1342 CATALOGUE OP 



Female. Slaty cinereous, paler beneath. Palpi black, short, 

 broad, obtuse; third joint extremely minute. Antennae stout. 

 Wings elongate, wiib black marginal lunules. Fore win?s acute, 

 With several oblique slightly undulating brown lines, and with three 

 oblique bands, each of which is composed of three or four slightiv 

 undulating and nearly confluent black lines ; a large oblique deep 

 black discal streak, which is slightly interrupted ; submarginal line 

 pale cinereous, slightly undulating; exterior border slightly convex, 

 very oblique. Kind wings with many nearly straight brown lines ; 



inal space brown, intersected by the submarginal line. Length 

 of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Sydney. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



Genus 23. SCOTOSTA. 



Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis conspicua. Palpi porrecti, ros- 

 triformes, squamosi, acuti, contigui ; articulus lus pallidior ; 3us 

 parvus, conicus. Antennae filiformes, glabrae. Abdomen compres- 

 sum, maris fasciculo plus minusve radiato. Pedes laeves, longissimi ; 

 calcaria longa. Alee amplae, concolores, plus minusve dentatae, 

 lituris non diversis ; anticee trigcnae, lineis plurimis uudulatis aut 

 dentatis. 



Acidalia, p., Treit. ; Dup. 



Plerocvmia, Philereme et Calocalpe, p., Hubn. Verz. Schm. 330, 



332. 

 L^rentia.p., Boizd. ; Herr.-Sch. 



Scotosia, Sleph. III. Brit. Hnust. iii. 259 ; Guen. Phal. ii. 440. 

 Triphosa et Eucosmia, Sleph. 



Bony rather slender in the typical species. Proboscis distinct. 

 Palpi poirect, prominent, srnooihly squamous, compressed, contigu- 

 ous, rosiriform, acute: first joint paler ; third minute, conical. An- 

 tenna? filiform and smooth in both sexes. Abdomen compressed ; 

 t u It ot the male more or less expanded. Legs smooth, very 



: hind tiliae with four long spurs. Wings ample, more or less 

 dentate, alike in colour and with like markings. Fore wings trian- 

 gular, with numerous undulating or dentate lines. 



Group 1. 

 1. Scotosia dubitata. 

 Cin(rro-frm.'f;i)ira ; ahc dtnlattt, linta submarcjinali denliculata 

 albida, linta muryinuli lunulata nigra; antiea subnebulosa, 



