1460 CATALOGUE OF 



SCOPULA CALIGINOSALIS. 



Mas. Fusca; palpi porrecti, lanceolati, subtus albi, capitis lati- 

 tudine non breviores, articulo 3o parvo lanceolato ; abdomen 

 cano conspersum, alas posticas paullo superans ; alee latoe^ 

 obscure cervince, fascia marginali fusca ; anticee cano conspersa, 

 fascia lineisque duabus undulatis e atomis canis, orbiculari 

 annuliformi et reniformi fuscis. 



Male. Brown. Body beneath and legs silvery white. Palpi 

 porrect, smooth, lanceolate, white beneath, as long as the breadth of 

 the head ; third joint lanceolate, not more than one-fourth of the 

 length of the second. Antennae very minutely pubescent. Abdo- 

 men minutely hoary-speckled, extending a little beyond the hind 

 wings ; apical tuft moderately large. Legs smooth ; fore legs mostly 

 brown above. Wings broad, dull fawn-colour, with a brown mar- 

 ginal band. Fore wings acute, with numerous minute hoary 

 speckles, which are confluent in the middle part of the wing and 

 form a broad irregular band, which has on each side of it an undu- 

 lating line also formed by the speckles; orbicular and reniform 

 marks brown, the former represented by an elongated ringlet, the 

 latter of the usual form ; exterior border slightly convex, moderately 

 oblique. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



SCOPULA? STIPATALIS. 



Foem. Pallide flava ; oculi albo cincti ; palpi graciles, erectly 

 verticem paullo superantes, articulo So albo lanceolato, abdo- 

 men alas posticas non superans, segmentis albo marginatis ; 

 alee anticce apice subrotundatce, lituris nonnullis lineisque 

 duabus undulatis albis ; posticce albce, linea media indeter- 

 minata fasciaque submarginali abbreviata lineam albam inclu- 

 denteflavis. 

 Female. Pale yellow. Body beneath and legs white. Head 

 white about the eyes. Palpi white, erect, slender, rising a little 

 higher than the vertex; second joint yellow on the outer side; third 

 lanceolate, much shorter than the second. Abdomen not extending 

 beyond the hind wings; hind borders of the segments white. Fore 

 wings slightly rounded at the tips, with several irregular white 

 marks and with two undulating white lines ; first line antemedial, 

 second postmedial ; exterior border convex, very slightly oblique. 



