732 CATALOGUE OF 



of the surface from the base obliquely brown and containing three 

 black basal dots ; exterior surface partly and slightly clouded with 

 cinereous ; a black transverse streak beyond the middle, composed 

 of one spot and of three hinder points ; a cinereous spot near the 

 hinder side of the black spot and a little more exterior ; fringe cine- 

 reous ; exterior border straight, hardly oblique. Hind wings 

 brownish cinereous, whitish towards the base. Length of the body 

 5^- lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



73. Ckyptolechia indicate lla. 



Fcem. Subochraceo-alba ; thorax fuscus, antice albus ; alee anticce 

 latiwculce, apice rotundatce, plaga basali maculaque exteriore 

 posticis fuscis, hac nigro marginata extus diffusa, punctis 

 marginalibus nigris ; posticce cinereo-fuscce. 



Female. Ochraceous-white, stout. Thorx brown, white in 

 front. Legs rather stout. Wings rather broad. Fore wings 

 rounded at the tips, with an elongated brown patch, which rests on 

 the basal part of the interior border and occupies more than half the 

 breadth and less than half the length of the wing ; a larire brow?; 

 spot on the apical part of the iuterior border, which is diffuse out- 

 wardly and is bounded by two oblique black lines, of which the 

 inner one is prolonged towards the patch ; marginal points black ; 

 exterior border very convex, not oblique ; under side with a long 

 penicillate tuft of hairs at the base. Hind wings cinereous-brown. 

 Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



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



74. Ckyptolechia externella. 



Mas. Cervina, robusta, svbtus argent ea ; antennae pubescentes ; 

 alee anticce apice rotundatce, playa postica basali elongatafusca, 

 puncto exteriore discali transverso nigricante; posticce fuscce, 

 fimbria pallide cervina. 



Male. Fawn-colour, stout. Head in front, body beneath, palpi 

 and le^s silvery white. Palpi smooth, very much longer than the 

 breadth of the head ; third joint setiform, a little shorter than the 

 second. Antennie minutely pubescent. Abdomen hardly extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Hind tibiae not fringed. Wings mode- 

 rately broad. Fore wings rounded at the tips, with an elongated 



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