L A REN TID.K— CHE. SI A S. 4 1 3 



From this district all our cabiuets are supplied, and happily 

 there seems at present to be little risk of its extermination 

 here. Yet so intensely local is it. in habit, that I am not 

 aware of a single straggler having l)eeu captured in an}' 

 other part of these Isles. Aliroad it is found in Holland, 

 Germany, the South of France and of Spain, the north of 

 Italy, Galicia, Hungary, lloumania, Southern iJussia, 

 Bithyuia. Pontus, and Armenia. 



Genus 2 1. CHESIAS. 



AntmiDK naked ; palpi short ; head rough and projecting 

 forwards ; thorax and abdomen smooth and moderately 

 slender, the latter very cylindrical : fore wings narrowly 

 ovate; hind wins'S lono' and narrow, without anal anule. 

 vein 1 very short. 



Lahvj, elongate, even in breadth, not very slender ; skin 

 velvety. 



PuP.Ewitli a blunt ventral protuberance. 



We have two species, sufficiently distinct. 



A. Fore wings umbreous, with a yellow-white stripe from 

 base to apex. C. fipartlahi. 



A-. Fore wings pale grey, with a broad light reddish- 

 brown band jjeyond the middle. C. iihlitjiKtric. 



1. C. spartiata, Fnh. — Expanse 1|- to IJ, inch. Fore 

 wings very long-oval, dark brown, with oval central spots. 

 and a yellow-white stripe from base to apex. Hind wings 

 smoky brownish-white. 



Antennas of the male simple, rather long, naked except for 

 a faint bloom, dark brown ; palpi pointed, rather prominent, 

 brown ; face prominently tufted forward, dark chocolate ; 

 head rough, brown ; neck-ridge and thorax dark chocolate, 

 but the shoulder-lappets light lirown ; abdomen slender. 



