98 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Genus LXXXIV. — Gnophria* mihi. 



Palpi moderate, curved upwards, sparingly covered with scales and slightly 

 hairy beneath, triarticulate ; the two basal joints of nearly equal length, the 

 first stout, the second sublinear, the terminal minute, subovate : maxillw 

 as long as the antennae. Antenna; similar in both sexes, the male with a 

 single seta on both sides of each articulation : head scaly in front, small : 

 wings, anterior elongate, narrow ; posterior orbicular-trigonate, folded : body 

 short, rather stout, subconic, with a tuft at the apex in the males : legs short, 

 rather stout ; tibive short, robust, the posterior with two pair of spurs. Larva 

 pilose; pupa folliculated. 



Gnophria is at once distinguished from Lithosia, which it most 

 resembles in form, by its triarticulated palpi, and, in the only- 

 indigenous species, by its deep black colour: — from Setina it 

 differs by the elongation of its wings, and the brevity of its body. 



Sp. 1. rubricollis. Atra, abdomine postice Jlavo, collari sanguineo. (Exp. alar. 



1 unc. 1—4 lin.) 

 Ph. No. rubricollis. Linne.—Bon. x. pi 350. /. 3.— Gn. rubricollis. Steph. 



Catal. pt. ii. ^.61. No. 6060. 

 Entirely of a deep black, with the collar bright sanguineous, and the apex and 



under side of the abdomen of a rich golden-yellow. 

 t Var. /3. The anterior wings with an elongate naked patch on the disc. 

 Caterpillar greenish-ash, with dusky or black fasciae, spotted with red and white ; 



head piceous, with two white streaks: — it feeds on various kinds of Uchens; 



is found in June, changing to a reddish-brown pupa, in a grayish web, and 



appearing in its final state about the middle of July. 



Not uncommon in the lane leading into Darenth-wood from the 

 village ; and occasionally found in other parts of the wood. " In 

 profusion in June last at Collingbourne-wood." — Rev. G. T. Rudd. 

 " Epping, rare."" — Mr. H. Doubleday. Var. /3. is in the British 

 Museum. 



Genus LXXXV. — Setina. 



Palpi short, ascending, slightly divaricating, hairy beneath, triarticulated ; the 

 two basal joints of equal length, the first stoutest, the next sublinear, the 

 terminal one very minute, subovate : maxillae elongate. Antennce simple in 

 both sexes, ciliated in the males : head small, pilose in front ; thorax slightly 

 pilose : body rather slender, sublinear, stoutest in the females : wings short, 



* rvixp^o;, caliginosus. 



