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Sp. 14. Lithorhiza. Alls anticis cincrascenti-Juscis, fascia mediCi irregulari 

 fused, stigmat'ihus duohus ordinariis cinereis subconJluentiLus. (Exp. alar. 

 1 unc. 3 — 4 lin.) 

 No. Lithorhiza. Bork. — Ha. Lithorhiza. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 81. No. 6208. 



Head and thorax ashy-brown, with paler transverse shades : abdomen also of 

 the same hue, with its tuft and lateral margins more or less rufescent : an- 

 terior wings ashy-brown; with an irregular fuscous fascia in the middle, 

 very much attenuated towards the inner margin, but nearly touching the 

 costa, which is spotted with fuscous ; in this fascia the stigmata are placed : 

 they are large, the anterior one composed of two ovate spots, one of which is 

 mostly united to the posterior stigma ; a black streak arises at the base of 

 the wing, and unites to the central fascia, and is sometimes continued in a 

 very irregular curved streak to the anal angle ; on the hinder margin is a row 

 of irregular subtrigonate fuscous spots ; the cilia are very long, cinereous, in- 

 terrupted by white, with a few black spots at the tip : posterior wings fuscous, 

 the hinder margin with an interrupted darker streak : ciUa rosy. 



In many points, especially in the early period of its flight, this singular and 

 variable insect differs from the rest of the genus ; but I have not ventured to 

 separate it ; its comparatively more exposed and hairy palpi, elongate cilia, 

 and obscure posterior striga on the anterior wings, may be noticed as ex- 

 ternal characters of distinction : — in many respects it approaches towards the 

 genus Calophasia. 



Not uncommon on trunks of trees, and old palings and walls, 

 during the latter part of April, throughout the metropolitan di- 

 strict. « Southend, in April, 1829." —Rev. F. W. Hope. " Alder- 

 ley, Cheshire." — Rev. E. Stanley. 



Sp. 15. Cucubali. Alls anticis purjmrascenti-fuscis, stigmatihus divergentibus 

 Jlavicinctis, striga piirpurascentc alteracjue ad marginem posticum dentatd 

 Jlavescente. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 5 lin.) 



No. Cucubali. Wien. Ferz. — Ha. CucubaU. Steph. Catal part ii. p. 82. No. 

 6209. 



Head and thorax fuscous, mixed with ashy and black atoms : anterior wings of 

 a purplish-brown, with brighter shades of purple, and darker dusky spots 

 and ashy tints; with the ordinary strigae black or fuscous, the third gemi- 

 nated and placed on a purplish ground, forming a streak of that hue; the 

 fourth is very much dentated or angulated and yellowish; on the hinder 

 margin of the wing itself is a row of interrupted dusky lunules ; the stigmata 

 are divergent, and are elongate and slender, with yellowish margins ; the 

 ciUa are fuscous, interrupted with pale slender and a little clouded with 

 black : posterior wings ochreous brown at the base, the hinder margin with 

 a deep-brown fimbria, with a very obscure pale striga on its inner margin 

 towards the centre of the wing, where is a dusky spot : abdomen ashy-brown, 

 with darker spots on the back. 



Caterpillar greenish, varied with cinereous, with obbcure dusky spots; it feeds on 



