388 LEPIDOPTERA. 



1. L. lienigianus, ZcU. — Expanse } to | inch (18-22 

 mm.) ■ Fore wings short, the lobes rather broad ; shining 

 pale drab, dusted with brown ; a curved black streak lies 

 before the fissure, and beyond it two black dashes on the 

 costa ; hind wings shining whitish-brown. 



Antennas of the male slender, simple, pale drab, annulated 

 with white ; palpi minute, threadlike, pale brown ; head, 

 thorax, and abdomen whitish -drab. Fore wings rather 

 short, the two lobes broad, bluntly pointed, without anal 

 angle ; costa only arched beyond the middle, and the apex a 

 little bent over; dorsal margin not concave ; colour pale drab 

 or brownish-white, more ashj^ toward the base, otherwise 

 dusted with brown ; before the fissure is a black cloudy 

 crescent, and half-way between this and the base some- 

 times a black dot ; on the costa on the anterior lobe are two 

 black streaks or dashes, and the apex of both lobes is faintly 

 blackened ; cilia dark brown. Hind wings moderately short, 

 divided to the base, the third lobe short ; glossy grey-brown ; 

 cilia of the same or darker colour. Legs shining white- 

 Female similar, but a little stouter. 



Underside of the fore wings smoky drab, the costa paler, 

 and the markings as on the upper side ; hind wings glossy 

 pale grey. Body pale drab. 



On the wing from the middle of June till August. 



Larva three-eighths of an inch long ; head a little smaller 

 than the second segment, and rather rounded, shining 

 greyish-brown, blotched with black-brown on the lobes and 

 between them ; body cylindrical though tapering a little 

 behind, pale glaucous green ; dorsal stripe broad, darker 

 bluish-green, divided by a fine thread of the ground colour ; 

 sub-dorsal line thin, yellow;ish-vvhite, and just above it is a 

 whitish-grey parallel streak ; all these regularly interrupted 

 at the segmental divisions, which are somewhat yellow ; 

 spiracles white, ringed with brown ; there is a white wart on 

 the hinder part of the side of the third and fourth segments ; 



