220 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



is a fine short black streak near the anterior apex of the hinder margin, and 

 frequently two others on the disc between the latter and the costal spot ; 

 cilia dusky : posterior wings brownish, shining, with darker cilia. 



Not very uncommon : found towards the middle of August at 

 Coombe and Darenth woods, also at Hertford, near Dover, in Dorset- 

 shire, Norfolk, Suffolk, &c. 



Genus CCCXXIV, — Cleodora* mihi. 



Palpi two, very long and divaricating, slightly recurved, densely clothed with 

 rather long scales, which extend a short distance up the base of the terminal 

 joint, the latter shorter than the second, and in its natural state clothed with 

 short scales, and ovate-acute : maxillw rather long and scaly. Antennas 

 slender, simple, stouter and with the joints very distinct in the males : head 

 small, rounded ; eyes small, globose : thorax ovate, not crested : wings 

 narrow, anterior elongate, of plain pale ochreous colours, sometimes with 

 obscure darker longitudinal, but never transverse, marks ; cilia rather long ; 

 posterior small, sinuated on the hinder margin towards the apex; cilia 

 moderately long : body long and slender, with a small tuft at the apex in the 

 males, stouter and conical in the females : posterior legs rather long, with 

 very long scales on the tibiae within. 



These insects — of which the first species forms a portion of the 

 genus Mesophleps of Hiibner — are remarkable for the simplicity of 

 their long anterior wings, which are mostly of pale ochreous or reddish 

 tints, without transverse markings, having only occasionally a few 

 longitudinal darker clouds or dashes ; the palpi are long, divaricate 

 considerably, and have the terminal joint rather thick ; the posterior 

 wings are slightly waved towards the apex of the hinder margin, and 

 the cilia are not very long. 



Sp. 1. Silacella. Alis anticis cinereo-ochraceis punctis duobus minutissimis 



fuscis, posticis fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 7 — 9 lin.) 

 Ti. Silacella. mibner.—N. G. Silacella. Steph. Catal. ii. 198. No. 7225. 

 Anterior wings ochreous-ash, with two very minute remote brownish dots on 



the disc, one placed before the other ; the inner margin slightly paler than 



the disc : posterior wings fuscous, shining. 

 Rather variable in size and slightly in colour. 



Not common : taken very rarely near London towards the end of 

 July, but more frequently in the New Forest. 



Cleodora nomen proprium. 



