AXESYCIIIA. G3 



This pretty species is no coiiimuiier with us th;in the preceding; 

 it appears in May and August; the larva feeds on {Kc/ihau vvt- 

 (jare) viper's bugloss in July and October. 



3. funerella. Fab. Man. ii. 2t7. 71- (1787); Iliib. ; Godart ; ^. UT 

 Treit. ; Step.; Diip. ; Zell. — -fiiiierea, Haw. Alls auticis latioribus ^q-c_ 

 albis jjostice Aligns, coda pmeter maeulara albam pone medium late Irre- 

 f/uluritcr(j^ue nigra, nunctis duobus basim versus nigris. Exp. al. 7i 

 lin. 



Head white ; in the middle black, race white. Palpi dark grey ; 

 terminal joint black. Antcnntc dark fuscous. Anterior wings rather 

 broad, white, with deep l)lack spots and markings ; at the base of the 

 eosta is an oblong spot, and short streak immediately beyond it on the 

 costa ; beyond is an irregular-shaped costal blotch (leaving only a trian- 

 gular white spot on the costa beyond the middle), v:hich projects to- 

 wards the base and toicards the inner margin, and generally unites with 

 the black apical portion of the wing ; in the latter, towards the hinder 

 margin, are a few whitish scales ; towards the base, near the inner 

 margin, are two round black s})ots obliquely placed ; cilia dark grey, 

 with the tips whitish. Posterior wings dark fuscous ; towards the 

 inner margin whitish, with paler cilia. 



Long doubted as a British species ; recently taken in tolerable 

 plenty in the Candnidgesliirc fens in June. 



■t. decemguttella, Iliib. Tin. 303 (ISKi) ; 'J'rcit. ; Frey. ; Dup. ; 

 Zcll. — dodecea, Ilaw. ; Step. Alls anticis albis grisesccute-sull'usis, 

 piinclis nndecim magnis irrcgularibus atris. hjxp. al. 10 lin. 



Head and face white. Palpi black ; internally whitish ; terminal 

 joint whitish, with a black ring at the base and another towards the 

 apex. Antenna; dark fuscous. Anterior wings white, with a slight 

 greyish tint, with eleven rather large dark black spots, viz. two small at 

 the base, one on the subcostal vein, and one on the Ibid; nearly fol- 

 lowing the line of the fold arc four others, the first in the fold not hu' 

 from the base, the second a little below the fold, the third is larger, 

 and lies in the fold about the middle of the wing, the fourth and largest 

 is above the fold towards the anal angle; on the disc before the middle 

 are two spots, the anterior nearer to the costa ; in a line with the lower 

 one on the disc are two others, one beyond the middle, the other to- 

 wards the hinder margin, and near the eosta, nearly between these two, 

 is another spot; cilia whitish. Posterior wings dark greyish-fuscous, 

 with paler cilia. 



Not common; the perfect insect ai)pears in ]\lay and dune, 

 sitting on the tops of the Uowcrs of the JAl/iospermnin (according 

 to the interesting account of its habits given by ]\[r. Harding, in 

 the 'Zoologist' for TSfS, p. 2832). The larva feeds on that 

 plant in September and October. 



