128 LEPIDOPTERA. 



subsequent capture of the species is on record, although 

 during the subsequent half-century many Entomologists, 

 including residents at Dover, have searched for it, there does 

 not seem to me sufficient evidence to warrant its inclusion in 

 the British fauna. 



Abroad it inhabits Central Europe and South-east Eussia.] 



Genus 6. SCHCENOBIUS. 



Antenna3 simple, roughly ciliated ; palpi pointed, porrected, 

 very long and conspicuous : maxillary pair pointed, tongue 

 nudeveloped ; fore wings long and narrow, blunt in the male, 

 s-harply angulated in the female; hind wings long and rather 

 narrow, rounded at the tip ; cell closed, and the cross-bar 

 oblique; median nervure hardly feathered, but somewhat 

 swollen. 



We have three species, awkward for tabulation from the 

 disparity in the sexes. This attempt avoids the obvious 

 sexual characters of sliapc and size. 

 A. Fore wings light red-brown or yellow-brown, a complete 



pale costal stripe on both sexes. S. mucronellus. 

 :\?. Fore wings pale yellow-brown or ochreous, a dark brown 



oblique dash runs into the apex, in both sexes. 



S. forficcllus. 

 A^ Fore wings dull pale brown with mottled umbreous 



markings. S. gigantellus, male. 



A*. Fore wings pale wainscot - brown, usually without 



markings. »S'. gigantrllus, female. 



1. S. gigantellus, (Sc/tij^'. — Expanse of male IJ; inch, of 

 female 1^ to If inch. Fore wings of the male elongated, 

 rounded behind, pale dull brown with obscure umbreous dots, 

 and similar shading toward the costa ; of the female much 

 larger and more pointed, pale wainscot-brown. Hind wings 

 white with brown shades and dashes, or pure white. 



Antennas of the male simple, rather short, dark brown. 



