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DICHROMA EQUESTRALIS.
PLATE XXX. Fig. 1.
This genus has been established by Mr. Westwood for the reception of some pretty moths, of moderate 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 are 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 antennæ 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
