GKLECIIID.T".. 7') 



Head and face pale jiTevish-ocliiTous. Pal])! pale gToyisli-ochreous ; 

 tuft of the sccoinl joint bcncatli pale iuscous. Antenna- pale greyisli- 

 oclireous. Anterior winu's pale greyish-ochreous, with a dark fuscous 

 streak above the fold, from the base to beyond the middle, a dark 

 fuscous spot on the fold before the middle, and another on the disc 

 beyond the middle ; cilia pale ochrcous. Posterior wings whitish-grey, 

 with whitish-ochreous cilia. 



In the variety acinackh'Ua of lliibner, the anterior wings are very 

 much streaked with dark fuscous, and there is an ailditional dark fus- 

 cous spot towards the inner margin near the base. 



Not common; most frec|neiitly found on tlie chalk ; a])pears in 

 August mill Se]jtembcr, and again in spring. The larva feeds on 

 the spindle in June and July. 



Family Y. CIELECHID.E. 



Cnput Iceve. PaJpl labiales recurvati, raro breves, interdura articulo 

 secundo in fasciculum produeto. AJa; posteriorcs Iatiusc!d)V, StCpe 

 trapezoidales vel ovato-hiiiceolatit;, raro acuminatcc {FaucaHa, Biitalls). 

 Larva pedibus 10 pnedita. 



Head smouth. Labial palpi recurved, generally long, sometimes with 

 the second joint prolonged as a tuft. Posterior wi)igs rather broad, 

 often trapezoidal, or ovate-lanceolate, rarely acuminate {Fancalia, Bit- 

 talin). Larva with sixteen feet. 



There is great discrepancy between llie species composing the 

 family, and no doubt future investigations, and the study of exo- 

 tic forms, will enable us to subdivicle it. Many individual genera 

 are perhaps only types of extensive families, which have no 

 other representativ^es in the temperate climate of Europe; and 

 the discovery of species in India, lirazil, etc., may hereafter show 

 that these isolated species are tliere represented more numerously, 

 just as we find to be the case among the Noctuin.v with Ca/jje 

 Thalictri and Calijptra liljalri.r, which, thougli anomalous among 

 our European species, are the representatives of extensive tropical 

 families. 



The genus Gclech'ia, which forms so important a part of this 

 famih', is far more numerous in s])ecies than any other genus of 

 TiXEiNA with which we are ac(praintetl. In some of tlie geiuTa 

 of this family {P/uhafoccra, lldrjjella, Jli/jjcrcallia, and IJas^ccra), 

 the species are remark al)!/^ for tlieir gay colouring; but the great S^ 

 bulk of the species in the other genera, would, in ordinary par- 

 lance, be termed inconspicuous insects. ]\lany of the species keep 

 themselves so well concealed, that they arc rarely met with in the 



