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DICHROMA EQUESTRALIS. 
PLATE XXX. Fig. I. 
This genus has been established by Mr. Westwood 
for the reception of some pretty moths, of mode- 
rate size, brought from the Cape of Good Hope by 
Robert Templeton, Esq., R. A., and presented by 
him to the Museum of the Natural History Society 
of Belfast. When at rest, the wings are reflexed at 
the sides of the body ; they arc rather elongate and 
subtriangular, the extremity being slightly acute. 
They are distinguished by having the ground colour 
of a uniform tint, but marked with numerous more 
or less confluent spots and lines of a silvery white 
colour. This contrast has suggested the generic 
name given above : the head is of moderate size, 
with the antenna rather short and bipectinated in 
the males, the pectinations being rather short ; in 
the females they are simple : the palpi are rather 
short, but are visible in front of the head, when 
seen from above. They are thickly clothed with 
scales to the tip, and ascend upwards to about the 
height of the middle of the eye. The spiral tongue 
is long and convoluted. The body is slender, and 
not thickly clothed with hairs. The anterior feet 
