i6o LEPIDOPTERA. 



with black half way from the apex ; cilia yellowish-white. 

 Body and leg-tufts yellowish-white ; legs pale brown. 



Apparently not variable, except a little in size. 



On the wing in September and October. 



Larva and Pupa apparently unknown. 



This is one of the most rare of British insects, and nothing 

 is known here of its habits. The late Mr. Henry Doubleday 

 recorded in the Zoologist for 1862 the capture, by Mr. T. 

 Thorncroft, of Brighton, Sussex, of two specimens, both 

 females, of this species in October of that year. One of 

 these was presented by him to Mr. Doubleday and is still in 

 his cabinet at Bethnal Green Museum. The other was 

 purchased with Mr. Thorncroft's collection, some years later, 

 by the Eev. A. Fuller, who has allowed me to examine it. 

 It is decidedly smaller than ordinary South European 

 specimens, but unquestionably correctly named. Mr. Fuller 

 informs me that both specimens were captured at sugar, by 

 a sedgy ditch, nearer to Worthing than to Brighton. These 

 two are the only British specimens of which I have any 

 reliable account, but one or two more exist, without histories, 

 in some of our large collections. It is a very obscure insect 

 and might readily be overlooked among multitudes of the 

 common species. 



Abroad its range is very wide; the South of France, 

 Spain, Sardinia, the Canaries ; very common in South 

 Africa ; Syria, Ceylon, India, Burma, China, Japan, Java, 

 Ascension ; Brazil, and other parts of South America. 



11. L. unipuncta, Ham.; extranea, Gn. — Expanse 

 If inch. Fore wings elongate, rather triangular, reddish 

 umbreous; upper stigmata faintly visible, dull orange, a 

 white dot at the base of the reniform ; a black-brown oblique 

 line runs into the apex. Hind wings smoky-brown. 



Antennse of the male stout, rather short, dark brown, very 

 minutely ciliated ; palpi short, moderately tufted, dull brown. 



