156 Mr. H. T. Stainton on the Species of the 



The larva feeds, according to Zincken (see Treitschke), on 

 Centaurea scahiosa and Sonchus Carolina ; according to Lienig, 

 on Centaurea jacea. 



Sp. 9. Propinqnella, Tr., F. v. R., Z., Ev. 

 Gilvosa, var. /3. Haw. 

 Till this year scarce in this country ; it has now been taken in 

 some plenty by Messrs. Bedell, Douglas, and Weir, the greater 

 part of the specimens being beat out of thatch in August and 

 September, 



There is a variety of this species in which the fuscous blotch is 

 obliterated. 



Sp. 10. Subpropinquella, nov. sp. (PI. XVII. fig. 3.) 



A\a^ anteriores elongatse, apice obtuso, ochraceae, punctis du- 

 obus nigris oblique positis ante et macula fused, rare distincta, 

 pone medium. 



Allied to propinqnella, but the anterior wings are much longer, 

 nearly as long as in arenella, but considerably narrower ; the apex 

 is slightly rounded ; the colour of the anterior wings is brownish 

 ochre mottled, as in the darker parts of propinqnella ; there is 

 very slight (indeed, hardly perceptible) appearance of a shoulder 

 mark ; before the middle are the ordinary two black spots, and 

 above the upper one is generally a third smaller one ; beyond 

 these is a large fuscous blotch (rarely as prominent as in propin- 

 qnella) ; and obliquely to this, a similarly coloured smaller blotch 

 or spot. 



Expansion of the wings, 8 — 9 lines. 



Head ochreous. Face very pale ochreous. Palpi pale ochreous; 

 the second joint beneath with ochreous bristles ; the terminal joint 

 with two brown rings, one near the base, the other towards the 

 apex. Antennse fuscous. Thorax ochraceous. Abdomen griseous. 

 Legs pale ochreous. Tarsi, anterior pale ochreous, spotted with 

 fuscous ; posterior darker, unspotted. Anterior wings described 

 above ; cilia pale ochreous ; posterior wings pale griseous, with 

 paler cilia.', in which is a darker line near the margin of the wing. 



This species has been taken by Mr. Bond (to whom I am in- 

 debted for it), who beat it out of thatch in Cambridgeshire this 

 autumn. 



Duponchel's figure o( Heracliella (pi. 290, f. 12) accords better 

 with this species than with a continental specimen of laterella, 

 which I have before me ; but his description is too vague to throw 

 any light upon the figure. 



