236 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



This genus differs from the foregoing by having the palpi con- 

 cealed in dense tufts of hair, the body generally pilose, the anterior 

 wings in the male with the costa curved, the disc with three elevated 

 nervures, two of them longitudinal, the other transverse ; the scales 

 on the wings are rather loosely placed and appear rough ; the female 

 has wings about half the length of the body, which last is pilose and 

 robust. The genus was first divided by Mr. Curtis : Hubner places 

 it with Cheimophila. 



Sp. 1. Salicella. Alis ant ids fusco-purpurascentibus, maculis duabus magnis 

 roseis confluentibus, intersectis fasciis duabus, abbreviatis, nigris, (Exp. Alar. 

 $, 8—9 lin.) 



Ti. Salicella. Hubner.—N. G. Salicella. Steph. CataL ii. 201. No. 7259. 



Anterior wings purplish-brown, with the costa itself, and an irregular blotch, 

 extending from near the base of the disc to beyond the middle rosy ; this 

 blotch is divided by a slight dusky-black fascia before, and another behind, 

 the middle, neither of which extends to the inner margin : posterior wings 

 and cilia fuscous. Female subapterous, reddish ; rudimentary wings with 

 a narrow streak in the middle, and a second on the hinder margin dusky ; 

 cilia rosy. 



Not very abundant : found in the autumn in the woods within the 

 metropolitan district, and also in the New Forest and in Devonshire. 



Genus CCCXXXVI. — Cheimophila, Hubner. 



Palpi rather long, slightly divaricating, slender, recurved, pilose at the base, 

 the apical joint exposed and sparingly covered with scales, somewhat 

 elongate, acute : maxillae very short. Antenna: in the males rather long, 

 pilose, and pubescent both within and without; simple in the females: head 

 small, with a tuft of scales between the antennse : eyes moderate, globose : 

 thorax slender, not crested: wings smooth, glossy, slightly decumbent 

 during repose ; anterior rather elongate, sublanceolate-truncate, of simple 

 colours, and destitute of markings ; cilia rather short ; posterior ovate- 

 triangular, faintly waved towards the apex ; cilia short : females wingless : 

 body rather long, subcylindric in the male, with a tuft at the apex ; very 

 broad, ovate, depressed and obtuse, with a small tuft in the females : leg.i 

 rather stout. 



The males of this genus may be known by the simplicity of 

 colouring of their anterior wings, which have only two very obscure 

 dusky spots, placed thus : towards the apex, they are elongate and 

 smooth ; the palpi arc slender and recurved ; the antennas rather long 



