631. 

 STILBIA ANOMALATA. 



The false Footman. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Noctuidse? 



Type of the Genus, Geometra hybridata Hub. 

 Stilbia Step., Curt. — Phalsena Haw. — Geometra Hiib. 



Antemia inserted on the crown of the head, close to the eyes, 

 shorter than the body, slender and setaceous, clothed \vith 

 scales above, pubescent beneath in the male (1). 

 3Iaxill(e short slender and spiral, not more than half the length 

 of the antennae (3). 



Labial palpi nearly horizontal, scarcely projecting beyond the 

 head, remote, subfiliform, densely clothed with short broad 

 scales (4), slender and triarticulate, basal joint a little the long- 

 est, curved and dilated at the base, 2nd rather slender and 

 linear, 3rd minute ovate (4 a). 

 Male rather larger than the female. Head small and clothed ivith short 

 scales: ejes lateral, large, globose and prominent : ocelli distinct 

 (7, the head in prof le). Thorax small and not crested. Abdomen 

 rather long, slender and linear, the apex tufted in the male ; more 

 ovate-conic and shorter in the female, with a small tuft at the apex. 

 "Wings folded like the Lithosice in repose, superior forming an elon- 

 gated triangle, the shoulder and apex rounded : inferior ample, the 

 posterior margin rounded, and slightly emarginate : cilia rather long. 

 Legs stoutish : thighs, hinder the shortest : tibiae, anterior short 

 with an internal spine, the others ivith long spurs at the apex espe- 

 cially the intermediate, the posterior with a pair of spurs also be- 

 low the middle (8 f) ; tarsi long and 5 -jointed, basal joint very long, 

 terminal one very small : claws and pulvilli very minute. 

 Caterpillar undiscovered. 



Anomalata Haw. — Cu7-t. Guide, Gen. 881. 1. — hybridata /f«5. 



Male livid brown ; wings very silky, superior darkest at the 

 costa, on which there are a few pale dots towards the apex ; a 

 pale oval stigma placed very obliquely and an ear-shaped one 

 beyond it on the disc, both margined with black and united 

 by a black or brown stripe, before them is an angulated inter- 

 rupted black line margined mth orange, and beyond them a 

 similar line, and near to the posterior margin is a pale sinuated 

 line dentated towards the apex, and producing 2 or 3 black rays 

 internally, posterior margin marked with a line of brown lu- 

 nules : inferior wings pale ochreous, more fuscous towards the 

 posterior margin, which bears a brown line, and the nemires 

 are obscurely fuscous. Obs. It is only in very fine specimens 

 that the grey in the upper A\-ings is bright, or the angulated 

 black lines ai'e apparent. 



Female with the superior wings of an uniform dark li\id brown, 

 the markings very obscure, and the inferior mngs are more 

 fuscous. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets, 



