24 IIAUSTELLATA. LEl'IDOPTEKA. 



middle, a second behind the middle, very much bent and terminating on the 

 anal angle in a small blotch; in the middle is a double cnxular pale line : 

 posterior wings whitish, with a fuscous line on the margin : cilia whitish; 

 of the anterior wings coppery-brown. 



Much less abundant than the last ; I have taken several specimens 

 in my house at the Hermitage, and also at Hertford and Ripley ; as 

 well as one or two in London itself. " Epping." — Mr. H. Double- 

 day. *' Near Ely." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



tSp. 4. Streatfeildii. Lurido-och acca atoviis fuscis, striga hasaUJlmhriuqiie suh- 

 marginali puiictoque interjecto fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc. 2 lin.) 



Aglossa Streatfeildii. Curtis, Brit. Eiit. x. pi. 455. 



" Male lurid-ochre, speckled with fuscous and rather glossy : antenn.te ciliated 

 beneath: palpi with a dusky spot on the inside of the third joint at the base ; 

 edges blackish: su[)erior (anterior) wings with an angulated brown bar at 

 the base, a dot on the disc towards the costa, a fimbr'a of the same colour 

 at the posterior margin, having the internal edge simiated, with a row of 

 black dots at the base of the cilia, where there is an ochreous line extending 

 along the margin, nervures pale : inferior (posterior) wings rather palest 

 at the base." — Curtis, I. c. 



" Taken at Compton Bishop at tlie foot of the Mendip Hills, So- 

 merset, by the llev. J. Streatfeild/' — Curtis, I. c. 



Genus CCLVI. — Pyrat.is, Linne. 



Palpi short : maxillary minute ; labial ascending, squamous, apical joint ex- 

 posed, or concealed in form of an acute depending joint; triarticulate, basal 

 joint short; second elongate, slightly bent, and scarcely attenuated at the 

 apex ; apical short, ovate ; maxiUn' moderate. Antenna thickened at the 

 base, densely ciliated within in the males, but slightly so in the females : 

 head with elongate scales between the antenna;, not projecting as a tuft : eyes 



Sp. 3. dimidiatvis. Alis, anticis purjmr'nscente-ci nereis nigro nehulosis, posiicis 

 paUide fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 10 — 14 lin.) 



Cr. dimidiatus. Hawurth (!) — Ag. dimidiatus. Sfrph. Catal. ii. 160. 

 No. 6775, note. 



Anterior wings rather narrower, purplish-ash, with about five scattered black 

 lines, and on the costa some black spots and an obsolete pale one : posterior 

 wings pale brown. 



Taken not unconnnonly in the East India tea-warehouses: I have bred speci- 

 mens from tea: it is evidently not indigenous. 



