YPONOMKUTID.E. — APLOTA. 2i?5 



Genus CCCXXVII.— Aplota* mihi. 



Palpi two, elongate, divaricating, compressed, clavate, densely clothed above 

 and below with lengthened hair-like scales, which almost conceal the ter- 

 minal joint, the latter acute and elongate : maxillw short. AntenncE rather 

 long and slender, each joint producing a fine short whirl of hairs : head 

 globose, small, clothed with imbricated scales: eyes moderate, projecting, 

 globose : thorax subovate, not crested : wings entire ; anterior sublinear, 

 obliquely truncate on the hinder margin, the disc without fasciae, and only 

 obscurely marked; posterior wings small, with the apex obtuse; cilia 

 moderate : body short, rounded, slightly acuminate at the apex, with a very 

 small tuft : legs moderate ; posterior rather long and stout, with two pair of 

 long spurs. 



From the preceding genus, with which I had associated the only 

 species in my Catalogue, the present not only differs in wanting the 

 bristle-like appendage towards the apex of the palpi, but tlie structure 

 of the latter is different ; the wings are of a plain dingy hue, nearly 

 destitute of any markings, having only some obscure black spots on 

 the disc. 



Sp. 1. palpella. Alls anticis fuscis punctis tribus nigris, stria obsoletissima 

 communi dilutiore. (Exp. Alar. 6 — 6§ lin.) 



Yp. palpellus. Haworth.— Ma. palpella. Steph. Catal. ii. 129. A^o. 7239. 



Anterior wings fuscous, with a very obscure golden tint in certain lights, 

 arising from minute atoms, a geminated black dot before, and a single larger 

 one behind, the middle; on the inner margin is a very indistinct pale 

 fuscous streak : posterior wings dusky ; cilia all deep black. 



Apparently extremely rare : I remember to have seen two speci- 

 mens only, both of which (the sexes) I possess : one of them I found 



" AjrXoruff simpliciter. 

 •fSp. 5. aristella. " Alis anticis albidis lined argentea, palpis porrectis capite 

 longioribus aristatis." — Linne. (Exp. Alar. — lin.) 



Ph. Ti. aristella. Linne.— Turton(\)— Ma.? anstella. Steph. Catal. ii. 199. 



No. 7238, note. 

 *' Wings convoluted, whitish, with a longituilinal silvery line in the middle : 



palpi twice a§ long as the head and thorax, stout, hirsute, porrected, with a 



bristle near the apex." 



Turton indicates this as British, but I am not aware that it has ever been 

 found in England. 



Haustelt.ata. Vol. IV., Sept. 31st, 1834. p 



