226 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIUOPTERA. 



in the beginning of July 1827, in a field of trefoil near Ripley ; the 

 other I obtained from Mr. Haworth's collection. 



Genus CCCXXVIII. — Enicostoma* mihi. 



Palpi two, much longer than the head, recurved, divaricating, densely clothed 

 with long scales from the base nearly to the apex, leaving the upper portion 

 of the terminal joint exposed, slender and acute, and apparently naked : 

 maxillce rather short. Antennoe moderate, rather slender, simple in the 

 females, each joint faintly produced in the males: head small, clothed with 

 imbricated scales, which form an acute protuberance in front : ei/es small ; 

 thorax not crested: wings scarcely deflexed during repose; anterior sublan- 

 ceolate, with raised tufts of scales on the disc ; posterior ovate-triangular, 

 all with shortish cilia : body rather short, with a small tuft at the apex, 

 carinated down the back, rath er stouter and obtuse in the females. 



In this genus, as well as in the next, the palpi form a most conspi- 

 cuous object, being very long, and thickened nearly to the apex with 

 elongate loose hair-like scales, the tip of the terminal joint being 

 exposed ; they are recurved and divaricate : from the following genus 

 the present may be known by the wings being of sombre hues, the 

 anterior destitute of metallic ornament, but having some small black 

 tufts of elevated scales ; the cilia of the posterior wings are short. 



Sp. 1. Thunbergana. Alis aniicis obscure fusco-cinereis, punctis quatuor elevatis 

 fasciculatis atris. (Exp. Alar. 8 — 9§ lin.) 



Py. Thunbergana. Fabricius. — En. Thunbergana. Steph. Catal. ii. 199. 

 No. 7240. 



Anterior wings obscure fuscous-ash, with two approximating elevated black 

 tufts of scales before the middle and two others behind ; the latter smallest, 

 and sometimes one or both obsolete ; cilia fuscous : posterior wings rather 

 paler, with still paler cilia. 



Not very common: found in gardens within the metropolitan 

 district in June ; also in Devonshire. 



Genus CCCXXIX. — Alabonia, Huhner. 



Palpi two, nearly as long as the body, greatly divaricating, clothed about 

 two-thirds of their length with long, loosely placed scales, which extend 



* EvtKoe singularis, arona os. 



