218 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



Genus CCCXXI. — Lofhonotus* mihi. 



Palpi four ; labial long, slender, divergent, recurved over the head, clothed 

 with elongate scales, which are prolonged nearly to the apex of the terminal 

 joint, which is very slender and longer than the second: maxillce rather long, 

 with a short pair of biarticulate palpi. Antennae slender, slightly pubescent, 

 rather long, subserrate at the apex : head small, rounded, with depressed 

 scales on the front : eyes moderate : thorax slender : wings narrow ; anterior 

 subfalcate at the apex, the inner margin with three fascicles of scales, as in 

 the typical Notodontidae ; posterior wings very narrow, with extremely 

 long cilia: body slender, attenuated to the apex. 



This singular genus is well characterized, not only by its narrow 

 subfalcate anterior wings, but by having their inner margin adorned 

 with three fascicles of elongate scales, resembling the appendages on 

 the same part of those of the typical Notodontidae ; the palpi are four 

 in number ; the labial long and recurved, the maxillary minute. I 

 have seen but one specimen of the genus. 



Sp. 1. fasciculelhis. Pi,ate 39. J". 1. — Alis anticis cinereo-f users, alhido pul- 

 verulentis, nebulis fasciaque media obsoletd nigris. (Exp. Alar. 63 lin.) 



Lo. fasciculellus. Steph. Catal. ii. 198. A^o. 7222. 



Anterior wings ashy-brown, with whitish atoms, a blackish mark at the base 

 of the costa, and an indistinct fascia of the same in the middle, widest on the 

 costa; on the disc behind this is a series of black lines, interrupted by white; 

 on the extreme tip is a reddish blush, and on the inner margin are three 

 reddish fascicles of hair-like projecting scales, with blackish tips; cilia 

 fuscous, with three blackish lines : posterior wings fuscous, with paler cilia : 

 abdomen and legs dusky, the latter with pale rings. 



The only example of this pretty insect which I have seen was 

 taken in July 1824 near Whittlesea Mere. 



Genus CCCXXII.— AcRiAfTwiAi. 



Palpi apparently stout and divaricating, the terminal joint acute. Antennas 

 shortish and simple: head moderate: thorax subovate: tvings entire; 

 anterior rather long, linear, the apex dilated and rounded, the costa with a 

 circular notch in the middle, cilia moderate ; posterior rather short, sub- 

 acute, with shortish cilia: posterior legs long. 



The above insufficient character is drawn up from Donovan's 



* Ao^oc crista, I'lurof dorsum. -t Acria noraen oppidum. 



