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HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



B. Anterior wings pale, with an abbreviated oblique central fascia: — 

 Aphania, p. Huhner. 



Sp. 8. scriptana. AUs albidis cinereo suhnehulosis fascia media suhobliquu inier- 

 rupfaj'usco Tiigrd, lineula longitudinali atrd adnata, posticis fuscis. (Exp.AIar- 

 8— 9lin.) 



To. scriptana. Huhner. — Di. scriptana. StepK. Catal. ii. 172. No. 6889. 



Anterior wings ashy-white, slightly clouded with darker ash-colour, espe- 

 cially at the base and on the inner margin ; with an interrupted slightly 

 oblique central fascia, brownish-black from the costa to the middle of the 

 disc, where it is bounded by a short deep black longitudinal streak, from 

 thence to the inner margin ashy-black ; on the costa are a few ashy-brown 

 spots, and a row of the same placed obliquely on the hinder margin; cilia 

 spotted with ashy ; posterior wings pale fuscous. 



Not common ; taken occasionally within the metropolitan district 

 in July ; also in Devonshire. 



Sp. 9. semifasciana. Alis anticis fusco-cinereis, fasci& basi alteraque ahbreviata 

 media costali fuscis, lineola longitudinali atrd terminatd. (Exp. Alar. 8 — 9 lin.) 



To. semifasciana. Haworth. — Di. semifasciana. Steph. Catal. ii. 172. 

 No. 6890. 



Anterior wrings of a brownish ash, with an obscure darker fascia at the base, 

 and an abbreviated one, more distinct, in the middle of the costa, extending 

 only a short distance towards the disc and terminated by a short longitu- 

 dinal black line ; on the costa are a few dark ashy clouds : posterior wings 

 fuscous. 



Probably Ph. Tortrix Hartmanniana of Linne, ii. 878. — Treitschke considers 

 it the opposite sex of the preceding, but in this country the two insects are 

 found at different periods and remote from ea^h other. 



Rare : found occasionally in Kent in August, but more abundantly 

 in the New Forest : also in Battersea-fields. 



Genus CCLXXX. — Antithesia* mihi. 



Palpi short, ascending, subclavate, densely clothed with short, compact scales, 

 longest beneath, the apical joint scarcely exposed, obtuse: maxilla moderate. 

 Antenna simple in both sexes, slightly pubescent within in the males; head 

 small, with a tuft of scales between the antennae : eyes large, globose : thorax 

 subovate, with a bifid crest behind: wings deilexed during repose; anterior 

 broad, somewhat rounded on the hinder margin, the costa straight, colours 

 black and w^hite; posterior ovate-triangular, dusky: abdomen slender, with 



* AvTiOtaiQ oppositio. 



