204 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOFTERA. 



"Superior (anterior) wings purplish-castaneous, palest at the costa, with a 

 double irregular oval mark on the disc of a dirty-white colour ; abdomen 

 and inferior (posterior) wings pale fuscous; head, palpi, and legs pale 

 ochre." — Curtis, I. c. 



I believe the only specimens of this insect were taken in " July, at 

 Southchurch, Essex," by my late friend, E. Blunt, Esq., in memory 

 of whom its name was applied by Mr. Curtis. 



Sp. 24. purpurea. Alis anticis rufo-purpureis macula viagna costali fused, 

 pallide adnata; costd roseo punctata. (Exp. Alar. SJ — 6 lin.) 



De. purpurea. Haworih. — Steph. Catal. ii. 195. No. 7179. 



Anterior wings purplish-red ; the costa brownish, prettily and thickly dotted 

 with rose-colour, with a large dusky spot in the middle, obsoletely marbled 

 with whitish on each side : posterior wings brown. 



Sometimes the rosy, or the whitish, markings are wanting ; and occasionally 

 the anterior wings are entirely purplish-red and immaculate. 



Rather local : abundant occasionally in April near Hertford; also 

 found sometimes in the autumn : it occurs likewise in the New Forest 

 and in the north of England. 



Genus CCCXX. — Anacamfsis, Curtis. 



Palpi very long, slender, recurved, divaricating, thickly clothed with scales, 

 especially at the base, where they are very long, and form a more or less 

 conspicuous tuft within; the apical joint is exposed, and as long as the 

 other two iniited, very slender, and acuminated: maxillce short, stout. 

 Antennas moderate, simple, rather long and slender, similar in both sexes : 

 head small, clothed with hard scales : eyes moderate : thorax not crested : 

 wings incumbent during repose ; anterior linear-lanceolate, longer than the 

 body; posterior ovate-lanceolate, with very long cilia: body slightly 

 depressed, of the male with a small tuft at the apex, of the female elongate 

 and very acute : legs moderate ; hinder pair long and stout. 



There is considerable resemblance between this genus and the 

 preceding, but in the present the antennae and the anterior wings are 

 longer, the latter narrower, more lanceolate and obtusely rounded at 

 the tips, the posterior wings shorter, with longer cilia ; the body less 

 depressed ; the palpi more slender and divaricating ; and the mark- 

 ings on the anterior wings more irregular and confused. The genus, 

 in its present state, is a complete magazine for all sorts of stragglers 

 with recurved palpi and simply coloured wings, but I have not 

 ventured to l)rcak it up : — in it are embraced the following genera 



