128 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



north of Darenth-wood, flying by day, and in otlier parts of the 

 country. " Netley, Salop." — Rev. F. W. Hope. " Near Burgh- 

 field, Berks."— /?ei;. C. S. Bird. " In the Isle of Wight."— J/r. 

 Weaver. 



Genus XCII. — Graphiphora, Huhner. 



Palpi moderate^ ascending, parallel, densely clothed with scales, the base pilose, 

 theterminal joint distinct, squamous; triarticulate, the basal joint curved, the 

 second longer than the first, slightly attenuated, the terminal small, elongate- 

 ovate, a httle acuminated : maxillce as long as the antennfe. Antennce various, 

 moderate, generally simple, with the lower surface pubescent in the females ; 

 usually ciliated beneath in the males, or deeply bipectinated, with the pec- 

 tinations abbreviated towards the apex, sometimes serrated and pubescent 

 beneath: head large, scaly: thorax slightly crested: wings generally rather 

 broad, slightly rounded behind, horizontal during repose, not denticulated ; 

 mostly griseous or dusky, with dark spots towards the costa. Larva exposed, 

 usually with pale lateral stripes, naked : pupa subterranean. 



Like the preceding genus, Graphiphora is chiefly composed of 

 dingy and similarly marked species, though amongst them may be 

 noticed a few of delicate and somewhat vivid colours ; from the 

 former circumstance, the investigation of the species appears to have 

 been neglected in this country, as very few cabinets contain above 

 six or eight of the following species. The genus is evidently 

 closely allied to Agrotis, and several of the species are included in 

 that genus by Ochsenheimer and Treitschke, while Schrank and 

 Boisduval agree in uniting the whole under the incorrect appellation 

 Noctua (a name which has been also employed by Treitschke, in 

 lieu of Graphiphora, although justly restored by Savigny to a genus 

 of owls) ; they may, however, be distinguished by the superior width 

 and glossiness of the anterior wings, which have usually but two 

 stigmata, and by the general simplicity of the antennae. 



Sp. 1. rhomboidea. Plate 19. f. I. 8. — Alis anticis rubro-brunneis,tincturd rosed, 

 maculu rhomhoided alterdque triangulari riifo-fuscis ; antennis maris pectinatis. 

 —(Exp. alar. $ 1 unc. 8 Un. : ^ 1 unc. 6 lin.) 



No. rhomboidea. Esper ? — Gr. rhomboidea. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 68. No. 

 6108. 



A beautiful species : head and thorax cinereous, irrorated with rosy : anterior 

 wings reddish or ashy-brown tinted with bright rose-colour, with a red-brown 

 rhomboid spot, and a triangular one near the stigmata ; at the base is an obscure 

 abbreviated undulated dusky striga, a second, much waved anteriorly, before the 



