100 HAUSTELLATA. — I-KPIDOPTERA. 



amongst the few which I have still retained in the genus, but as no 

 material advantage would be gained by separating them into genera, 

 I shall merely divide the genus into sections. 



A. With, the palpi very hairy : the antennae rather long : head moderately large, 

 a. Tlie cluh of the antenna moderatelij stout, straight, no hook at the tip. 



Sp. 1. Paniscus. Alls supra nigro-fuscis fulvo maculatis, posticis subtiis fulvis 

 maculis Jlavescentihus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 2 — 3 lin.) 



He. Paniscus. Fahricius. — Pap. Paniscus. Don. viii. p/. 25 i. f. 1. — Pam. Pa- 

 niscus. Steph. Catal. 



Wings above black-brown, spotted with tawny : anterior with a central blotch, 

 followed by an interrupted band, intersected with black veins, with two 

 smaller posterior spots, and a marginal band of tawny dots : posterior wings 

 with three discoidal spots, and a row of dots, varying in number, parallel with 

 the hinder margin, all tawny : fringe tawny, black at the base : beneath, the 

 anterior wings are yellowish, with three discoidal spots, then four or five 

 smaller posterior ones, and the nervures at the hinder margin brownish ; the 

 posterior wings yellowish-brown, with seven larger spots, five of which are 

 on the disc, and five smaller on the hinder margin, all of a paler hue ; on the 

 hinder margin is a pale yellowish streak. 

 The colour and size of the spots vary greatly ; and some specimens have the 

 whole of the dusky-brown thickly irrorated with yellowish, both above and 

 below : the sexes differ but little in colour. 



X Sp. 2. Sylvius. AUs anticis Jlavis nigro maculatis, posticis fuscisjlavo macu~ 

 latis. ( Exp. alar. 1 unc. 2 lin.) 



Pap. Sylvius. Knoch. — Pam. Sylvius. Steph. Catal 



Anterior wings above fulvous yellow, Avith fovu- discoidal spots, and seven or 

 eight parallel with the hinder margin black ; the hinder margin dusky, with a 

 brownish fringe : posterior wings brown, with four discoidal spots, and about 

 five towards the outer margin yellow ; the outer margin brown, with a yel- 

 lowish fringe : beneath, the wings are nearly concolorous, but the hinder 

 margin of the anterior has a chain-like series of brown spots, united by a 

 black line on each nervure with the margin ; the posterior wings have a 

 similar terminal band, but the discoidal spots are the same as on the upper 

 surface; the brown ground is irrorated with yellow; the fringe is yellowish. 



I imagine that the present insect was formerly placed in British cabinets, in 

 lieu of the Pam. Paniscus, which, until recently, was with difficulty procured 

 by the entomologists of this country : I have a specimen which I obtained 

 from an old collection, in which it was called by the name just mentioned, 

 and in that of G. Milne, Esq. F.L.S. are other specimens, but beyond these I 

 have not sufficient authority for introducing this insect into our Fauna. Mr. 

 Milne gave no further account of his insects than that he believed them to be 

 Pam. Paniscus, but knew not their origin ; of my specimen the authority is 

 equally unsatisfactory. 



