138 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



period other examples have occurred near Ringwood, Hants, in the 

 autumn. 



Genus XCIII. — Semiophora* mihi. 



Palpi short, very hairy at the base, the terminal joint exposed and scaly ; tri- 

 articulate, the basal joint slightly bent, stout, not half as long as the second, 

 which is elongate, slightly attenuated, the terminal one minute, ovate, sub- 

 trimcate : maxillce as long as the antennae. Antennw bipectinated in the males, 

 serrated in the females, each joint producing a bristle on both sides : head 

 small, pilose : thorax stout, woolly, not crested : body not very stout, short : 

 wings entire, slightly deflexed, anterior elongate, narrowed at the base, rather 

 acute at the tip, posterior abbreviated, subtrigonate : legs short : femora 

 woolly. Larva naked, exposed : pupa subterranean. 



This genus should i^nquestionably be separated either from 

 Episema, with which it is associated by Ochsenheimer, or from 

 Graphiphora, to which Treitschke removes it, and amongst which 

 (under the improper name of Noctua, after Schrank) Boisduval 

 places it in his recent Catalogue of European Lepidoptera. It is 

 evident from the above remark that the insect in question offers 

 some peculiarities. I shall therefore, in this, as in other instances, 

 fearlessly consider such very discordant species as belonging to un- 

 characterized genera, as a more correct view of species must be 

 obtained by separating dissimilar individuals, than by uniting them, 

 in order to avoid applying a new generic term. From the pre- 

 ceding genera the present differs by the woolliness of its smooth 

 thorax, the brevity of the posterior wings, by reposing with the 

 anterior ones deflexed, &c. 



Sp. 1. gothica. Alls anticis griseo-fuscescentibus, arcu lineoldque medio atris, 

 stigmatibus margine pallide solo conspicuis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 7 lin.) 



Ph. No. gothica. Linne. — Se. gothica. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 70. No. 6128. 



Head and thorax clothed with reddish or griseous-brown wooUy hairs : anterior 

 wings brownish-griseous, with two black spots (frequently confluent) at the 

 base, in place of the ordinary basal striga, then three equidistant obsolete pale 

 strigse, each arising from a dusky or black costal spot ; between the two an- 

 terior of which is a conspicuous arcuated black spot, and an oblong black 

 line, the space between being brown : the anterior stigma, of which the pale 

 ashy margin alone is visible, forms the inner segment of the arch, and the 

 posterior one, of which also the pale margin alone is apparent, is placed 



'Xyi/jitiov signum, (^t^u tcro. 



