32 HAUSTKLLATA. I.KPIDOPTK U A. 



Stout, about twice the length of the basal ; terminal ovate obtuse: maxilhc 

 rather long. Antenna: simple in both sexes; slightly pilose beneath, more 

 so in the males: head rather broad, densely scaly: eyes globose: thorax 

 somewhat robust: wings entire, placed in a triangle during repose ; all dark 

 with transverse white streaks, and sometimes spotted; anterior slightly 

 abbreviated; posterior ovate-triangular: hodif whitish, generally annulated: 

 legs slender ; posterior tibife with two pair of spurs at the apex. 



The pretty insects of this genus are of small stature and have the 

 anterior wings rather short, all the wings of dark colour, with pale 

 transverse fasciac?form streaks ; the palpi are longish, approximating 

 in form of a beak and slightly dissimilar to those of the foregoing and 

 following genera : they fly by day in grassy places, and are usually 

 double brooded. 



Sp. 1. cingulata. Alls atris, strigd obliquti nivca. (Exp. Alar. 6 — 8 lin.) 



Ph. Ge. cingulata. Linne. — Pyr. cingulalis. Curtis, iii. ]il. 128. — Ennychia 

 cingulata. Stejih. Catal. ii. 162. No. 6788. 



Black, abdomen with narrow white margins to each segment : wings deep 

 black, anterior with an oblique slightly bent white streak a little beyond the 

 middle, carried onwards through the posterior wings almost to the anal 

 angle, forming a semicircular line : cilia brown at the base, white at the 

 apex. 



Very rare near London ; found not very uncommonly in moun- 

 tainous districts, being frequent in Devonshire and in the northern 

 counties of England ; and also in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. 



Sp. anguinalis. Alts atris, striga validd communi sinuaid nived paulo pone 

 niediu7n. (Exp. Alar, 6—7 lin.) 



Py. anguinalis. H'ubner. — Ennychia anguinalis. Sie^ih. Catal. ii. 162. 

 No. 6787. 



Black; abdomen with a narrow white edge to each segment; anterior wings 

 with a somewhat irregidarly curved snow-white streak a little beyond the 

 middle, carried on through the umer margin of the posterior wings ; cilia 

 black, with the tips white. 



Variable : in some specimens the anterior wings have a small white spot on 

 the inner edge towards the base, and a second rounded one in the middle : 

 the posterior have also occasionally a more or less distinct waved white spot 

 at the base. 



Kathcr local and not very abundant near London : I have taken 

 it at Darcnth and IJirch Woods, and occasionally near Colney 

 Hatch : it has also occurred near Southgate. 



