288 LEPIDOPTERA. 



stated that he possessed a specimen of the moth captured in 

 Devonshire. Curtis furnished fairly correct information as 

 to the larva, adding that it is double-brooded abroad. The 

 first specimen of which we seem to have any definite account 

 was taken at Brighton, Sussex, on the 18th June 1858, and 

 was recorded with a sufficiently accurate description by 

 Mr. H. Cooke. The next was obtained by Mr. Chas. Healy 

 by beating a] beech-tree in Epping Forest, Essex, on the 

 12th June 1859 ; and another was secured that year at sugar, 

 in the middle of July at Marlow, Bucks, by the Kev. B. H. 

 Birks. I know of no other well-attested captures in this 

 country. Abroad it seems to be fairly common in Central 

 Europe, and to be found in the South of Sweden, the North 

 of Italy, Livonia, Dalmatia, the Ural Mountain district, and 

 in Tartary. 



Genus 5. HERMINTA. 



Antennas pectinated with fine teeth or bristles ; palpi long, 

 slender, projecting or curved upwards; eyes naked, without 

 lashes ; head furnished with projecting tufts ; thorax and 

 abdomen slender and smooth ; legs tufted, sometimes extra- 

 ordinarily so, occasionally incomplete ; fore wings broad and 

 rather short. 



Larvae with sixteen legs ; rather stout, of obscure habits. 



We have five species, not difficult to discriminate. 



A. Wings all light yellow-brown ; a slender brown line 



crosses them all. H. derivalis. 



A 2 . Wings all nearly white, a black dot in the discal cell, 



dotted lines behind. H. cribralis. 



A s . Fore wings with three transverse lines, the second 



slender and curved. 



B. Fore wings coarse, grey-drab ; hind wings clouded, 



white. S. barbalis. 



B 1 . Fore wings light brown, hind wings smoky-brown. 



