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e. Anterior wings rather narrow, with very obscure transverse lines, casta unih 



a pate triangular spot ; posterior /jg/c, discolor ous : — Cuoesia,^). Huh. 



Sp. 27. Holmiana. Alis anticis Ititto-fcrrugineis, parum ustidatis, macula angu- 

 lata nivea medio cosiaj posticisfuscis. (Exp. Alar. 1 — r lin.) 



Ph, To. Holmiana. LinnL — Lo. Holmiana. Steph. Catal. ii. 171. No. 6878. 



Anterior wings of a rusty-Iuteous, with slight ustnlated clouds, sprinkled 

 towards the apex with some minute lead-coloured dots ; costa with a large 

 angulated snow-white spot; cilia luteous-orange : posterior wings fuscous; 

 cilia rather ashy. 



Caterpillar dull yellow, with reddish head, and a brownish dorsal spot, the 

 eighth segment slightly verrucose; it feeds on the apple and pear: the 

 imago appears towards the end of June or beginning of July. 



Abundant in gardens and hedges, in the neighbourhood of the 

 metropolis at the end of June and the beginning of July, especially 

 in the vicinity of Hertford. 



f. Anterior wings rather broad, with faint transverse fasciw, costa with an 



irregular white blotch : posterior ^a/e ; — Episagma? Hiibner. 



Sp. 28. Schreberiaiia ? Alis anticis ferrugineo-griseis, macula costali trigona 

 alba, posticis fuscescentihus. (Exp. Alar. 85 lin.) 



To. Schreberiana. Linnc? — Lo. Schreberiana ? Steph. Catal. ii. 172. No. 6879. 



Anterior wings of a rusty griseous, with an obscure darker oblique fascia 

 behind the middle, preceded by a large snow-white triangular blotch on the 

 costa; on the hinder margin itself is a faint palish streak: posterior wings 

 brownish, with the base paler. 



Apparently very rare: I have seen but two examples, one of them 

 in my own cabinet : they wei'e both taken in Cornwall. 



Genus CCLXXVIII.— Philedoxe, Hiibner. 



Palpi somewhat approximating, rather long, porrected horizontally, thickly 

 clothed with scales, subulate; basal joint small, depending, second elon- 

 gate, horizontal, tumid above, terminal slender, somewhat drooping : 

 maxillce short. Antenna remote, bipectinated in the males, the pectinations 

 diminishing in length at each end, each pectination irregularly pilose, either 

 on one or both sides : head rather broad : eyes small : thorax slender, not 

 tufted : wings considerably deflexed during repose ; anterior rather long, 

 obliquely trvmcate at the apex, and faintly excised on the costa, with a 

 transverse dark fascia : posterior subtriangular : abdomen slender, with a 

 tuft at the apex : legs short, posterior longest. 



Philedone having the priority of Amphisa is necessarily here em- 

 Hausteixata. Vol. IV. 30th June, 1834. f 



