When I published, a few years since, the type of my genus 

 Cleora, I unfortunately had not a male ; and from the appear- 

 ance of the females I was led to think that the insects which 

 form the present group Boarmia would associate with them. 

 Mr. Lyell having kindly presented me with this male of Cleora 

 cinctaria^ I find it has beautifully pectinated antennae similar 

 to those of Alcis ; whereas in Boarmia they are pilose beneath 

 in this sex, each joint producing across the middle a line of 

 long curved hairs. The palpi are short and densely clothed 

 with scales : the anterior tarsi are furnished with a broad spine 

 near the middle, externally covered with scales, acute at the 

 apex, and emarginate on one side, where it is ciliated with 

 long hairs. There can be little doubt that this spine is the 

 analogue of that which we find attached to the anterior tibiae in 

 the Hymenoptera ; but in the Lepidoptera it is placed further 

 from the apex, and I am not able to determine for what pur- 

 poses it is intended. 



The British species of Boarmia are 



1. B. tetragonaria Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 280. 



The female figured I found upon the trunk of a tree 

 in Birch-wood, the 6th of May 1821 ; it was cold 

 and windy, with sunshine and sudden showers. 



2. B. Abietaria HWiSo. 276. 14. 



The moth is found in woods on the trunks of trees 

 the end of March. This is not the G. Ahietaria of 

 Hiibner, which is not only differently marked, but 

 the antennae are strongly pectinated, and it is pro- 

 bably my Alcis Australaria. 



3. B. crepuscularia JF/w5. ^/. SO.f. 158. — Hwdo. 



July, skirts of woods. 



4. B. consonaria Hiib. pi. 30. Jl 157. — Haw. 



Middle of May, trunks of trees. Coomb-wood. 



5. B. strigularia Steph. 



6. B. extersaria Hilb. pi. SO.f. 159. — Haw. 



In woods, the beginning of July. 



7. B. punctularia Hiib. pi. 61./. 317. — Haw. 



Trunks of birch-trees, the middle of May, in Birch- 

 and Coomb- woods. 

 The plant is Oph'^s [Aceras Brown) anthropopJiora (Green 

 Man-orchis). 



