74 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



the characters of the palpi, which have the basal joint as long as the 

 second, and stouter, with the terminal ver}'^ short and ovate. 



Sp. 1. fuliginosa. Alis unticis r-iifo-fidiginosis, pitncto geniino nigro, posticis 

 ruhris, juaculis marginalibus nigris. (Exp. alar. 10 lin. — 1 unc. 6 lin.) 



Ph. Bo. fuliginosa. Liiiiic. — Don. iii. pi. 80. — Phr. fuliginosa. Steph. Calal. 

 No. 6025. 



Antenna? pale rufescent, with black radii : head and thorsix dusky-red : abdomen 

 cinnabar-red, with a streak of spots down the back, and another along each 

 side : anterior wings like the thorax, with one or two minute black spots at the 

 apex of the basal areolet, the cilia bright red : posterior wings fine bright red, 

 with the margin and some scattered spots on the disc black, cilia bright red. 



The posterior wings are frequently nearly immaculate, and occasionally nearly 

 all black, with the inner margin alone red ; at other times they have the margin 

 alone dusky. The form of the wings differs materially. I possess a pair which 

 have the anterior very much elongated and attenuated, forming a remarkable 

 contrast to the usual appearance. Can they belong to different species } Harris 

 figures the common kind in his Aurehan, and another, which he considers 

 distinct, in his Exposition ; and there is considerable diversity in the larva?. 



Caterpillar ferruginous, with the head and anterior legs black ; or slate- colour, 

 with the head cupreous: it is polyphagous, but prefers plantain, dock, and 

 nettle ; is found in June, and the imago appears in the beginning of July. 



I have once or twice found the ferruginous larvae of this insect 

 near Ripley, and occasionally at Darenth-wood and near Hertford. 

 " Near Dublin."— 72^t;. J. Buhver. " West Moors, York, and 

 Prestwick Carr, near Newcastle." — W. C. Hcivitson, Esq. " Coles- 

 hill."— Eeu. W. T. Bree. 



Genus LXXII. — Spilosoma * mihi. 



Palpi short, a little descending, triarticidate, the two basal joints very hairy, the 

 terminal scaly, the basal joint somewhat longer than the second, the apical 

 rather small, oval, subconic: maxillw short. Antennw slightly bipectinated in 

 the males, serrated in the females, tach articulation with a bristle at the apex: 

 head rather small, hairy : thorax and abdomen rather stout in both sexes, the 

 latter slightly tufted in the male, acute in the female ; wings trigonate, de- 

 flexed, opaque : legs moderately stout : anterior tibiae short, with a spine in- 

 ternally ; the four posterior with spurs at the apex. Larva slightly tuber- 

 culated, each tubercle producing a whisker of hairs : pupa obtuse, foUiculated. 



We again arrive at a group of insects in which the predominant 

 colour is white ; but, unlike the former group of the same hue, the 



ItiKo; macula, (ray/y corpus. 



