718 CATALOGUE OF 



44. Cryptolechia completella. 



Mas et fcem. Cinereo-cervina, sericea ; caput villosum ; palporum 

 articulus 2us pubescens ; antenna maris setulosa ; pedes squa- 

 mosi, tibiis posticis fimbriatis ; aim antiece lata, apice rotun- 

 data, lineis septem obliquis obseurioribus, 3a 4a 5aque postice 

 abbreviatis, strigis octo exterioribus obscurioribus, linea sub' 

 marginali cinerea costam versus valde retracta, linea mar- 

 ginali cinerea extus cervino marginata ; postica cinerea, 



Male and female. Cinereous fawn-colour, stout, silky. Body 

 beneath and legs whitish. Head thickly clothed with short, erect 

 hairs. Palpi nearly twice longer than the breadth of the head ; 

 second joint pubescent ; third setiforro, nearly as long as the second. 

 Antenna? of the male minutely setulose. Abdomen extending some- 

 what beyond the hind wings. Legs stout, squamous; hind tibiae 

 with a short fringe. Wings broad. Fore wings somewhat rounded 

 at the tips, with seven oblique darker fawn-coloured lines; first and 

 second lines more longitudinal than the others, near the interior 

 border, on which they terminate; third, fourth and fifth short; sixth 

 and seventh extending nearly to the interior angle; eight dark 

 fawn-coloured longitudinal streaks between the seventh line and the 

 submarginal line, which is cinereous and is denticulated on its inner 

 side, and is retracted towards the costa as far as the seventh line; 

 marginal line cinereous, bordered with dark fawn-colour on its 

 outer side ; exterior border straight, not oblique. Hind wings 

 cinereous. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



a, b. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



45. Cryptolechia venosella. 



Fcem. Alba, sat robusta ; palporum articulus 2us extus nigricans ; 

 ala antiece lata, apice rotundata, venis, linea transversa undu- 

 lata, striga punctoque nigricantibus, punctis marginalibus 

 nigris; postica aneo-cinerea, basi alba. 



Female. White, rather stout. Palpi smooth, slender, nearly 

 twice longer than the breadth of the head ; second joint blackish on 

 the outer side, except towards the tip ; third seliform, as long as the 

 second. Abdomen hardly extending beyond the hind win<:s. Legs 

 stout. Wings broad. Fore wings rounded at the tips; veins 

 blackish, except towards the exterior border ; a deeply undulating 

 transverse blackish line limiting the blackish hue of the veins; a 

 short blackish streak in the disk before the middle, more hindward 







