72 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOI'TERA. 



spotted with black, and an irregular black fascia at the apex : antennae, head, 

 and thorax black, the latter with a cream-coloured spot on each side : abdomen 

 rufous, with a dorsal and lateral series of black spots. 



Var, fi. With the basal and two following spots on the anterior wings confluent. 



Var. y. With the basal and four following spots on the anterior wings confluent. 



Var. J. The apical spots on the anterior wings united. 



The relative bulk of the respective spots on the anterior wings and their con- 

 fluence varies considerably ; and not unfrequently there are three or four small 

 spots disposed in a band at the apex; the posterior wings are sometimes 

 nearly immaculate, at others very thickly spotted, especially on the margin. 



Caterpillar dusky, with blackish hairs, and fulvous tubercles; the head and legs 

 red : it is polyphagous, but prefers duckweed : it is hatched in the autumn, 

 and may be found in heathy places in the spring, while in quest of a situation 

 to effect its change : the pupa is black : the imago appears towards the middle 

 or end of June. 



Not very common in the neiglibourlioocl of London : but taken 

 occasionally at Sydenham and Norwood ; also at Birch, Darentli, 

 and Coombe woods, Hertford, Ripley, &c. " Not uncommon near 

 Southend and at Bea\r—Hev. F. W. Hope. " Suffolk."— ?F. C. 

 HewUson, Esq. " Rare near Cambridge." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Genus LXX. — Nemeophila * mihi. 



Palpi extremely short, enveloped in the hairs of the front, triarticulate, the joints 

 of nearly equal length, subglobose, the basal largest, the terminal smallest, 

 and slightly compressed: maxiUas very short. Antennce rather slightly bipec- 

 tinated in the male, the pectinations shortening towards the apex, sen-ated and 

 ciliated in the female : head small, very pilose : thorax and abdomen rather 

 slender, the former with elongated hairs in the male, the latter stoutest and 

 acute in the female, tufted at the apex in the male : wings deflexed, opaque, 

 scaly : legs rather short : anterior tibive with a spine on the inside ; posterior 

 with spurs at the apex. Larva cylindric, slightly tuberculated, each tubercle 

 producing a fascicle of hair: imp^i with a truncate projection. 



Nemeophila has the thorax and abdomen rather slender ; the an- 

 tennae but slightly bipectinated in the males; the wings opaque 

 and squamous ; and the palpi extremely short, enveloped in the 

 Lairs of the head, with all the joints of nearly equal length, sub- 

 globose, the apical one somewhat compressed. 



Sp. 1. Plantaginis. Alls anticis atris rivulis Jlavis, post ids Ititeis ?nargi?ie ma- 

 culisque nigris. (Exp. alar. $ 1 unc. 6 — 8 lin. : 9 1 unc. 7 — 10 lin.) 



Ni^oj nemus, if/Xov amicus. 



