1C4 HACSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Py. scabrana. Fahricius. — Le. scabraiia. Sieph. Catal. ii. 188. No. 7099. 

 Anterior wings rough, of a greenish-ash colour, with very minute scarcely 



darker scattered atoms, and three rather distinct brownish spots on the 



middle of the costa, placed in a triangle, the inner (or dorsal) one the 



darkest : posterior wings brownish. 

 In some examples the three costal spots are very obscure; in others very 



distinct and clear. 



Rather scarce : taken at Darenth and Birch woods, and occasionally 

 at Coombe, as well as in the New Forest, in July and August. 



Genus CCCI. — Leftogramma, Curtis. 



Palpi porrected horizontally, nearly parallel, clavate, thickly clothed with 

 short scales, with the apical joint exposed and obtuse : maxillas rather long, 

 vnih. a minute palpus at the base. Antenna rather short, stoutest and 

 pubescent within in the males : head small, with a tuft of scales between 

 the antennae : eyes globose : thorax the same, with a faint angulated crest 

 behind : wings entire ; anterior oblong-trigonate, with numerous elevated 

 tufts of scales on the disc, slightly disposed in lines ; the costa rounded at 

 the base, and clothed with long rough scales, which form an angular pro- 

 jection near the middle; hinder margin faintly emarginate, forming a 

 slightly acute anterior angle, the hinder angle rounded ; posterior wings 

 ample, the hinder margin waved and slightly acute : body short and slender, 

 depressed, and with a tuft at the apex in the males. 



The insects of this pretty genus — which is synonymous with 

 Oxigrapha of Hiibner — are remarkable for their lively bright green 

 anterior wings having their surface sprinkled with large tufts of 

 elevated scales, disposed somewhat in fasciae; the costa is considerably 

 waved, and is very strongly ciliated with rough scales at the base, 

 terminating abruptly, and forming a slight angle, near the middle : 

 the species are rather large, extremely prone to vary, and appear in 

 the autumn. 



Sp. 1 . literana. Alis anticis perviridibus, scabris, characteribus atris, posticis 



fuscescentibus. (Exp. Alar. 8J — 9§ lin.) 

 Ph. To. literana. Linne. — Donovan, x. pi. 355. /. 2. — Le. literana. Steph. 



Catal. ii. 187. No. 7094. 

 Anterior wings rough, with elevated scales, of a fine bright pale grassy-green, 



the costa anteriorly, and the disc, with various very short deep black lines 



and streaks, and the extreme hinder margin with a row of minute black 



dots : posterior wings brownish. 

 Extremely variable : some examples have a large deep black patch of elevated 



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