298 H AUSTELL ATA. l^El'IDOPTERA. 



" Fuscous, with a pale reddish tinge ; superior (anterior) wings with a brown 

 flame-like space along the centre (narrowed at the base), above which is a 

 short narrow ochraceous stripe, five or six minute brown spots forming a 

 curved line near the posterior margin, upon which there are seven minute 

 black spots, alternating with the nervures, which are pale, changing to white 

 towards the costa, the internal margin sprinkled with dark spots: inferior 

 (posterior) wings rather pale, their cilia whitish." — Curtis, I. c. 



Said to have been taken near Lewisham, towards Lee, in July. 



f Sp. 2. sericea. Alis anticis obfusis sericeis rufescente-ochraceis, fusco minufmi 

 atomosis strigaquemarginali pundorumfuscorum. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc?) 



Me. sericea. Curtis. — N. G. sericea. Steph. Catal. ii. 214. No. T^IS. 



Sericeous : " thorax and superior (anterior) wings dull ochreous, with a car- 

 neous tinge, minutely freckled with fuscous, and a row of dots at the 

 posterior margin of the same colour; body paler, and the inferior (posterior) 

 wings almost white." — Curtis, I. c. 



" Taken in a garden in Suffolk, the end of June." — Curtis, I.e. 



Genus CCCLXI. — Eudouea, Curtis. 



Palpi four; maxillary distinct, biarticulate, short, clothed with a truncate 

 brush of scales ; labial much longer, slightly drooping, clothed with short 

 scales above and very long ones beneath, extending beyond the apex ; the 

 latter in the denuded state acute, consisting of a small conical joint: 

 maxillce rather long. Antennae short, subserrate, faintly pubescent within 

 in the males : head moderate, clothed in front with loose scales : eyes 

 large : thorax subquadrate : wings nearly decumbent, inclining but little 

 during repose, and forming a triangle ; anterior long and narrow, usually of 

 ashy tints, with two paler transverse streaks and some marks resembling 

 letters between them ; the hinder margin slightly rounded ; posterior ample 

 and folded, slightly waved on the hinder margin : lody rather long, acute at 

 the apex, which bears a very small tuft : legs rather long and slender. 



In this pretty genus — Scoparia of Haworth, changed to Eudorea 

 by Curtis, from the former being a Linnean genus of plants — the 

 four palpi arc conspicuous, the maxillary being however small, and 

 the labial considerably elongated and thickly clothed with long 

 scales, not inaptly representing a small painter''s brush, whence 

 Haworth's name : the anterior wings are longish, of a somewhat 

 triangular form, decumbent during repose, the disc pale, with two 

 conspicuous darker streaks, forming the outline, as it were, of a fascia, 

 in which are generally some dark marks resembling Greek characters, 

 and on the hinder margin is generally an irregular fuscous fascia, 



