60 HAUSTKLLATA. — LEPIDOl'TKRA. 



Sp. 31. Prunalis. Alls fusco-ci nereis, anticis maculis duabus strigaque arenati 

 postica saturatioribus. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc. — 1 unc. 1 lin.) 



Py. Prunalis. Wien. Verz. — Scop. Prunalis. Steph. Catal. ii. 167. No. 6834. 



Wings ashy-brown ; anterior with a very faint darker streak towards the 

 middle, two stigmatiform dark spots in the middle, followed by a bent zig- 

 zag streak, which is bounded exteriorly on the inner edge of the wing with 

 whitish : on the extreme hinder margins is a row of black dots ; and on the 

 costa are some oblique abbreviated whitish streaks : cilia fuscous : posterior 

 whigs fuscous, with a faint row of blackish dots on the hinder margin : some- 

 times pale ashy brown, with a small dot towards the base, a central lunule 

 and an obscure curved streak towards the hinder margin dusky : cilia 

 fuscous. 



Caterpillar green, with two broad whitish dorsal stripes, two large black spots 

 anteriorly, and two smaller ones posteriorly: it feeds on the blackthorn 

 (Paunus spinosd) : the imago appears abundantly in hedges towards the 

 end of June. 



Also very abundant within the metropolitan district, in Hants, 

 Devonshire, &c. 



Genus CCLXXII. — Cyn.eda, Hiihiier. 



Palpi short; labial slender, not very densely clothed with scales, triarticulate, 

 the basal joint short, second elongate, attenuated, terminal ovate-acute: 

 maxillcE very short. Antennce rather short, subacute within and pubescent 

 in the males; simple in the females: head small: eyes moderate; thorax 

 rather stout : luings eniire, placed in a triangle (!) during repose ; anterior 

 slightly dilated at the apex of the costa, the hinder margin rounded, cilia 

 ample, the surface marked with radiated or stellate light and dark lines ; 

 posterior ovate-triangular, also with radiated lines : abdomen short, with a 

 small tuft at the apex in the males : legs rather long and slender. 



This singular genus may be instantly recognised by the pretty 



-j-Sp. 32. nebulalis. Alls anticis Jlavido-cinereis, maculis duabus strigaque ex- 

 terna obsoletis, posticis cinereis, ciliis albidis. 



Py. nebulalis. Hubner. Py. pi. 8. /. 51. — Haworth {!)— Steph. Catal. ii. 167. 

 No. 6835. 



Anterior wings yellowish-ash, with two spots and a streak on the hinder 



margin, obscure ; posterior ashy ; cilia whitish. 

 Haworth doubtingly considered this species as synonymous with the preceding, 



in which particular I followed him in my Catalogue ; but the true species 



does not appear to be indigenous. 



