222 THE entomologist's recohd. 



The veins of the forewings are only approximately drawn, vein 11 

 running into the apex of the wing instead of into the costa about mid- 

 way. There are only eight veins shown on the left wing, and seven 

 on the right ; the black discal spots are not indicated. The brighter 

 British examples of the female conform very well with Hiibner's figure, 

 and, doubtless, he had a specimen from Vienna similar to these before 

 him, when he drew it. In the figure in another copy of this work of 

 Hiibner, the subcostal vein is not darkened, and the other veins are 

 thickly, and rather confusedly, coloured. 



Desckiption of British examples of Dephessaria putridella. — 

 This is rather a small species, and belongs to that section of the genus 

 in which veins 2 and 3 of the forewings are stalked, or, in other words, 

 in which the lowest vein from the cell is forked near the base. Head, 

 thorax, and patagia, unicolorous with the ground colour of the fore- 

 wings. The face always paler ; second joint of the labial palpi 

 ochreous, mixed with fuscous, usually lighter internally; terminal 

 joint pale ochreous, sometimes with dark basal band ; antennae fuscous. 

 Body ochreous- brown, with a fuscous sublateral stripe on each side 

 beneath. Anal tuft of the J ochreous-grey. Front and middle legs 

 ochreous-grey, darker marked, hind legs pale ochreous on the inner 

 side, darker, and sometimes fuscous-spotted, on the outer side. Fore- 

 wings rather wide, the costa slightly arched, and the hind margin 

 obliquely rounded. Ground colour pale ochreous-brown, purest on the 

 inner margin and costa. Near the base a blackish transverse mark 

 running from near the inner margin into the fold, well-defined towards 

 the base. Outwardly, this dark mark expands into a longitudinal 

 cloud which lies along the middle of the wing, including the discoidal 

 spots, and sometimes runs nearly up to the apex. The veins of the 

 wing, except the subcostal (vein 12), are very darkly marked with 

 purplish-fuscous. On the last third of the costa, and on the extreme 

 hind margin, is a series of eight or more black spots lying between the 

 veins, and occasionally connected with them. In some specimens there 

 is a short dark cloud lying obliquely across the wing before the hind 

 margin. On the extreme base of the costa is a dark mark, and the 

 paler parts of the wing are often sprinkled with dark scales. About 

 one-third from the base of the wing, and situated near where vein 11 

 rises from the cell, is a black spot. Below this, in the cell itself, but 

 further from the base, lies the first discal spot, usually black, often 

 elongate. On the disco-cellular lies the second discal spot, which is 

 very conspicuous, being black with a white centre. Midway between 

 the two discal spots, and in a line with them, lies an usually black 

 spot. These four spots vary much in size, shape, and in the absence! 

 or presence of white scaling, but the three in the cell are always in al 

 line. The fringes are dark ochreous-grey, with one central paler line,| 

 and a second on the extreme margin. 



The hindwings dark grey, lighter at the base, the veins somewhat! 

 darker marked ; some dark spots round apex and hind margin. Fringes] 

 dark grey or dark ochreous-brown, often bisected by a paler line. 



Sexual dimorphism. — The antennae of the <? are stouter than those! 

 of the 5 . The forewings are more unicolorous than those of the ? ,1 

 which, even in dark specimens, shows a greater contrast between the] 

 paler costal and inner marginal areas, as compared with the darker disci 

 of the wing. The ground colour of the hindwings in the <y is darker,! 



