336 HAUSTELLATA. — I.EPIDOPTERA. 



simple, clothed in front with a short crest of scales : ei/es small : thoraj: not 

 crested: u inj^-** deflesed during repose ; anterior elongate^ narrow, sometimes 

 with elevated scales ; the disc more or less flavescent ; the hinder margin 

 more or less emarffinate, and the apex acute or falcate : cilia rather long at 

 the hinder anele : posterior wings ample, sublanceolate, with longish cilia : 

 body rather long, slender, with a tuft at the apex in the male ; obtuse in the 

 females : legs smooth. 



From the preceding and the following genera this differs in having 

 the palpi straight and directed forwards, and the branch of scales 

 with which thev are adorned is depending ; the wings are of pale 

 yellowish tints, sometimes with elevated tufts of scales, and having 

 the hinder margin deeply excised, or truncate with the anterior apex 

 mucronate ; the cilia are rather short, and the posterior wings rather 

 lonsrer than in the foregoing genera : the species appear to be autumnal, 

 beginning to appear towards the middle of August. 



Sp. 1. asperella. Alis anticis scabris JIaro~albidis, apice emaiginatis, jnacvUs 

 duabus elevatis, nigris in viargine ienuiore, aliisque ad apicem. (Exp. Alar. 

 7i— 9 lin.) 



Ph. Ti. asperella. Linne. — Ph. Ti. falcatella. Donovan, s. pi. 335. f. S. — 

 Ph. asperella. Steph. Catal. ii. 229. No. 7509. 



Anterior wings yellowish- white, roughened, with obscure darker atoms, with 

 a larse triansidar ochreous blotch in the middle of the inner margin, its base 

 terminating at each end with an elevated black spot : the apex of the wing 

 is deeply and somewhat circularly notched on the hinder margin, and 

 opposite to the excision, which is dusky or black on its edge, there are four 

 minute black dots placed in a row, parallel with the margin : posterior 

 wings shining brownish-ashy, with the tip paler. 



Caterpillar feeds on apple and other fruit trees : the imago is found in August. 



I possess a fine pair of this insect, which I obtained many years 

 since from !Mr. Dale, who captured them, with others, I believe, at 

 Glanvilles Wotton, in August. 



Sp. 2. antennellus. Alis anticis retusis pallide Jlavicantibus imtnaculatis, obsolete 

 fusco reticulatisj apice mucronaio, capite thoracisqve dorso albis. (Exp. Alar. 

 8—9 lin.) 

 Ti. antennella. Wien. Terz. — Yp. mucronellus. Steph. Catal. ii. 9^32. No.loXO. 



Anterior wings pale yellowish, immaculate, but very obscurely and thickly 

 reticulated throughout with pale fuscous ; the apex mucronated : posterior 

 wings pale fuscous : head, palpi, and back of the thorax white : antenns 

 white, annulated with fiiscous. 



Not uncommon at Coombe and Darenth woods in Julv and 



