172 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTEBA. 



The pair of this insect in the British Museum were taken near 

 London, I believe, by Mr. Neale : those in Mr. Haworth's cabinet 

 he obtained from Mr. Francillon's collection ; and mine was kindly 

 given to me by Captain Blomer, who captured the insect near 

 Teignmouth, Devon. " Near Sidmouth, Devon." — T. Marshall, 

 Esq. 



Sp. 6. putris. AUs anticis Jlavo-alhidis, viargine anteriori stigmatihusque fuscis, 

 strigdque geminatd jmndorum 7ugrorum. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 5 lin.) 



Ph. No. putris. Linne. — Xy. putris. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 78. No. 6183. 

 Albin. pi. Ixxix.^ a — d. 



Head yellowish, with two dusky longitudinal streaks: thorax anteriorly yel- 

 lowish, posteriorly fuscous ; anterior wings pale-yellowish or ochraceous, with 

 the costa fuscous ; the stigmata rather obsolete, the anterior orbicular, fus- 

 cous, frequently with a pale margin ; the posterior also fuscous, with a pale 

 margin and a flexuous whitish streak in the middle ; from this to the hinder 

 margin extends a double oblique fuscous striga ; and at the anal angle is a 

 fuscous spot ; between the posterior stigma and the hinder margin is a gemi- 

 nated striga of black spots, placed parallel with the latter ; the hinder margin 

 itself, and the tips of the cUia, are also spotted with black: the posterior 

 wings are pale-ochraceous or fuscous, with the hinder margin spotted with 

 brown : cilia pale : abdomen yellowish. 



Caterpillar yellowish-brown, spotted with black, and striated with pale yellow 

 and whitish, with a yellowish dorsal Une : the head brown-black : it feeds on 

 grasses: the imago appears about the middle of June. 



Not uncommon in many places throughout the metropolitan 

 district, frequenting hedges, weedy banks, and gardens ; also the 

 vicinity of woods and grassy places. " Epping." — Mr. H. Double- 

 day. 



Genus CV. — Calocampa* mihi. 



Palpi short, oblique, robust ; triarticulate, densely squamous, the terminal joint 

 concealed, basal much shorter than the second and more robust, terminal 

 ovate truncate : maxillcs the length of the antennae. Antennw rather short, 

 stout in the males, and ciliated beneath : head small, with a dense frontal 

 crest: eyes naked, small: thorax quadrate, with a small anterior crest: 

 wings convoluted or incumbent ; anterior elongate, sublinear, denticulated on 

 the hinder margin : body short, depressed, the apex with a small tuft in the 

 male. Larva smooth: pupa foUiculated, with two elongate spines at the 

 apex. 



Kakos pulcher, xa/x.^rn emca. 



