LEP1D0PTERA HETEROCERA. 681 



58. CECOPHORA RESUMPTELLA. 



Cupreo-cervina ; caput et pectus alba; palpi alba, subarcuati, 

 capitis latitudine multo longiores, articulo 2o extus fusco, 

 3o longo ; tibia posticce fimbriate ; alee anticce apice rotund- 

 atce, plaga magna et fascia exteriore interrupta postice pur- 

 puroscente albis, spatio marginali ex parte purpurascente- 

 albido ; posticce fimbria cinerea. 



Cupreous fawn-cnlour. Head and pectus white. Palpi white, 

 smooth, vertical, slightly curved, much longer than the breadth of 

 the head; second joint mostly brown on the outer side; third seti- 

 form, nearly as long as the second. Antennae rather shorter than 

 the fore wings. Hind tibiae fringed. Fore wings rouuded at the 

 lips, with a large white patch, which rests on the interior border 

 and extends nearly to the costa and to the base ; an exterior white 

 band, interrupted in the middle, purple-tinged hindward; marginal 

 space partly and irregularly whitish and with a purple tinge. Hind 

 wings with the fringe cinereous, except towards the base. Length 

 of the body 4 ? lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Australia. From Mr. Diggles' collection. 



59. CECOPHORA COMPARE LLA. 



Foera. Alba; palpi articulo 2o basi fusco ; thorax fasco 

 bifasciatus ; pedes anteriores fuscescentes ; posticce flavescentes ; 

 alee anticce fasciis tribus indeterminatis fuscis, la basali 

 angusta, 2a postice latissima guttam albam includente strigam 

 posticam emitlente, 3a strigas quinque emittente ; posticus 

 cinerecB, 



Female. White. Palpi full twice longer than the breadth of 

 the head ; second joint brown at the base on the outer side ; third 

 setiform, shorter than the second. Antennae slender. Thorax with 

 two brown bands, one in front, the other hindward. Anterior legs 

 mostly brownish ; hind legs yellowish, their tibiae fringed. Fore 

 wings rather narrow, rounded at the tips, with three irregular brown 

 bands; firsthand narrow, very near the base; second very broad hind- 

 ward, containing an irregular white dot, and emitting a streak in the 

 disk towards the first band; third connected in the hindward disk 

 with the second, emitting five streaks to the exterior border, which is 

 slightly convex and rather oblique; under side blackish cinereous. 



