YPONOMEUTID.E. — GLYPHIPTERYX. 271 



Genus CCCXLVII. — Glyphipteryx, Hilhner. 



Palpi drooping and divergent, slender ; longer than the head, a little curved, 

 and sparingly clothed with very short scales, the terminal johit nearly as 

 long as, and more slender than, the second, attenuated and acute : maxillae 

 short, and scaly at the base. Antennoe slender, as long as the wings, simple 

 in both sexes : head obovate, slightly produced in front, and clothed with 

 shining imbricated scales : eyes small, prominent : thorax not crested : wings 

 slightly deflexed during repose ; anterior sublanceolate-linear, and generally 

 with raised scales; the hinder margin with the tip of the costa and inner 

 margin deeply ciliated: posterior wings lanceolate, with long cilia: body 

 rather long and slender. 



The insects of this pretty genus, named as above and characterized 

 by Hiibner,* may be known by having the anterior wings adorned 

 with varied or embossed metaUic spots, generally on a tawny or orange 

 ground, the wings themselves terminating in a series of elongate 

 scales, which become gradually lost in the cilia, so that the hinder 

 margin is indefinite and rounded, the wings being sublanceolate ; 

 the palpi are curved and drooping, and the entire insect in general is 

 of a brilliant metallic hue : the larvae are subcutaneous. 



Sp. 1. Linneella. Alis anticis fulvo-aurantiacis basi apiceque atris, punctis 

 iribus elevutis argenteis. (Exp. Alar. 4§ — 6 lin.) 



Ph. Ti. Linneella. Linne. — Gl. Linneella. Curtis, v. iv. pi. 152. — (Ec. Lin- 

 neella. Steph. Catal. ii. 208. No. 7355. — Glyphipteryx, Hiibner. 



Anterior wings tawny-orange, with the base and apex black, the latter with a 

 metallic gloss; on the disc are three elevated hemispheric silvery dots, 

 placed in a triangle, and an obsolete interrupted line on the costa, with a 

 minute dot at the base also metallic : posterior wings fuscous, with a faint 

 metallic violet tinge; cilia dusky: antennae black, with the apex white. 



A local species, but found in plenty at times in the vicinity of 

 London, especially in Battersea-fields, Chelsea, and Kensington, 

 about the end of July and beginning of August : I have a splendid 

 series, which was taken in St. James's Park by Mr. B. R. Lewis. 

 " On hmes in St. James's Park in profusion, and on pales and in 

 gardens, Chelsea, sparingly." — Mr. Ingpen. 



* Hub. Ferzeich. Bekant. Schmeit. &;c.p. 421. 



