559. 



NASCIA CILIALIS. 



The Cambridge Veneer. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Crambidae. 



Type of the Genus, Pyralis cilialis Hiib. 

 Nascia Curt. — Crambus Curt. — Margaritia Step. — Pyralis Hub. 



Antennae placed rather behind the crown of the head, shorter 

 than the body, slender, filiform, clothed with scales above, pu- 

 bescent beneath, with a few bristles at remote distances (1). 

 Maxilla spiral, longer than the palpi and clothed with scales 

 outside at the base (3). Pa/pz distinct, porrected obliquely and 

 clothed with scales, forming a truncated and thickened apex (7 a). 

 Labial palpi long, slightly drooping (7, 4), projecting far beyond 

 the head and meeting like a beak (7* 4), stout and attenuated, 

 densely clothed with scales, triarticulate ? 

 Head small, subglobose, clothed with slender scales on the crown, fall- 

 ing down between the antennae : eyes small lateral and prominent : 

 ocelli minute (7 the head in profile, 7* upper side of same). Thorax 

 clothed with depressed hairs. Abdomen rather short and slender. 

 Wings, superior suhtrapezate, the apex acute and appearing slightly 

 hooked ; inferior, triangular rounded ; cilia short. Anterior coxas 

 long and stout (8 c) ; thighs rather long and stout ; tibiae short, with 

 a long internal spine {I) ; tarsi long and 5 -jointed, basal joint the 

 longest, apical the shortest : claws and pulvilli m,inute : the other 

 legs are wanting in my specimen. 

 Caterpillar, &c. unknown. 



Cilialis Hiib. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 990. 1. 



Pale orange ; head pale ochreous, margins of eyes and under- 

 side of antennae white, superior wings with the costa and all the 

 nervures bright ferruginous, the former with a grayish bloom, 

 the edge white ; cilia whitish with a brown line at the base ; 

 inferior wings ochreous, yellowish white at the base; cilia 

 whitish. 



In the Author's Cabinet. 



When the genus Scopula was illustrated I corrected nume- 

 rous errors committed in that group by Mr. Stephens in his 

 Syst. Cat. ; nine of his specific names were synonymous, two 

 of his species had no claim to be admitted into our British 

 lists, and five others belonging to this were placed in other 

 generaf . I am glad to find that he has adopted all these cor- 



t Vide foHo 312, where P. nebulaUs Hiib. is given as the type, but it 

 ouoht to have been P. nebulalis of Haivorth. 



