162 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



scales, and generally ferruginous or whitish, with dark costal marks; 



posterior ample, the hinder margin waved and acute: Z»oJ«/ rather short, 



slender, with a tuft at the apex in the males. 



Like the foregoing genus, the anterior wings in this have the base 

 rounded and dilated, and the costa sHghtly ciliated, but they are 

 nearly destitute of any raised tufts of scales, a few scattered ones 

 only being present : in colour they are of pale rusty tints, whitish or 

 ashy, with distinct spots or blotches on the costa : the palpi are very 

 similar externally to those of the last section of Peronea, but the 

 smoothness of the anterior wings, and their less dilated base, exclu- 

 sively of their colouring, sufficiently remove them : most of the species 

 are extremely variable, and I am not certain but that I have confused 

 some distinct ones amongst the numerous suites of varieties that are 

 in ray cabinet. They form the genus Paramesia of my Catalogue. 



A. Anterior wings ferruginous, the costa very slightly emarginate: — 

 AcLERis, Hilbner. 



Sp. 1. subtripunctulana. Alls anticis pallide ferrugineis reticulatis maculin 



iribus subconfluentibus medio marginis crassioris, posticis pallidix. (Exp. Alar. 



5— 6§ lin.) 

 Pa. subtripunctulana. Steph. Catal. ii. J 87. No. 7089. 

 Anterior wings pale ferruginous, reticulated with a darker shade ; the costa 



with a central blotch in the middle, composed of three dark rusty spots 



united by a paler streak : posterior wings pale fuscous. 

 The base of the anterior wings is sometimes dark ferruginous. 



Taken, but rarely, near London in August : found more 

 abundantly in the New Forest, and in Devonshire. 



Sp. 2. gnomana. Alis anticis ferrugineis plus minus reticulatis punctuUs tribus 

 obsoletissimis, quasi impressis, in triangulo medio costoe. (Exp. Alar. 

 6i— 8i lin.) 



Ph. To. gnomana. Linn^. — Pa. gnomana. Steph. Catal. ii. 187. No. 7090. 



Anterior wings ferruginous, more or less distinctly reticulated with a darker 

 shade, with three very obscure, dusky, or blackish spots on the middle of 

 the costa, placed in a triangle, and in some examples scarcely visible, but in 

 others very distinct, and occasionally united by a dark line, so as to form a 

 curve, more or less solid, which causes the insect to appear very variable : 

 posterior wings whitish, or brownish : — amongst the varieties, the Lep. 

 aspersana of Curtis, fo. 440, appears to have a place. 



A very common insect in woods and on heaths, in hedges, gardens. 



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