NOCTUID/E. — GL^.A. 159 



Sp. 10. superstes. AHs anticis cinereo-cancscentibus fusco pidverideniilms stri- 



gisquc punctatis ; posticis albidis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 4 lin.) 

 Ca. superstes. Ochsenheimer? Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 75. N'o. 6163. 



Rather larger than the last, -which it greatly resembles : the head, thorax, and 

 anterior wings are of a hoary ash, the latter clouded with dusky, and irro- 

 rated, especially towards the base, with fuscous ; stigmata very small, the 

 anterior fuscous, minute, the posterior slender, sublunate, internally pale, with 

 a minute white dot on its edge ; between this and the hinder margin is an 

 undulated striga, rufescent interiorly and pale without, the margin itself 

 midway from the posterior stigma is fuscous, slightly clouded with cinereous, 

 with a series of subtrigonate dusky or black dots on the extreme edge ; cilia 

 ashy-brown : posterior wings whitish, with the nervures and margin dusky : 

 «ilia ashy-white. 



Found in similar places with the foregoing, but much less fre- 

 quent. 



Sp. 11. glareosa. Plate 21. f. 1. — Alls anticis cinerascentibus, macula sub- 

 quadratd nigrd inter stigmatd ordinarid, strigisque duabus costalibus ab- 

 breviatis, interruptis, versus basi?i; posticis albis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 2 — 4 lin.) 



No. glareosa. Esper. — Ca. glareosa. Steph. Catal. part \i. p. 75. No. 6164. 



Head, thorax, and anterior wings, pale hoary-ash ; the latter with an abbre- 

 viated striga at the base, composed of two black streaks ; between which and 

 the anterior stigma is a second striga, composed of three distinct spots, the 

 central one being triangular and largest, and from the third an obscure 

 dusky line, with a pale internal edge, traverses the wing to the inner margin ; 

 between the posterior stigma and the hinder margin are two pale striga?, the 

 first edged internally with pale fuscous, and slightly bent; the second very 

 faint, and a Uttle undulated ; the space between sometimes dusky ; on the 

 hinder margin is a row of faint cinereous spots ; the stigmata are large, pale, 

 and indistinct, and between them is a subquadrate or triangular black spot : 

 posterior wings and ciUa white, with a yellowish tinge : antennse griseous. 



This beautiful insect, which is admirably represented in Plate 

 264. f. 416 a. of the Papiilons d'Europe, has not been very fre- 

 quently met with in England: my specimens were captured in 

 the neighbourhood of Birch-wood; others have been taken, I 

 believe, in the New Forest, and one in Devonshire. 



Genus XCIX. — Gl^a, H'ubner. 



Palpi very short, porrect, horizontal, triarticulate, not very robust, clothed with 

 elongate scales, the terminal joint concealed ; the basal joint nearly as long 

 as the second, a little bent, the second more slender than the first, slightly 

 curved, and narrowed towards the tip; terminal joint minute, ovate, obtuse: 

 ■nia3'ill(B shorter than the antennae. Antenna; rather long, stout, generally 



