28 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOl'TERA. 



The short, recurved, approximating palpi of the insects of this 

 genus, combined with the acuteness of the anterior wings, which have 

 the appearance of being subfalcate, the elongated slender abdomen, 

 long legs and lively pale colours of the insect, point out its dissimi- 

 larity to the allied genera. 



Sp. 1. flammealis. AUs basi margineque eitenio exfiavoriifis, medio dilutiorihus, 

 strigis duabus albis ; anticis macula media J'uicd, ciliis albo maciilaiis. (Exp. 

 Alar. 8—10 liri.) 



Py. flammealis. Hubner — N. G. flammealis. Steph. Catal. 11. 160. No. 6780. 



Wings purplish-red; anterior dark at the base, with an Incurved white streak 

 as a border, then a broad pale space bordered also externally with a white 

 line, and bearing in the middle towards the costa a brown dot ; the hinder 

 margin beyond darker, with an extremely slender marginal black line : the 

 costa is marked with small dusky and white dots : cilia white, with dusky 

 spots : posterior wings very similar, the base and apex being dark, with a 

 pale band in the centre, edged on t ach side with a white line ; the extreme 

 hinder margin with a fine black line, and the cilia white and blackish. 



Variable in colour ; the female smallest, with the wings more slender and paler 

 in colour. 



Caterpillar feeds on the privet {Ligustruiii vulgare) : the imago frequents 

 woods towards the end of June. 



Not uncommon in woods in the vicinity of London, especially at 

 Coombe, Darenth, and Birch Woods. 



Genus CCLIX. — Simaethis, Leach. 



Palpi two, short, porrected obliquely, curved at the base, triarticulate, the 

 articulations subequal, densely clothed with short scales or elongate hairs, 

 like bundles of scales, leaving the terminal joint exposed ; the latter, when 

 denuded, rather shorter than the basal, and attenuated to the apex, inter- 

 mediate joint rather longest and stoutest : maxillcE long. Antenna moderate, 

 slender, pilose beneath ; ciliated in the males ; head small, squamous : eyes 

 moderate : thorax slender : wings ample, anterior formhig a rhomboid figure 

 during repose ; colours dingy, anterior generally retuse, sometimes acute : 

 body short, linear, obtuse, stoutest in the females : legs short; posterior tibias 

 having two pair of long spurs. 



The pretty insects constituting the present genus offer several 

 points of resemblance to the Tortricidae, and until their metamor- 

 phoses and the general structure of this portion of the Lepidoptera be 

 better understood, it will be difficult to assign them to their proper 



