1332 CATALOGUE OF 



base ; third lanceolate, rather shorter than the second. Thorax with 

 a brown dot on each side. Abdomen with a brown band on the 

 fore border of each segment. Legs very slender. Wings elongate, 

 with an ochraceous black-bordered marginal, band. Fore wings 

 rounded at the tips, with a short brown subcostal streak proceeding 

 from the base ; two ochraceous brown-bordered lines ; first line 

 undulating, proceeding from the base of the interior border, emitting 

 an oblique brown streak towards the costa, ending on the costa at a 

 little beyond two-thirds of the length; second submarginal, nearly 

 parallel to the exterior border ; a little transverse brown streak in 

 the disk. Hind wings with two slightly curved brown lines, which 

 are nearly parallel to the exterior border, the second interlined with 

 ochraceous. Male. — Antennae stout, pubescent. Abdomen extending 

 much beyond the hind wings. Female, — Antennae very slender. 

 Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings. Length of the 

 body 3J— 4 lines ; of the wings 9 — 10 lines. 



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



Oligostigma plicatalis. 



Mas. Cervina; palpi erecti, verticem non superantes, articulo So 

 lanceolato ; alee latiusculce* subargentece, fasciis ditabus ochra- 

 ceis nigro marginatis, 2a marginali ; anticce vitla postica fas- 

 ciaque obliqua ochraceis, fascia submarginali argentea, plica 

 discali Jimbriata, costa convexa ; posticce fascia marginali 

 puncta tria nigra argenteo notata includente, fascia basali 

 ochracea nigricante marginata, margine exteriore apicem versus 

 inciso. 



Male. Fawn-colour. Body beneath and legs silvery cinereous. 

 Palpi erect, squamous, not rising so high as the vertex ; third joint 

 lanceolate, shorter than the second. Antennae stout, minutely pu- 

 bescent. Legs long, slender. Wings elongate, rather broad, 

 slightly silvery, with two ochraceous black-bordered bands ; the first 

 near the exterior border, the second marginal. Fore wings acute, 

 with an ochraceous stripe along the interior border, and with an 

 oblique ochraceous band, which is connected near the interior angle 

 with the exterior band before mentioned ; the latter is divided by a 

 silvery band from the marginal band ; an elongated densely fringed 

 slightly tumid lappet in the disk ; costa and exterior border convex, 

 the latter moderately oblique. Hind wings with the two bands con- 

 nected towards the tip ; marginal band containing three black 

 silvery-marked points ; a basal ochraceous blackish-bordered band ; 



