262 ELACniSTID>E. 



38. rufocinerea, Haw. L. B. 535 (1829); Step.; Zell.— ? Jlos- 

 lactls, llavv. ; Step. Alls anticis ( (^ ) alljidis brunuesccnte suft'usis ; 

 posticis griseis. ( $ alis anticis albis dilutissime lutescente sufl'usis ; 

 posticis dilute griseis.) Exp. al. 4-5 lin. 



^ Head, face, and pal])i whitish. Antennse brownish. Anterior 

 wings whitish, very ranch suffused witli brownisli, the inner margin 

 and discoi(hil cell only remaining of the ground-colour ; cilia dirty- 

 whitish, with dark fuscous scales. Posterior wings dark grey, with 

 greyish-ochreous cilia. 



? Head, face, and palpi white. Antenuce whitish, annulatcd with 

 fuscous. Anterior wings whitish, with numerous scattered scales of a 

 very pale yellowish tint ; cilia whitish, with some fuscous scales. Pos- 

 terior wings pale grey, with yellowish cilia. 



A most abundant species tbrougliout the country ; it appears 

 at the end of April, directly the first warm weather sets in, and 

 continues throughout May; it especially frequents the sides of 

 hedges and ditches, where the males may be seen flying briskly 

 along, about sunset, just above the tops of the grass, in search of 

 the females, which may frequently be observed perched on the 

 summit of a blade of grass, with the wings in continual vibra- 

 tion. In spite of the excessive abundance of this insect, we have 

 hitherto failed in our attempts to find the larva; but the pupa 

 has, on three separate occasions, been met with : once on the 

 stem of a dock by Mr. Douglas, and I once fouiul it under a leaf 

 of Veronica Chavuedri/s, and once on the up])er side of an ivy-leaf, 

 where it lay conveniently in the angle of the leaf, with a silken 

 awning spread over it. 



o\). ochreella, Sta. Cat. p. 27 (184.9). — VM-.7iednlella, Sta. Alis 

 anticis ochreis, costam versus fuscesccutibus ; posticis fuscis, ochrco- 

 ciliatis. Exp. al. 5 lin. 



Head, face, and })alpi yellowish-ochreous. Antennrc fuscous. An- 

 terior wings yellowish-ochreous, somewhat fuscous along the costa, 

 especially at the base ; cilia yellowish-ochreous. Posterior wings fus- 

 cous, with ochreous cilia. 



Has occurred in the Cambridgeshire fens, and in the north of 

 England, in June. 



40. cygmpennella, Hiib. Tin. 207 (1801); Zell.; Hougl. Ent. 

 Trans, ii. n. s. 211. pi. xviii. f. 3. — cyr/nlpcnuis, Haw. — ei/ffiwUa, Treit. ; 

 Hup. — ? ('ugnipenneUa, Step. — (^ semialbella, Step. Alis ant icis 

 albis immaculatis ; posticis (^j) fuscis, albido-ciliatis ($ albidis, albo- 

 ciliatis). Exp. al. 5-0,^ lin. 



Head, face, palpi, and antenniL' white. Anterior wings innnaculatc, 

 wliitc! ; cilia white. Posterior wings (of the ($) fuscous, with whitish 

 cilia (of the *J whitish, with wliite cilia). 



