3G0 HAUSTELLATA. LEl'lDOPTKRA. 



Anterior wings long and narrow, anteriorly of a shining immaculate purple : 

 posterior wings very transparent and fuscous. 



Not common : I have a pair, one of which I found several years 

 since, in June, at Darenth wood ; the other I obtained unnamed 

 from Mr. Ilaworth's collection. 



Sp. 13. purpurella. Alis anficis purpureis, punctis maculaque communi j^osiica 

 albis. (Exp. Alar. 4| — 5 lin.) 



Ti. purpurella. Haworth — La. purpurella. Steph. Catal. ii. 227. No. 7574. 



Anterior wings bright purple, sprinkled posteriorly with minute whitish atoms, 

 and with a rather conspicuous whitish common spot on the hinder angle: 

 cilia ashy-purple : posterior wings fuscous, with the tip in certain lights of 

 a brown-pvuplish gold. 



I possess a fine series of this rare insect, as well as the original specimens of 

 the other species of this pretty genus, from Haworth's collection. 



Also a scarce species, taken rather early in the siunmer within the 

 metropolitan district ; also in February according to Haworth. 



Sp. 14. auropurpurella. Alis anticis purpureis punctis maculisque sparsis numt- 

 7-osis aureis. (Exp. Alar. 5 — 5^ lin.) 



Ti. auropurpurella. Haworth. — La. auropurpurella. Steph, Catal. ii. 227. 



No. 7575. — Antispila, Hvbner. 



Anterior wings of a red-purple, thickly sprinkled throughout with golden dots 

 and spots; cilia purple, interrupted with gold: posterior wings fuscous, 

 with a very faint purplish tinge on the margin. 



In some examples the gold spots on the anterior wings are slightly confluent. 



An extremely beautiful, and a rare little insect : it frequents 

 flowers within the metropolitan district about the beginning of June. 



Sp. 15. rubroaurella. Alis anticis rubro-aureis puncto postico aureo, jwsticis 

 aiirco-jmrjmr-eis. (Exp. Alar. 4| — 5 lin.) 



Ti. rubroaurella. Haworth. — La. rubroaurella. Steph. Catal. ii. 227. No. 7576. 



Anterior wings of a red or purplish-gold, with a small golden dot behind, in 

 which is a minute fuscous point, and in the middle of the inner margin is a 

 faint trigonal golden dot: posterior wings of a changeable golden-purple. 



Also somewhat rare : found at Coombe and Darenth woods in the 

 summer, and in other places near London. 



Sp. 16. Hellwigella. Alis anticis aureis fasciis quatuor ruhro-purpurcis, posticis 



fusco-cupreis. (Exp. Alar. 4 — 4| lin.) 

 Ti. Hellwigella. 7/»Z>/uv.— La. Hellwigella. Steph. Catal. ii. 227. Nu. 7577. 



