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F. Anterior wings rather broad, brown, with two remote pale blotches, one 

 dorsal, the other on the disc : — Encelis: — Hubner. 



Sp. 23. aurana. Alis nigro-brunneis, anticis maculis duahus auraniiis. (Exp. 



Alar. 3— 5§ lin.) 

 Py. aurana. Fabricius. — Donov. ii. pi. 57, f. 2. — Ps. aurana. Steph. Catal. ii. 



176. No. 693S. 

 Wings black brown ; anterior with a quadrate common dorsal orange blotch, 



and a large rounded one towards the apex of the costa and the hinder 



margin : posterior wings black. 



Not very common ; found occasionally on umbelliferous flowers in 

 the vicinity of London : I have taken it at Ripley and Hertford, and 

 once rather plentifully at Darenth in June. 



Genus CCLXXXIV. — Steganoptycha* miki. 



Palpi longer than the head, porrected horizontally, clavate, densely clothed 



with scales, the terminal joint exposed acute: maxillcB short. Antenna: 



simple in both sexes, faintly pubescent within in the males : head small, 



subglobose, with a rounded mass of scales between the antennse : eyes small: 



thorax not crested : wings entire, anterior somewhat linear-triangular ; the 



base straight, and in the males reflected, with an elongate fascicle of hairs, 



usually concealed, but capable of expanding like a fan ; colours generally 



sombre, with a deeper band at the base, and a tendency to a pale blotch in 



the middle of the inner margin ; hinder margin slightly indented near the 



costa; posterior wings rather ample, faintly emarginated at the apex: 



abdomen rather long and slender : legs short and slender. 



The males of this genus, at least in the typical species, are well 



characterized by the peculiar process of hairs, which, during repose, 



lies concealed beneath the reflected base of the anterior wings, and 



which is capable of being extended in the form of a fan ; but both 



sexes have the anterior wings very narrow, of sombre hues, and very 



faintly emarginate on the hinder margin ; the head is somewhat 



globose, the thorax simple. 



Sp. 1. tetraquetrana, Alis anticis griseis, fascia basirhombed, punctutjue jx)stico 



viarginem tenuiorem versus foscis j posticis fuscescentibus. (Exp. Alar. 



7—lh lin.) 

 To. tetraquetrana. Hawortli. — St. tetracpietrana. Steph. Catal. ii. 176. 



ATq. 6940. 

 Anterior wings griseous, with a reddish tinge, with a rhomboid brown fascia 



at the base, most conspicuous on the inner margin, with faint brownish 



Srtyw tcgo, TTTvl plica. 



