44 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Antithesia staixtoxiana, Barrett (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. ix., p. 127). 



This handsome addition to our lists, which mv old friend 

 Charles G. Barrett has named in honour of Mr. Stainton, 

 was captured in 1869, on mountains in Perthshire by Mr. 

 Eedle, who secured about twenty examples of the species 

 amongst Arctostaphilos uva ursi. These were distributed 

 into various collections as grevillana. 



Mr. Barrett's excellent description, which will be found 

 in extenso in the November number of the " Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine," will give a vivid idea of the beauty of 

 staintoniana. It runs as follows : — 



Alar. exp. 8 lines. Head, palpi, and antennee greyish- 

 brown ; thorax blackish-brown, dusted with pale ochreous. 

 Fore-wing: costa arched, with sharply angulated square 

 apex, and truncate hind margin. Ground colour pale 

 cream, with the basal two-thirds dark bluish-brown, the 

 portion between the basal patch and central fascia being 

 paler, and showing the ground colour near the costa. 

 Basal patch with its outer margin angulated near the costa, 

 thence perpendicular to the dorsal margin. Outer margin 

 of central fascia indented, with the usual pale hook in the 

 middle. In the pale apical third is a faint brown line, fol- 

 lowed by a narrow brown cloud before the apex. Cilia 

 cream-coloured, spotted with brown, and with a dark line at 

 the base. 



Mr. Barrett places staintoniana next to sauciana, from 

 which it may be distinguished by its longer wings, and by 

 the pale patches in the dark portion of the wing which 

 bounds the basal patch. From grevillana Mr. Barrett 

 separates it by its rounded costa, square apex, and the 

 cream or pinkish colour of the pale portions. 



