82 H AUSTELL AT A. — LEl'IDOPTERA. 



ployed to designate the present genus, which may be known from its 

 aUies by having the antennae strongly pectinated in the males and 

 faintly so in the females ; the anterior wings, like Lozotaenia, have a 

 transverse oblique fascia beyond the middle, and a cloud or spot on 

 the costa ; they are also slightly excised towards the tip of the costa, 

 and the hinder margin is very obliquely truncate. 



Sp. 1. Gerningiana. Alis anticis Jlavesceniibus, obsoletissiml' Julvo reticulatis, 

 fascia maculaque apicali brunneo-fuscescentibus. (Exp. Alar. 6 — 8 lin.) 



To. Gerningiana. Fabricius. — Am. Gerningiana. Steph. Catal. ii. 172. 

 A^o. 6880. 



Anterior wings flavescent, obscurely reticulated with tawny, with a broad 

 oblique chocolate-brown fascia rather beyond the middle, well defined 

 anteriorly, but shaded off posteriorly to the hinder margin, with a rather 

 distinct streak of yellowish on the costa, having a brown spot at the apex : 

 posterior wings fuscous. 



The base of the anterior wings is sometimes brownish. 



Not found, I believe, within the metropolitan district, the nearest 

 locahty I am aware of being the neighbourhood of Birmingham, 

 where the insect has been taken in profusion, in June : it has also 

 occurred in other parts of the north of England, and in Scotland. 



"fSp. 2. Walkerana. Alis anticis Jusco-cinereis aut griseis, macula triangulari 

 foscicpformis versus apicem subferruginea, in qua litura oblonga grisea. (Exp. 

 Alar. 8 lin.) 



Am. Walkerana. Curtis, v. v. pi. 209. — Steph. Catal. ii. 172. A'n. 6881. 



" Pale greyish-ochre, sometimes fuscous : superior (anterior) wings pale, 

 sometimes dark grey, fuscous towards the base, with a large triangular sub- 

 ferruginous spot, broadest at the costa, upon which is an oblique oblong 

 grey spot, and a small one at the apex : inferior (posterior) wings ochra- 

 ceouSj spotted with fuscous, darkest at the base." — Curtis, I. c. 



Hitherto found, I believe, only near New Lanark, in Scotland, by 

 Mr. Walker. 



Gexus CCLXXIX.— Ditula* mihi. 



Palpi slightly remote and divergent, somewhat ascending, thickly clothed with 

 scales, subclavate, the terminal joint exposed; basal joint depending, second 



* SirvXog, duplicem gibbum babcns. 



