164 TIAUSTF.LLATA. — LF.PI DOPTl'.R A. 



by the compactness and smoothness of the scales which clothe the 

 palpi throughout; also by the lively colouring, especially of the 

 posterior wings. 



Sp. 1. pyramidea. yilis anticis fuscis, strigis tribiis vndalis repandis, macuJiiqiie 

 ocellari Jlavescentibus ; posticis cupreis, cost ft lafissim''; fuscn. (Exp. alar. 

 1 unc. 8 lin. — 2 ur.c.) 



Ph. No. pyramidea. Linn'-. — Don. \\. pi. \9% — An. pyramidea. Steph. Caial. 

 part ii. p. 77. No. 6172. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous; the lateral tufts on this last of a deeper 

 hue, with pale tips ; anterior wings deep fuscous, more or less varied with 

 griseous, with three undulated repanded yellowish strigae, edged with fuscous ; 

 the first before the middle of the wing, the second behind the middle, the 

 last towards the hinder margin ; between the two first the anterior stigma, 

 which alone is visible, is placed ; this is yellowish, with a black or fuscous 

 pupil ; posterior wings bright copper-colour, with the anterior margin fuscous. 



This beautiful insect varies exceedingly ; in some specimens the general colour 

 is pale griseous-yellow, with the usual markings; in others of a deep fuscous, 

 with the posterior wings of a dingy copper-colour. 



Caterpillar green, with a whitish dorsal and lateral line, and a large conical 

 protuberance on the anal segment:— it feeds on the oak : the imago is found 

 in the beginning of August. 



Not very abundant near London ; found sometimes in beating 

 the oaks in Coombe-wood, Richmond Park, and Epping Forest : 

 in great profusion near Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, during 

 the summer of 1821. " Epping."— Jfr. H. Douhleday. " Coles- 

 \\\\\"—Rev. W. T. Bree. " Stoke Bliss, Herefordshire."— i?£;z'. 

 F. W. Hope. 



Genus CI. — Pyrophila mihi. 



Palpi rather elongate, recurved, triarticulate, clothed with short velvety 

 scales, the terminal joint short, stout, conical, obtuse, about half the length 

 of the basal, which is slender, considerably bent, above half the length of 

 the second; the latter rather stouter than the basal, slightly curved, ob- 

 liquely truncate at the apex : maxillw not so long as the antennae : antennce 

 rather long, very slender, slightly ciliated in both sexes : head moderate, with 

 a dense crest between the antennae : eyes rather prominent, naked : thorax 

 not crested : wings incumbent, entire, very glossy, stigmata obsolete, colours 

 uniform ; posterior somewhat metallic, obscurely indented : abdomen de- 

 pressed, especially in the females, with a tuft at the apex : legs moderate ; 

 tihice rather stout. Larva naked, without any caudal appendage : pupa folli- 

 cidatcd. 



Pyrophila may be known by the sombre colours which tint its 

 glossy wings, combined with the recurvation of its palpi : from 



