168 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTEKA. 



Lytsea may be known by the stoutness of its thorax, and the 

 slenderness of its short tufted abdomen, with the rotundity and 

 glossiness of its wings : the length of its robust serrated antennae, 

 the proportions and form of the joints of the palpi, and the elongated 

 loose depending scales, which clothe the two basal joints of the 

 latter, leaving the apical one nearly and conspicuously exposed. 



Sp. 1. umbrosa. Alls anticispallide griseo-roseis, strigis facidque inter stigmata 



ordinariafuscescentibus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 8 lin.) 

 No. umbrosa. Hiihner. — Ly. umbrosa. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 64. No. 6072. 



Head and thorax of an immaculate griseous-rosy ; anterior wings the same, in- 

 clining to cupreouSj and glossy; with an abbreviated dusky striga at the base, 

 a second rather undulated one, between it and the anterior stigma, a broader 

 irregular angulated one between the stigmata, expanding into a dusky patch 

 towards the costa ; behind the posterior stigma, a fourth gradually bent striga, 

 followed midway between it and the hinder margin with a broader waved 

 one, and a narrow streak on the margin of the wings itself : the posterior 

 wings ashy-brown at the base, with an obsolete transverse striga, and a broad 

 fuscescent margin ; cilia rosy : abdomen cinereous, with the lateral and anal 

 tufts rosy. 



Caterpillar ashy-wliite, with a dusky stripe on each side of the back. 



Occasionally taken near Birch-wood, and I have twice found it 

 in Sydenham-wood at the end of July. " Netley, Salop, abund- 

 antly in August, 1827."— Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Genus LXXXIX.— CnARiEAS mihi. 



Palpi very short, triarticulate, the two basal joints densely squamous, the ter- 

 minal sUghtly exposed, the basal joint shorter and stouter than the following, 

 which is stout at the base and gradually attenuated to the apex, the terminal 

 slightly elongate, acute, or ovate acuminate : maxillw long. Antennce simple 

 in the females, more or less pectinated in the males : head small, squamous : 

 thorax robust, not crested : body short, slightly carinated on the back ; the apex 

 of the males with a tuft : ivings generally denticulated on the hinder margin, 

 sometimes xoxaiAeA. ; posterior not very large, ovate-triangular, usually whitish 

 in the males, fuscous in the females. Larva naked, radicivorous ; pupa 

 subterraneous. 



The typical species of this genus are distinguished by having their 

 wings more or less denticulated, a character not very common 

 amongst the Noctuidae; but in Ch. Graminis, (which ought probably 

 to be separated from the rest as a distinct genus) they are entire, 

 and the palpi are somewhat dissimilar in their proportions; the 



