1016 CATALOGUE OF 



Female. Body slender. Frontal tuft prominent, smooth, 

 squamous. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi porrect, rostriform, 

 squamous, hardly curved downward, a little longer than the breadth 

 of the head ; third joint lanceolate, full half the length of the second. 

 Antennae smooth ; first joint thick. Abdomen hardly extending 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs moderately long and stout ; hind 

 tibiae with four very long spurs. Wings moderately broad. Fore 

 wings hardly acute, with a squamous tuft on the middle of the 

 costa, which is nearly straight ; exterior border slightly convex and 

 oblique. 



1. ASCHA RECONDITANA. 



Foem. Cupreo-nigra ; caput viride ; proboscis fulva ; alee anticce 

 lituris nonnullis marginalibus viridi nitentibus ; postwar lutea, 

 margine lato nigro-cupreo, striga obliqua coccinea marginem 

 versus dilatata. 



Female. Cupreous-black. Head and palpi mostly metallic- 

 green. Proboscis tawny. Fore wings tinged here and there with 

 metallic-green along the borders. Hind wings luteous, with a 

 blackish cupreous border, which is very broad about the tips ; a 

 crimson streak, which is attenuated towards the disk, from whence 

 it extends to the exterior border. Length of the body 3^ lines; 

 of the wings 8£ lines. 



a. Ega. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Page 530. 

 10, Hyponomeuta multtpunctellus. 

 multipunctella, Clms. — ordinatellus, p. 530. 



Page 536. 



PSECADIA ABRAXASELLA. 



Foem. Alba ; palpi nigra bifasciati y capitis latiiudine non longi* 

 ores ; thorax fasciis duabus guttularibus nigris ; abdomen 

 ameo-cinereum ; tibia anteriores tarsique pallide lutea, nigro 

 fasciata ; tibia postica? fimbriate ; ala antica? sat angusta, 

 apice rotundata, strigis transversis nigris, plagis duabus fascia 

 exteriore lineaque marginali fuscis, lituris duabus luteis ; 

 posticat purpureo-cinerea?. 



