42 HAUSTKLLATA. LEPIDOFTERA. 



found also in various parts of the country, but much less abundantly 

 than the last- mentioned species. 



Gekus CCLXVII. — PiiLYCT.ENiA, Hiibner. 



Palpi ^owr; maxillary small, acute; labial elongate, horizontal, clothed with 

 elongate scales beneath, which nearly conceal the terminal joint, triarticu- 

 late, the apical joint rather short, acute : maxillas very long. Antennw rather 

 short, simple in both sexes, the terminal joints each with a fine minute pro- 

 jection at the tip : head small, tumid in front before the antennae : eyes 

 globose: Morcto: rather slender : wings placed in a triangle during repose, 

 anterior slightly acute at the apex, with the hinder margin obscurely emar- 

 ginate ; posterior ovate-triangular, also faintly emarginate on the hhider 

 margin; all of dark colours, with large pale blotches: abdomen rather 

 short, attenuated in the middle, with a small acute tuft at the apex, and 

 annulated : legs rather short ; posterior tibiae with two pair of spurs. 

 Larva slenderj with sixteen legs ; pupa folliculated. 



The only indigenous species of this genus evidently differs from any 

 of the species of Margaritia to allow of its being associated therewith ; 

 and it likewise recedes sufficiently from the foregoing to authorize its 

 separation, a fact established by the conflicting opinions of authors 

 with regard to its location : it may be readily known by its dark 

 glossy wings, which have large blotches and interrupted streaks of a 

 pale hue, exclusively of the diversity in the structure of its trophi, 

 &c. 



Sp. 1. Sambucalis. AUsfuscis, maculis irregularibus Jlavo-albidis, ante strigam 

 communem repandam punctorum albidorum. ( Exp. Alar. 9 — 12 lin.) 



Ph. Sambucalis. Wien. T^-^.— Hyd. Sambucata. Steph. Catal. ii. No. 6798. 

 Albin. pi. xxxvii. J". 59. a — d. 



Wings brown ; anterior with a subquadrate yellowish-white spot in the 

 middle, a small triangular one behind it towards the inner margin, and a 

 larger ovate-triangular one adjoining towards the hinder margin : on the 

 costa behind the middle a repanded streak of whitish, or yellowish, spots 

 occurs, and, passing onwards to the inner margin behind the small triangular 

 spot, is carried on, as it were, more distinctly through the posterior wings 

 to their inner edge ; the posterior wings themselves have three large 

 whitish-yellow blotches within this striga, and all the wings have a more 

 or less distinct yellowish-white irregular streak on the hinder margin itself: 

 . cilia fuscous, Avhitish at the apex towards the anal angle. 



The caterpillar feeds on the elder {Sambucus nigra); it is of a whitish-green 

 . with a slender pale green dorsal line, with a whitish one on each side ; the 



