TINEID.E. — HOMCEOSOMA. 311 



Ph. tristrigella. Steph. Numen. "id edit. 



Anterior wings fuscous and very shining, with three whitish flexuous streaks, 

 the first towards the base, the second near the middle, placed very obliquely ; 

 the third midway !)etweeii it and the hinder margin ; between the two first 

 streaks is a blackish cloud ; in the centre of the space, and between the 

 other two, is another blackish cloud, placed towards the costa : on the 

 hinder margin is a row of minute wedge-shaped dusky dots : posterior wings 

 deep fuscous ; cilia paler and very glossy. 



Very rare apparently : I have a single example taken by myself at 

 Darentli in June. 



Sp. 28. palumbella. Alts auticis an^ustis cinereis strigis dtiabus Jlcxuosi 

 nigris, exius rosea late adiiatis, posticis alLidis. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc. — 1 unc. 

 1 lin.) 



Ti. palumbella. Wien. Vcrz.—Vh. palumbella. Steph. Caial. ii. 216. No. 74.52. 

 PiMPELiA, Hubner. 



Anterior wings rather narrow, ashy, and prettily varied with dove-colour in 

 front, with a distinct flexuous black streak before the middle, broadly edged 

 with rose-colour within, which is frequently edged again towards the base 

 with black; beyond the middle is a second black streak, very much bent, 

 and broadly edged with rose-colour without, and between them is a black 

 crescent, edged faintly with white without; on the hinder margin is an 

 interrupted black line : posterior wings whitish, with the margin darkened. 



Slightly variable in colour, and a little so in markings. 



Common in the New Forest, near Lynclhurst, in June, but less 

 frequent in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, where it occurs at 

 Coombe and Darenth woods. 



Genus CCCLXIII. — Homceosoma, Curtis. 



Palpi four; labial porrected nearly horizontally, slender and tapering, the 

 terminal joint short and acute : maxilhe short. Antennae in both sexes shnple 

 and setaceous, faintly pubescent within in the males : head small, with erect 

 scales in front : eyes moderate : thorax stoutish : wingx convoluted during 

 repose ; anterior narrow, sublanceolate, somewhat obtuse at the hinder 

 margin, pale, with darker transverse streaks ; posterior ample, much folded : 

 cilia short : body rather long, with a small tuft at the apex in the malea, 

 acute in the females. 



I have followed Mr. Curtis in promoting this species to a genus, 

 although in habit it closely resembles the true Thycitiv ; but, as the 

 palpi arc somewhat shorter and straighter, and the form and colour- 

 ing of the anterior wings slightly different ; it will not absolutely 



