974 CATALOGUE OF 



4. Entometa punctigera. 



Mas. Pallide fusca, pilis nonnullis albis ; caput album, antice 

 fuscum ; abdomen apice subtus album ; alee anticce fasciis 

 nonnullis linearibus obliquis undulosis albis, plaga basali 

 nigricante, guttisque nonnullis discalibus et exlerioribus ni- 

 gris ; posticce albo ciliatce. 



Male. Pale brown, with some white hairs. Head white, 

 brown about the palpi, which are partly white beneath. Antennae 

 with dark brown branches. Abdomen white at the tip beneath, ex- 

 tending a little beyond the hind wings. Fore wings with four or 

 five slender oblique undulating partly interrupted white bands, with 

 a large blackish basal spot, with three discal black dots, and with a 

 row of black dots along the exterior border. Hind wings with 

 a white fringe. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 1 1 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by H. G. Harrington, Esq. 



Genus 21. PEROPHORA. 



Mas et fcem. Corpus crassum. Proboscis obsoleta. Palpi 

 breves, validi, porrecti, pilosi, caput non superantes ; articulus 3us 

 minutus, conicus. Antenna* pectinatae, basi approximatae, 44-arti- 

 culatae, articulo lo incrassato porrecto, caeteris divaricatis, a lo ad 

 Hum ramulis longitudine sensim crescentibus, inde ad 25um sen- 

 sim decrescentibus, caeteris paribus brevissimis, omnibus ciliatis. 

 Abdomen alas posticas superans. Pedes breviusculi ; tibiae posticae 

 calcaribus apicalibus minimis. Alae sat longae, non latae ; anticae 

 subfalcatse. Mas. — Antennae late pectinatae, thorace non breviores. 

 Abdomen apice bifurcatum. Fcem. — Antennae mediocriter pecti- 

 natae, thorace breviores. Abdomen apice acuminatum. Larva 

 involucro mobili foliis constructo vitam deget. 



Saccophora, Harris. Doubleday, on some North American Lepi- 



doptera, Entomologist, 99. 

 Perophora, Harris, Ins. inj. to Vegetat. Ed. i. 299; Ed. ii. 319. 



Newm. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. New Series, iii. 1. 



Male and fern. Body stout, thickly clothed with short closely- 

 lying hairs. Proboscis obsolete. Palpi short, stout, pilose, porrect, 

 not extending beyond the head ; third joint minute, conical. An- 

 tennae pectinated to the tips. Abdomen extending beyond the hind 

 wings. Legs rather short ; femora and tibiae thickly pilose ; hind 

 tibiae with very minute apical spurs. Wings rather long, hardly 

 broad, thickly clothed, opaque. Fore wings nearly straight along 



