46 HAUSTKI.LATA. LEPIDOPTEUA. 



The caterpillar is yellowish-green, with dusky lines and dots, and a faint 

 whitish line; the head brown; it feeds on cabbages and horse-radish : the 

 imago appears about the middle of May, and continues till October in 

 gardens, &c. 



Very common in gardens and fields in the neighbourhood of 

 London and in most parts of the country. " Wood Ditton, Cam- 

 bridgeshire, and Bath." — C C Bahington, Esq. " Newcastle, 

 Gibside, &c."— G. Walles, Esq. " Epping."— ilfr. H. Doubledmj. 



Genus CCLXXI.* — Makgaritia-j- mihi. 



Palpi four; maxillary small; labial rather short, porrect, triarticulate, gene- 

 rally clothed with long scales, which terminate in an acute point, and conceal 

 the apical joint; the basal joint usually short, the second elongate, the 

 terminal ovate, sometimes acute : maxillcB nearly as long as the antennae. 

 Antennte slender, setaceous, as long as, or shorter than, the wings, simple, 

 pubescent beneath : head small, smooth between the antenns : eyes large, 

 globose : thoi^ax rather slender : tvings entire, more or less of a pearlaceous 

 hue; forming a triangle during repose; anterior sometimes very long and 

 slender, sublanceolate or oblong-triangular, with the hinder margin trun- 

 cate or rounded; posterior generally ovate-triangular: abdomen slender, 

 sometimes long and tufted in the males ; rather stouter and acute at the tip 

 in the females : legs generally long; occasionally very long, slender ; poste- 

 rior tibiffi with two pair of spurs. Larva with sixteen legs: pupa slender, 

 folliculated. 



* In adopting this genus, as proposed in my Catalogue, I have continued 

 the name there given, as it neither corresponds with Scopula of Schrank, nor 

 with Botys of Latreille, the type of which latter genus, as established by the 

 last author in his Histoire Naturelle des Crust, et des Ins., v. iii. p. 414, 

 being Crambus erigatus, Fab. (probably Synaphe angustalis, supra p. 19), 

 and not Ph. Geo. purpuraria of Linne, as stated by Mr. Curtis in his remarks 

 upon the genus Scopula: Ph. purpurarm being given by Latreille, currente 

 calamo, in mistake for purpura^, rendered manifest by a comparison of his 

 characters with those of the two insects in question ; the true purpuraria, 

 — which is described by Latreille in vol. xiv. p. 222, and Botys purpuraria, 

 in p. 230 of the same vol. — neither agreeing with them, nor with the species 

 with which it is thus associated by Latreille, which Mr. Curtis would have 

 detected had he followed the principles laid down by himself under the genus 

 Pancalia, by reading the characters instead of merely looking at the names 

 of the species inserted by Latreille as constituting his genus Botys. 



1 Maf)yof)tr»yr, Margarita. 



