272 Lloyd's natural historV. 



in Hypochalcia, which we are now considerhig, the antenna are 

 not tufted. The Phycidcc were a favourite group of the late 

 M. Ragonot ; and his monograph of the family is now being 

 published in vols. vii. and viii. of Romanoff's "Memoires " (vide 

 antea, vol. iv. pp. 190, 192). In Hypochalcia, the labial palpi 

 are long, and horizontally produced, with a long filiform 

 upturned terminal joint. The maxillary palpi are filiform, 

 parallel, and appressed to the face. The female is much 

 smaller than the male. 



THE DINGY VENEER. HYPOCHALCIA AHENELLA. 



(Plate CLIJL, Fig. 5 ) 



Tinea ahenella, Denis & Schiffermiiller, Syst. Verz. Schmett. 



Wien. p. 135, no. 32 (1776) ; Zincken in Germar, Mag. 



Ent. iii. p. 120 (1818). 

 Tinea aeneella, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. viii. figs. 41, 58 (1796?). 

 Phycis ahenella, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. ix. (i) p. 144 (1832). 

 Araxes ahenella^ Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iv. p. 316 



(1834). 

 The Dingy Veneer is found in Central and South Eastern 

 Europe. It expands from three-quarters of an inch to more 

 than an inch. 



The fore-wings are greyish-brown, more or less dusted with 

 ochre-yellow, and crossed transversely by two broad, ill-defined, 

 dark cherry-red bands, which coalesce at the inner margin ; the 

 first of these is straight before the middle, and the second is 

 waved behind the middle. These bands are sometimes very 

 indistinct, and the whole of the surface of the wings is then 

 almost uniform. The hind-wings are yellowish-grey, with 

 whitish fringes. 



CxENUS PALrARIA. {Pa/pariidcP.) 

 Crarnlus, Fabricius, Ent, Syst. Suppl. pp. 420, 464 (1793); 

 Leach, Edinb. Encycl. ix. p. 135 (18 15); Zeller, Chilon, et 



