126 HAUSTEI.LATA. LEPIDOPTEKA. 



Genus CCXCI. — Ablabia, HUbner. 



Palpi longer than the head, rather slender, compressed, depending, densely 

 clothed with scales, which are elongate above, the terminal joint long and 

 slender, drooping, and scarcely exposed: maxillcE short. Antennas long, 

 rather slender, simple in both sexes, most robust in the males : head 

 moderate, with a slight tuft between the antennae : eyes large : ihoi-ax 

 moderate, not crested: wings deflexed during repose, anterior glossy, 

 elongate, entire, acutely truncate on the hinder margin, the disc plain, with 

 a few dusky clouds, cilia long ; posterior ample, ovate-triangular, with long 

 slender cilia : abdomen rather long and slender, with a large tuft at the 

 apex in the males, rather stouter and obtuse in the females : legs slender. 



Ablabia differs botli in the structure of its palpi and in general 

 habit from Bactra, -with which genus Mr. Curtis unites it in his 

 Guide, but in his genera it constitutes a portion of his genus Cne- 

 phasia, this shifting being a svifficient indication of the propriety of 

 detailing it ; from the former it differs by having the wings very 

 glossy, and from the latter by having them nearly destitute of 

 markings, exclusively of the diversity in the palpi. 



Sp. 1. quadripunctana. Alis anticis sordide lutescentibus nitidis punclis obsoletis 

 fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 8—11 lin. ) 



To. quadripunctana. Haivoi-th. — G. N. 4-punctana. Steph. Catal. ii. 180. 

 No. 6990. 



Anterior wings dull lutescent, or pale ochreous, shining, with about four 

 obsolete remote brown spots, placed somewhat tetragonally, and on the 

 hinder margin a few minute brown dots; cilia ashy-white : posterior leaden- 

 brown, glossy ; cilia of a satiny-white. 



In some examples the spots on the anterior wings are nearly obsolete; in others 

 they are very evident, and the remainder of the wing is more or less spotted 

 or tesselated with brown : the former varieties constitute Cn. Cautiana. — 

 Curtis.— Stcph. Catal. ii. 180. No. 6991. 



Not a very common species, being local : it is, however, not 

 unfrequent near Dover, where it occurs sometimes in the month of 

 August in plenty ; last season I found it there in July. " Scotland." 

 — J. C. Dale, Esq. 



Genus CCXCII. — Cnephasia, Curtis. 



Palpi shorter than the head, ascending, densely clothed with long scales, 

 especially on the iipper edge of the second joint, the terminal joint exposed : 



