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BUPALUS FAVILLACEARIUS. 



The grey Scollop. 



Order Lejndoptera. Fam. Phalaenidae Lat..^ Leach. 



Type of the Genus B. favillacearius. 



BuPALUS Leach. Phalsena Linn., Fab., Lut. Geometra Hub., Haw. 

 Antenna; setaceous, bipectinated in the males (1.); the branches 

 ciliated (1. a.), slightly serrated in the females. (2. a portion of 

 the antenna magnified.) 

 Max'illiB short, rather broad and flat. (3.) 



Labial palpi 2, covered with scales, slightly hirsute (4.), shorter 

 than the head, scarcely projecting beyond the eyes viewed in pro- 

 file (7. a.), 3-jointed ; first joint long, curved upwards j third 

 joint very small, nearly globose. (4. a.) 

 Wings very much dejiexed when at rest, not angulated or indeiited. 

 Body slender. Anterior legs with a spine on the internal side of the 

 tibia arising near the base and extending to the first joint of the 

 tarsus (8.),- the middle and posterior legs with sptirs at the apex of the 

 tibia", the latter with spurs also in the middle. 

 Caterpillars loopers, with 6 pectoral, 2 abdominal, and 2 anal feet. 



Favillacearius (male) Hub. Schmet. Geo.pl. 26. f 139. Haw.Lep. 

 Brit. p. 278. n. 19. 



Male hoary white, slightly tinged with ochraceous, covered with 

 irregular minute spots ; superior wings with a blacK transverse 

 indented striga near the base, another dentated internally at the 

 nervures, nearly parallel with the posterior margin, with two 

 large dark spots on its external side, a long black spot near the 

 disk, and a line of small black spots along the base ot the cilia ; 

 inferior wings with a dentated waved dark line nearly parallel 

 with the margin and a dark spot towards the centre ; cilia yel- 

 lowish brown. Eyes, antenme and legs nearly black. Female 

 smaller, the superior wings more brown, the inferior blackish. 



In the Cabinets of Mr. Dale and the Author. 



Dr. Leach, in establishing the Genus Bupaliis, has given 

 Phalecna j)iniaria Linn, as an example, to which may be added 

 Geometra ericetaria Vill., and probably G.fidiginaria and ato- 

 maria Lum. 



