TIKEID.E. — CRAMBUS. 31^ 



appear subfalcate ; posterior wings ample, with the hinder margin sinuated : 

 cilia all very short : bodtf rather long, slender, with a small tuft at the apex 

 in the males: leg^s moderate. 



This genus and Acria are the only two genera in the respective 

 families of the old Tineidae, which have the costa of the anterior 

 wings in any way excised ; in Acria there is an ovate notch, 

 and in the present genus, towards the apex, are three or four deep 

 oblique serratures, by which character alone it may be known from all 

 the indigenous (and I believe other European) genera ; in addition 

 to which the slightly pectinated antennas, densely squamous palpi, 

 emarginate hinder margin of the anterior wings, their short cilia, Sic. 

 may be alluded to. 



Sp. 1. nebulifera. Alts anticis albis costa latt cinereo-fusca, basi interiore, 

 nebulague irregulari medio communi nigro-fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 9^ Hn.) 



Pr. nebulifera. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. 



Anterior wings clear white, with the costa, except a triangular patch at the 

 apex, ashy-brown ; at the base within is a somewhat orate blackish-brown 

 spot, and in the middle of the inner margin is a larger and darker patch, of 

 an irregular form, and divided by a transverse zigzag white streak ; on the 

 costa near the apex is an abbreviated and acutely-angulated white line, 

 vanishing on a bright white patch in the middle of the hinder margin, but 

 again very faintly visible on the inner margin near the hinder -angle, which 

 is slightly tinted with fuscous ; adjouiing the white patch on the hinder 

 margin is a minute deep black dot, and the margin itself is narrowly edged 

 with fuscous: posterior wings whitish. 



Of this singularly remarkable insect I have seen only my own spe- 

 cimen, which I obtained from the collection of Mr. Haworth, who 

 appears to have procured it from that of ^Ir. Francillon : I know not 

 its locality. 



Gentts CCCLXMII— CRA>rBrs. Fabrichis. 



Palpi four; maxillary distinct, clothed with scales, and forming a pencil; 

 labial very long and slender, porrected like a beak, the apex slightly 

 depending, clothed with short scales, the terminal joint visible, more slender 

 than the preceding, and attenuated: maiiUae long- J»(ft-nn<r similar in the 

 sexes, setaceous, faintly pubescent beneath in the males: head small, with 

 a slight crest of scales in front: eyes small: thorax ovate, not crested: 

 wings convoluted during repose ; anterior narrow, obliquely truncate at the 

 apex, and sometimes faintly emarginate ; disc occasionally with metallic 

 streaks ; posterior ample, slightly waved on the hinder margin ; cilia all 



