1)2 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Pale lutcous-griscous : anterior wings griseous, clouded with ochraceous-yellow, 

 the base brownish at the costa, with a transverse, shghtly-undulatcd, and 

 sometimes abbreviated, dusky-brown striga, and another, behind the middle, 

 reaching obliquely from the apex : between these, on the disc, is a sublunate 

 whitish spot, and a smaller and whiter one between this and the costa : the 

 hinder margin of the wing has frequently an undulated brown striga : posterior 

 wings immaculate griseous, with a transverse brown streak. Female similar 

 in markings, but of a pale ochraceous yellow, or yellowish. 



\"ar. 1=. Both sexes very pale ochraceous, with the usual markings very 

 obsolete. 



Var. y. Female of a deep fawn-colour, clouded with luteous, and marked as 

 in var. «, 



Caterpillar dusky-brown, with a lateral yellow line and white spots on the sides 

 above the legs : it is found in June, on various kinds of coarse high grasses, 

 and changes into a brown pupa : the imago appears in July. 



Very abundant in lanes, hedges, and woods, in the neighbour- 

 hood of London, especially in Hagbush-lane, Copenhagen-fields, the 

 lanes near Garrett-green, and at Ripley and Hertford. " Sundridge, 

 Kent, in plenty." — Mr. Ingpen. " Abundant near Andover." — 

 Rev. G. T. Rudd. " Throughout the fens of Cambridgeshire, in 

 the greatest profusion." — Rev. L. Jcnyns. " York and Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne." — W. C. Hezcitson, Esq. " Abundant near Barnstaple, 

 Devon." — W. Raddon, Esq. 



Genus LVIII. — Gastropacha, Ochsenlieimer. 



Palpi elongate, porrected, hairy, triarticulate, the second joint longest, the ter- 

 minal obtuse : maxillas very small. Antenna short, recurved, strongly bipec- 

 tinated in both sexes : head small, with an acute projecting hairy tuft : thorax 

 and abdomen robust, densely pilose, the latter acute in the female: wings 

 dentated, reversed during repose : legs moderately stout : the Jewzora and tibiae 

 pilose. Larva broad, rounded above, with fascicles of hair on the sides, each 

 segment with a fleshy lateral appendage, and on the penultimate joint a distinct 

 truncated tubercle : jmpa obtuse, enclosed in an oblong broadly constructed 

 cocoon, and covered with a whitish powder. 



The stout recurved antennse (which are nearly alike in both 

 sexes), and dentated wings, at once discriminate this genus from all 

 the foregoing : the caterpillars are also remarkable from the fleshy 

 lateral appendages, or lappets, with which each segment is furnished, 

 from whence has originated the name of Lojjpets, which has been 

 applied to the imago. 



Sp. 1. QuercifoUa. Alls fc7-rugincis, strigis undatis fuscis marginegne postico 

 nigris. (Exp. alar. $ 2 unc. 3—10 lin. : ? 3 unc. 2—4 lin.) 



