82 
POAPHILIDJi. 
POAPHILIDiE. 
Poaphila fasciata. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 8.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Male. Grey. Fore wing with an indistinct dark, waved, narrow, subbasal band ; a spot 
at middle of cell, and distinct black lunule at end of it ; a dark narrow band beyond the cell, 
inwardly-oblique below it, waved towards costa ; an irregular subraarginal band, consisting 
of a dark brown line inwai'dly, then a yellow band, then a dark brown diffused band, then 
one of the ground-colour bordered exteriorly by a dark brown line; a series of black sub- 
marginal specks on a slight yellow ground. Hind wing with an indistinct antemedial dark 
band ; a double postmedial band ; an anteeilial lunulate line. Underside with indistinct spot 
at end of cell of each wing ; dark medial and postmedial bands. 
Poaphila melanocephala. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 9.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Male. Head, palpi, antennae, and collar black; thorax, abdomen, and wings pale ochreous. 
Fore wing with a dark spot in middle of cell ; a narrow dark bar across cud of it ; an indistinct 
medial band, consisting of two parallel dark lines, waved towards costa, inwardly-oblique 
towards inner margin, with the space between them ochreous and pinkish towards inner 
margin ; a series of submarginal black specks between the nervules, the three in the inter- 
spaces on either side of discoidal nervules large and diffused outwardly, the upper one to the 
outer margin below the apex. Hind wing with black spot in cell; a medial waved dark 
band ; a series of black submai'ginal spots. Underside ochreous, suffused with black ; fore 
wing with lunule at end of cell ; waved black postmedial band; three parallel submarginal 
bands close together, the middle one darkest : hind wing with spot in cell ; waved medial, 
lunulate postmedial, and submarginal black bands, the last widest and darkest and followed 
by a diffused band. 
Poaphila marmorea. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 7.) 
Expanse 1^^ inch. 
Male. Head, palpi, antennae, and collar dusky black; thorax, abdomen, and basal area of 
wings as far as middle vinous brown ; followed by a greenish-ochreous band, narrow on hind 
wing, broadening towards the costa of fore wing, along which it extends to the apex ; outer 
area dusky ; both wings with numerous waved narrow medial and postmedial dark bands ; 
fore wing with a submarginal series of dark spots ; an ochreous lunulate anteeilial line to both 
wings ; cilia ochreous, darker at tips and towards apex of fore wing ; a small spot at end of 
