1 M} HAUSTELLATA. LEriBOPTEK A. 



Genus CCXCIX. — Peronea, Curtis. 



Palpi rather long, parallel, porrected horizontally, compressed, tumid in the 

 middle above ; densely clothed with short scales, the apex pilose, and con- 

 cealing the terminal joint, which is short and slender: maxillce very short. 

 Antennae short, faintly serrated, simple in both sexes : head small, with a 

 loose tuft of scales above: eyes prominent: tJiorax moAeraie, slightly crested 

 behind: wings entire; anterior rounded at the base, the costa rather 

 distinctly emarginate and ciliated, the hinder margin faintly repanded ; disc 

 with scattered elevated scales, chiefly near the posterior angle, and in the 

 typical species with a large elevated tuft in the centre ; cilia rather short : 

 posterior wings ample, ovate-triangular, scarcely emarginate at the apex; 

 cilia rather long: body somewhat long and slender, stoutest in the females, 

 with a small tuft at the apex : legs moderate, short ; anterior clothed with 

 very short scales, not pilose. 



Like the insects of the preceding genus, much uncertainty exists as 

 to the Umits of the respective species ; the typical ones may be 

 instantly recognised by having a large bundle of elevated scales 

 nearly in the centre of the anterior wings, the costa of which is 

 rounded at the base, emarginated slightly in the middle, and faintly 

 ciliated, with rough scales ; the less typical species want the tuft of 

 scales on the middle of the winff. but have small scattered elevated 

 ones towards the base and hinder margin ; the costa is less promi- 

 nently rounded, and the prevalent colours are more diversified; the 

 species are autumnal, making their appearance about August, though 

 a few specimens are occasionally met with earlier. 



A. Anterior wings with a large elevated bundle of scales on the disc, a little 



beyond the middle : — Lopas, Hubner.* 

 Sp. 1. profanana. Alis anticis griseo-ferrugineis,fasciculo magno medio elevato 

 limboque crassiore ustulatis: thorace fusco. (Exp. Alar. 9 — 9§ lin.) 



* As in Sarrothripus, diversity of ophiion exists as to the number of the 

 species in this section, which mainly corresponds with Lopas of Hiibner, and 

 1 really am at a loss to define their extent, as the numerous varieties which 

 each apparent species are liable to form a most perplexing question to resolve; 

 nevertheless, upon an examhiation of about 500 specimens, I have come to the 

 conclusion that they may be divided into the following species, which appear 

 as it were divisible into triads; each variation in the colour of the central 

 tuft including three diversities in the general colours, one of which has usually 

 a broad pale vitta on the inner margin. 



