90 LEPIDOPTERA. 



OrnateUa, but may be readily recognized by the dark, 

 chestnut-brown anterior wings, which are only paler along 

 the costa and on the inner margin, and by the second trans- 

 verse line, which ceases far below the costa and is broadly 

 interrupted near the inner margin. 



Trachonitis (?) Pryerella, H. Yaughan (Fig. 3). 



This fine JPhT/cis, of which three specimens only are at 

 present known to science, all of them females, and all, I be- 

 lieve, captured in the metropolis, has recently been described 

 by Mr. Howard Vaughan in the " Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine," vol. vii. p. 130. Pryerella does not appear to 

 be at all nearly related to any British species. It should 

 come nearest to the genus Phycis in our cabinets, but is of 

 altogether a different build, having a comparatively broad 

 thorax and robust abdomen. Mr. Vaughan, considering 

 that it most resembles Trachonitis in its generic characters, 

 has provisionally placed it in that genus. As our artist will 

 give a figure of the species, it is not necessary here to make 

 a repetition of the already published description. 



In February, 1864, a specimen of this insect was submitted 

 to Mr. Stainton for identification by its captor (Mr. Eedle), 

 who took it in his garden near Hackney the previous Sep- 

 tember. Mr. Stainton was unable to recognize the insect, 

 or to identify it with any described species, and Mr. Eedle 

 most liberally added it to that author's collection. In 

 October, 1864, Mr. Eedle again took this insect; but 

 Mr. Stainton, knowing the difficulties of the ^* Knot-horn" 

 group, did not venture to describe the species, without seeing 

 a more extensive series, and so the matter has remained to 

 the present day. 



