PHVCITIDA^—PHVCITA. 4" 



1. P. spissicella, F. ; roborella, Zk. — Expanse 1 to 1^ 

 inch. Antennffi of the male conspicuously thickened or 

 knotted near the base ; fore wings elongate, reddish-grej- 

 with red-brown clouding ; a distinct red-brown dorsal blotch 

 lies before the first line. Hind wings smoky brown. 



Antennae of the male simple, thickened, brown, the basal 

 joint short, the second expanded into an oval flattened knot, 

 hollowed and blackened at the back ; palpi slender, pointed, 

 projecting, brown ; head and thorax purplish-brown ; abdo- 

 men rather thick, glistening, pale-brown faintly barred with 

 white. Fore wings elongated, rather narrow but becoming 

 a little wider behind ; costa very gently arched ; apex bluntly 

 angulated ; hind margin a little rounded but hardly oblique ; 

 pale brown clouded with red-brown ; basal space tinged with 

 red ; first line far from the base, rather oblique, black, pre- 

 ceded by a large cloudy red-black triangular spot on the 

 dorsal margin, edged with white ; second line erect but a 

 little sinuous, red-black, edged outwardly with white ; at the 

 end of the discal cell are several divergent black streaks on 

 nervures, surrounding a white streak ; extreme hind margin 

 edged with short black lines ; cilia glossy pale brown. Hind 

 wings ample, rounded behind, uniformly smoky brown with 

 a golden gloss ; cilia shining but paler. Female having simple 

 antennas devoid of any excrescence ; the fore wings a little 

 broader, and often darker, otherwise similar. 



Underside of the fore wings shining smoky brown, with a 

 black cloud on the costa near the apex ; hind wings pale 

 smoky brown. Body and legs light brown. 



On the wing from the end of June till August, in one 

 generation. 



Larva one inch in length ; back and sides dark purplish- 

 brown ; dorsal line thin, of the same colour, edged with paler 

 freckles ; three other, still finer, lines of pale freckles follow 

 on either side ; head and second segment glistening dark 

 purplish-brown, the former with a paler streak across the 



