190 H AUSTELL ATA. LI PIDOrTl'.RA. 



spot, which is sometimes produced into a short fascia, with a spot opposed 

 to it on the inner margin; cilia pale sulphur-colour: posterior wings 

 fuscous or black, cilia paler. 



Taken in the beginning of July in the marshes near Whittlesea 

 Mere ; also near Hertford and in Battersea fields, and in the Isle of 

 Wight. 



Sp. 8. Baumanniana. Alis anlicis subcinereis mactda baseos fasciisque duahus 

 angulatim approximatis interruptis cinnamomeis argenteo mai-ginatis, postice 

 punctis aliquot argenieis. (Exp. Alar. 5^ — 11 lin.) 



Py. Baumanniana. Fabricius. — Ar. Baumanniana. Steph. Catal. ii. 190. 

 No. 7126. 



Anterior wings somewhat ashy, with a large spot at the base of a reddish- 

 cinnamon tinge, an interrupted fascia in the middle, and another towards the 

 apex, placed obliquely to the first of the same colour, and faintly edged with 

 silver; the hinder margin with a few silvery spots: posterior wings 

 fuscous. 



Rather variable in colour, the wings being of a brighter or paler colour, and 

 the fasciae vary much, being sometimes very much interrupted, or at times 

 decussating: the size of the insect also varies greatly. 



Found, at the end of May and in June, near Darenth wood and 

 in the north of England, as well as in Scotland and in the New 

 Forest, but not very common. " Cramond and Raehills." — 

 Bev. W. Little. 



Genus CCCXIV. — Xanthosetia* mihi 



Palpi long, parallel, porrected horizontally in form of a beak, densely clothed 

 throughout with shortish scales, which end in a pencil, and conceal the ter- 

 minal joint, the latter minute: ma.r{llce very short. Antenna rather short, 

 robust in the males and pubescent within, slender and simple in the females : 

 head rather large, with a slight tuft on the forehead and crown : eyes large, 

 subglobose : thorax rather short, not crested : ivings entire ; anterior 

 elongate-triangidar, with the costa straight at the base, the hinder margin 

 slightly rounded, the anterior angle acute, the posterior rounded ; disc pale, 

 with a depressed paler portion, encircled by a darker ring at the apex, and 

 a raised point on the origin of the depression: posterior wings ample, 

 faintly waved on the hinder margin; cilia all short; bodij short, stoutish, 

 with a ridge down the back and a rather large tuft at the apex, very small 

 in the females. 



* Sai'Ooc flavus, 2>;e tinea. 



