174 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Not common : it occurs in gardens and in woody places : I have 

 taken it at Darentli-wood, and possess a specimen captured near 

 Plymouth : it has been found near Oxford ; and in several places 

 near London. 



Sp. 2. vetusta. Alis anticis parte anteriori pallide, interiori obscure Juscis, 

 maculd ohlonga unicd. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 10 lin. — 2 unc. 2 lin.) 



No. vetusta. Hiibner. — Ca. vetusta. Stej)h. Catal. part ii. p. 79. No. 6185. — 

 Ph. No. exoleta. Don. vi. pi. 187 ? imago. 



Closely allied to the preceding, but totally different in the larva state : it differs 

 chiefly in having the anterior wings of a bright reddish ochre on the costa, 

 and of an obscure fuscous within, with the anterior stigma nearly obsolete, 

 the posterior distinct, with a single black spot adjoining, and the longitudinal 

 streak of the former species nearly absorbed in the fuscous ground of the 

 inner margin : the thorax and posterior wings are of a deeper hue, and the 

 abdomen is less clouded towards the apex. 



Caterpillar dirty green, spotted with whitish, with a yellowish dorsal and whitish 

 lateral line, the stigmata red : it feeds on Carex : the imago, like the last, 

 appears in the autumn. 



Donovan appears to have figured this species by mistake for Ca. exoleta. He 

 consequently is the first English writer who furnishes us with a knowledge of 

 the insect in question, notwithstanding he erroneously considered it as the 

 Ph. No. exoleta of Linne. 



A rare species : the only locality that I am aware of is Darenth- 

 wood, where the insect has been taken several times. 



Genus CVI. — Xylophasia* miJil. 



Palpi rather elongate, slightly ascending; triarticulate ; the two basal joints 

 densely clothed with elongate scales, the terminal considerably exposed; the 

 basal joint rather shorter and more robust than the second, the terminal elon- 

 gate-ovate, somewhat acute : maxilla; as long as the antennae. Antennw simple, 

 more or less ciliated, or pilose, in the males ; thorax quadrate, with a small 

 crest in front : wings deflexed, anterior rather elongate, subtriangular, the 

 base being narrowed ; hinder margin more or less denticulated : bodi/ elon- 

 gated, stout, not depressed, the back carinated, each segment with a dorsal 

 crest; apex, in the male, with a large tuft, in the female, narrowed, subUnear, 

 with a small tuft. Larva naked : pupa subterranean, with a spine at the 

 apex. 



Xylophasia may be distinguished with facility from Calocampa 

 by the exposed terminal joint of its palpi, elongated and distinctly 

 carinated body, which has the apex with a large tuft in the male, 



* 'SvKov lignum, (fictin; apparitio. 



