124 HAUSTKLLATA. I.KJPlDOf TKRA. 



smaller somewhat ocellated one near the anal angle, with a slightly silvery 



margin, and three minute central black dots: posterior whigs deep brown. 

 The wings vary in colour, being either paler or redder, sometimes ashy ; the 



markings occasionally very mdistinct, at others very bold and well 



defined. 



Not uncommon ; found in June within the metropolitan district, 

 and in the New Forest, Norfolk, &c. 



Sp. 16. rufana. Alis aniicis riifis, immaculatis, costa pallida, macula subocellari 

 obsoletissima ad angulam ani. (Exp. Alar. 9 lin.) 



Se. rufana. Steph. Catal ii. 180. No. 6983. 



Anterior wings narrow, deep immaculate tawny red^ the costa pale; on the 

 hinder margin near the anal angle is a very obscure somewhat ocellated 

 silvery spot, with three fulvescent lines in the middle : cilia pale tawny : 

 posterior wings brown. 

 Found at Darenth in July. 



Genus CCXC. — Bactra milii. 



Palpi longer than the head, rather large, compressed, porrected horizontally, 

 clothed with loose elongate scales, which conceal the terminal joint: maxiUa 

 short. Antennae short, slender, slightly pubescent within in the males, 

 simple in the females : head small, enveloped in a dense mass of elongate loose 

 scales : eyes small : thorax slender, not crested : wings placed horizontally 

 during repose; anterior elongate triangular, somewhat linear, with the 

 hmder margin obliquely truncate ; the disc nearly destitute of markings, or 

 having only some indistinct longitudinal dashes ; posterior ovate-triangular, 

 entire, with long cilia : body long and slender, with a large tuft at the apex 

 in the males, and a small one in the females : legs rather long and slender. 



The insects of this genus may be known by the extreme simplicity 

 of their colouring, the anterior wings being nearly destitute of 

 markings ; they are very narrow, somewhat linear, and have the 

 hinder margin obliquely truncate, with the anterior angle acute ; the 

 palpi are rather large and thickly enveloped in scales : most of the 

 species frequent damp situations, where rushes abound. 



Sp. 1. egenana. Alis anticis sordide rufescentibus, postice atomis perpaucis 



minutissimis fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 7§ lin.) 

 To. egenana. Haivorth. — Ap. egenana. Steph. Catal. ii. 180. No. 6985. 



Anterior wings dull reddish, with a few very minute brown dots towards the 

 hinder margin : posterior whitish-brown. 



Found, but rarely, in damp situations, near Coombc wood, in 

 June. 



