370 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Genus CCCLXXXIII. — Acdistes, Hiihner. 



Palpi curved, densely clothed with scales and truncated, the terminal joint 

 just visible, and truncate obliquely. Antennae short and slender, very 

 pubescent beneath in the males : head simple, with a conical protuberance 

 on the forehead, thickly clothed with short scales : eyes small : wings not 

 divided, placed together during repose, and erected, lanceolate ; posterior 

 smallest: hody very long, linear in the males, subfusiform in the females; 

 with the apex conical: legs slender, long; posterior tibise with two pair of 

 minute apical spurs. 



The undivided wings, short truncate palpi, and minute spurs to 

 the hinder tibiae are the principal points of distinction of this genus 

 from Fterophcrus. 



■fSp. 1. Bennetii. Alis rnfo-cinereis seu ochreis, punctis quatuor ati'is. (Exp. 

 Alar. 1 unc.) 



Adactylus Bennetii. Curtis, v. x. p/. 171. — Agdistes Bennetii. Steph. Nomen. 

 2nd edit. 



'' Reddish-chiereous, sometimes with an obscure tint; eyes black ; superior 

 (anterior) wings with four dark spots on each, one towards the base, 

 another across the middle, and two beyond it approaching the posterior 

 angle : abdomen of the female with five or six pair of black dots down the 

 back." — Curtis, I. c. 



" On plants on the Salterns at ToUsbury, Essex, end of July." — 

 Curtis, I. c. 



Genus CCCLXXXIV. — Pteuophorus, Geojfroy. 



Palpi porrected beyond the head, slender, curved a little upwards, sparingly 

 clothed with scales, the terminal joint long and acute. Antenna rather 

 long and slender, slightly pubescent beneath in the males: head small, 

 globose : eyes large, globose : wings extended horizontally during repose, 

 and slightly plaited, anterior generally consisting of two, and the posterior 

 of three, lobes, the inner posterior one frequently with a triangular appen- 

 dage within ; c//mlong: body long, slender, linear in the males, subfusi- 

 form in the females, and acute at the apex : legs long and stoutish ; posterior 

 iibiije with two pair of long spurs. Larva fleshy, sparingly clothed with 

 shortish hairs, with sixteen legs; pupa also hairy, and suspended by a 

 thread. 



From the foregoing genus this may be known by having the palpi 

 curved and acute, the wings divided, the anterior into two or three 

 feathers, and the posterior into three ; the legs, especially the 



