pedes 

 fusco vittati et fasciati; alee anticce fusco conspersce, macula 



