288 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



also broadish, but have long cilia ; the palpi arc drooping, incurved, 

 and stoutish ; the head not very smooth ; the body rather short and 

 slender : — the species are found in damp situations. 



Sp. 1. auritella. Alis anticis niveis, fascia iniermpta medio, maculaqne posticii 

 fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 34 li»-) 



Ti. auritella. Hubner. Ti. pi. 65. f. 441.— N. G. auritella. Steph. Catal. ii. 211. 

 No. 7393. — Leucoptera, Hubner. 



Anterior wings snow-white^, glossy, with a very much interrupted brown fascia 

 in the middle, composed of a distinct triangular blotch on the costa, and a 

 smaller one on the inner margin, connected by a broken fuscous line ; on the 

 apex of the hinder margin is an irregular fuscous spot; cilia snow-white: 

 posterior wings ashy-white, cilia fuscescent. 

 Rare: the only pair I have seen were taken in two different years, 



in June, at Monks' wood, in Huntingdonshire. 



Sp. 2. Cygnipennella. Alis omnibus ciliisque albissimis, nitidis, immactdatis. 



(Exp. Alar. 4§ lin.) 

 Ti. Cygnipennella. Huhner. — N. G. Cygnipennella. Steph. Catal. ii. 211. 



No. 7394. — HATLOrTiLiA, Hubner. 

 All the wings and cilia of a beautiful clear shining snowy-white, without spot 



or marking. 



Also very rare : I have taken it in June, at Dover, and also in the 

 beginning of July, in the fens near Whittlesea, in Hunts. 



Sp. 3. semialbella. Alis anticis ciliisque niveis, nitidis, immaculatis, post ids 



fuscescentibus, ciliis albis. (Exp. Alar. 4i — 5 lin.) 

 N. G. semialbella. Steph. Catal. ii. 212. No. 7395. 

 Anterior wings and cilia fine clear immaculate white; posterior brownish, 



with elongate white cilia. 



Found at Ripley in June 1827, at that period not uncommonly. 



Sp. 4. triatomea. Alis anticis niveis atomis tribus nigris. posticis fuscescentibus. 

 (Exp. Alar. 3^ lin.) 



Po. triatomea. Haworth. — N. G. triatomea. Stejih. Catal. ii. 219. N'o. 7396. 



Anterior wings snow-white, with three black dots towards the hinder margin, 

 placed in a triangle, but very inconspicuous without a lens, two placed lon- 

 gitudinally on the disc, the other towards the hinder angle alternating with 

 the first : posterior wings brownish. 

 Found in Norfolk and near London, in June, but apparently very 



rare. 



