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rudimentary maxillae, or wanting them entirely — added to their elon- 

 gation, the slender pubescent antennae, and recurved slender palpi ; 

 the females are winged, and in general rather smaller than the males. 



Sp. 1. Avellanella. Alis anticis albidis, aut cinereis, aiomis saturatioribus stri- 



guque longitudinali ramosa nigra. (Exp. Alar. 11 — 13 lin.) 

 Ti. Avellanella. Hiibner.—Ep. Avellanella. Steph. Catal. ii. 202. No. 7264. 



Anterior wings whitish or ash-coloured, sprinkled with darker atoms, with a 

 ramose longitudinal black streak, occasionally interrupted ; on the hinder 

 margin ; and sometimes at the apex of the costa, are some black or dusky- 

 spots : posterior wings brownish-ash. 



Slightly variable in colour, some examples being darker than others. 



Apparently very rare ; the only specimens I have seen have all 

 been taken in the vicinity of Birch and Darenth woods, in the 

 autumn. 



Sp. 2. Steinkelnerana. Alis anticis cinereis, lined Jlexuosd atra disci, serieque 



postica punctorum nigrorum. (Exp. Alar. 9 J — 11 lin.) 

 Py. Steinkelnerana. Fahricius. — Ep. Steinkelnerana. Steph. Catal. ii. 202. 



No. 7265. 

 Anterior wings ashy-brown, with a distinct flexuous longitudinal black streak, 



sometimes a little interrupted on the disc, the latter also with a few remote 



minute brownish spots ; on the hinder margin is a row of black dots : 



posterior wings immaculate, dusky-ash. 



Not very uncommon in hedges towards the end of March : at 

 Hertford and Coombe wood I have occasionally taken it. 



Gekus CCCXXXIX. — Anesychia, Huhner. 



Palpi two, long, slender, ascending, slightly recurved, and somewhat divari- 

 cating, clothed with very short scales, and appearing naked, the terminal 

 joint very much exposed, slanting outwards, very slender, elongate, and 

 acute : maxilla; stout, spiral. Antennae simple, finely pubescent within in the 

 males : head transverse, thickly clothed with longish scales : eyes large, pro- 

 minent : thorax broad, not crested : wings ample, convoluted during repose ; 

 anterior linear-lanceolate, faintly truncate behind ; coloured white and 

 black, the latter generally disposed in more or less interrupted longitudinal 

 streaks or rows ; posterior very large ; cilia all moderate : body slender, 

 rather stout and conical in the females. Larva solitary, slightly pubescent : 

 pupa inclosed in an ovate firm cocoon. 



The present genus — which I had called ISIclanoleuca in my Cata- 

 logue — not only differs from the following by having the palpi 



