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AntennoB rather short, slender in the females, stouter and a little pubescent 

 within in the males : head small, with a tuft on the front and between the 

 antennae: eyes large, subglobose: thorax robust, with a crest behind: ivings 

 deflexed; anterior long, slightly dilated at the base of the costa, and faintly- 

 waved at the tip, hinder margin a little rounded, not emarginate at the apex, 

 the disc without distinct fasciae, with a pale red or rust-coloured ground ; 

 posterior ample, faintly emarghiate at the apex : body rather short and stout, 

 with a slight tuft at the apex in both sexes: legs short, posterior longest and 

 stoutest. 



The crested thorax of these insects forms a rather conspicuous 

 character in this family, as few of the genera are distinguished by 

 this peculiarity; their plain rounded anterior wings, which are 

 destitute of defined fasciae, and which have a somewhat raised pale 

 smooth dot on the disc towards the apex, will enable the student to 

 discriminate them from Ditula, and the other genera with the thorax 

 crested behind. 



Sp. 1. ministranus. Alls anticis sericeo nitidis ferrugineis, hasifasciaquepostica 

 Jlavicantihus, punctoque postico alhido. (Exp. Alar. 9 — 10 lin.) 



Ph. To. ministrana. Linne. — Donovan, v. xii. pi. 380./. 2. — Lo ministranus. 

 Steph. Catal. ii. 184. No. 7034. 



Anterior wings with a rich silken gloss, deep ferruginous, especially on the 

 hinder margin, the base exteriorly and a broad indistinct dash on the hinder 

 margins yellowish ; on the disc posteriorly is a slightly raised whitish spot : 

 cilia bright ferruginous: posterior wings brown, with pale cilia. 



The anterior wings are sometimes entirely ferruginous, and the posterior some- 

 times palish at the base. 



Extremely abundant in some places, especially in the vicinity of 

 Dover, in June, but less frequent within the metropolitan district. 

 « Gibside."— G. Wailes, Esq. 



Sp. 2. subfascianus. Alls anticis J'usco ferrugineis,J'asciis duabus obsoletis palli- 

 dioribus. (Exp. Alar. 8 lin.) 



Lo. subfascianus. Steph. Catal. ii. 184. No. 7035. 



Anterior wings rusty-brown, with an indistinct pale fascia near the base before 

 the middle, with the edges waved, and a second very indistinct and consi- 

 derably abbreviated behind; cilia dusky: posterior wings pale fuscous, 

 with darker nervures : cilia dusky-ash. 



The only examples I have seen of this obscure, but distinct species, 

 were taken in the New Forest, in June. 



