154 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



hinder margin is a slightly undulated pallid streak, edged internally with 

 dusky : ciUa fuscous : posterior wings in the male whitish, with the margin 

 more or less fuscous ; cilia ochraceous ; in the female dusky, with pale ciUa. 



The stigmata are sometimes but little paler than the wings, and have frequently 

 a quadrate dusky or black spot between them : the colour of the wings varies 

 excessively, and the intensity of the markings ; in some examples there is a 

 fuscous streak between the stigmata, as in many of the Orthosis. 



Caterpillar dirty yellow, with a pale lateral line, and black streaks and dots 

 behind; head brown, with three dusky streaks: the insect appears in 

 August. 



An abundant species throughout the metropolitan district; I 

 have also found it near Hastings, Brighton, and Dover, and in the 

 Isle of Wight. " Netley, Salop, in plenty." — Rev, F. W. Hope. 

 " Epping." — Mr. H. Douhleday. 



Sp. 2. neglecta. Plate 21. f. 2. Alis anticis obscure^ cinereis, strigis e punctis 

 tninutissimis atris, stigma postica macul/i fused. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 7 — 9 Un.) 

 No. neglecta. H'dhner. — Se. neglecta. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 74. No. 6151. 



Head, thorax, and anterior wings, obscure cinereous, sometimes tinted with rosy, 

 and thickly irrorated with very minute fuscous dots ; the ordinary strigae ob- 

 literated, and in place of the third an arcuated series of minute black spots, 

 between which and the hinder margin is a slightly undulated striga, dusky 

 within, and pale without : cilia slightly tinted with rosy ; posterior stigma 

 with a dusky spot ; anterior nearly obsolete : posterior wings fuscous, with 

 the base rather paler, and a darker lunule in the centre. 



Rare, at least near London : the only example that I remember 

 to have been captured in the metropolitan district was found in 

 September, 1816, at Birch-wood, and is in my collection. The 

 male, whence the accompanying figure was designed, was captured 

 in the New Forest by J. C. Dale, Esq. " Near llingwood, in 

 September." — Messrs. Bentley and Chant. 



Genus XCVIII. — Caradrina, Oclisenhelmer. 



Palpi rather short, somewhat porrect, a httle ascending, squaraose, the terminal 

 joint exposed at the apex ; triarticulate, slender, basal joint reniform, about 

 one-third the length of the second, which is very long, slightly bent, and a 

 little narrowed towards the apex ; terminal, minute, ovate-obtuse : maxillw 

 not longer than the antennae. Antennw slender, more or less ciliated in both 

 sexes: Aead small, densely squamose : eyes small, naked: thorax moderately 

 stout, obsoletely crested : wings slightly deflexed, entire, very glossy ; anterior 

 with strigfe and distinct stigmata : body rather slender, acute at the tip in the 

 female, tufted in the males : legs rather short, not very stout : femora with 

 moderate fascicles of hair. Larva naked : pupa subterranean. 



