378 HAUSTELLATA. LEriDOPTERA. 



Anterior wings fuscous, with a streak towards the hinder margin, and some 

 spots near the apex white : posterior wings fuscous, immaculate. 



Very rare : it has occurred in June at Darenth wood, and also in 

 Devonshire. 



Genus CCCLXXXV. — Alucita, Scopoli. 



Palpi long, slender, recurved, the basal joints clothed with long porrected 

 scales, extended forwards horizontally, and resembling a beak, the terminal 

 joint long, subulate, acute, directed upwards : viaxillce short. Antennce 

 short, simple in both sexes, a little pubescent within in the males : head 

 with a tuft of depressed scales in front: eyes small: thorax not crested: 

 wings very short, composed of six lobes, resembling feathers, ciliated on 

 both sides, excepting the costal one : posterior wings similar, but smaller ; 

 the apex of all the lobes rounded, and furnished with a dark spot : body 

 short, scarcely reaching beyond the wings, when expanded ; obtuse in the 

 males ; acute and stouter in the females : legs rather short. 



The beautiful structure of the wings of this elegant genus of moths 

 — all of them being composed of six nearly equal and similar lobes, 

 consisting of a shaft, and fringed on all sides (excepting the costal 

 one) with fine ciha, so as to form a sort of plume of feathers, the 

 apex of which is rounded, and marked with a dark dot, rounded by a 

 pale space — at once serves to distinguish them from the other genera 

 of the family, exclusively of their elongate recurved palpi, short 

 body, &;c. 



Sp. 1. hexadactyla. Alls cinereis, fasciis irrcgularihus J'uscis, albo adnatis. 

 (Exp. Alar. 7—8 lin.) 



Ph. Al. hexadactyla. Linne. — Donovan, v. iv. pi. 136. — Al. hexadactyla. 

 Steph. Catal. ii. 231. No. 7630. 



Wings ashy, anterior with a broad irregular brown fascia in the middle, and 

 a very much waved one on the hinder margin, both edged with whitish: 

 posterior wings alternately fuscous and whitish, the tip of each plume in all 

 the wings with a minute distinct black dot ; cilia ashy. 



The caterpillar feeds on various species of honeysuckle : it occurs in gardens, 

 which the imago also frequents. 



Extremely abundant in gardens throughout the metropolitan 

 district, from the end of spring nearly to the approach of winter : 

 common also in other parts of the country. " Newcastle."''' — • 

 G. Wailes, Esq. " Caernarvon." — C. C. Babu/giofi, Esq. 



