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



wings variable in colour, from pale reddish-brown to dark fus- 

 cous, with but slight reddish tint ; base and basal half of the 

 costa generally paler than the rest of the wings ; spots as in 

 applana, two black ones placed obliquely before the middle, the 

 posterior one externally margined with white, and beyond them 

 two white ones margined with black, placed longitudinally ; on 

 the hinder margin is a row of fuscous spots ; cilia rufous-brown. 

 Posterior wings greyish ; cilia pale, variegated with rufous 

 towards the end. 



This species appears widely distributed : it was beat out of 

 thatch, at West Wickham, in August, 1847, by Messrs. Bedell 

 and Douglas ; Mr. H. Doubleday has received it from the Lan- 

 cashire coast; Mr. Allis meets with it in Yorkshire; and I have 

 a specimen from Stirlingshire. 



Sp. 27. Rotundella, Douglas, (Zool. 1270, F. 8.) 

 Peloritanella, Z. (Isis, 1847, S. 837.) 



Taken by Mr. Douglas at Mickleham, and Sanderstead, in 

 September, at sugar. 



Zeller met with this insect abundantly in Sicily, on mountains 

 near Messina, in April and July. He says, " the larva feeds pro- 

 bably on Erica arborea, or Spartium junceiim." 



f Sp. 28. ParUella, (F. v. R.) Tr., Z.,Lie. 

 Humerella, Dup. (PI. 312, f. 7.) 



" Alis anticis testaceo-hepaticis, basi punctoque medio flavidis ; 

 posticis cinereis." Tr. 1. c. 



The lava feeds, according to Lienig, in June, on Athamanta 

 oreoselinum and Selinum caruifoUum. The perfect insect appearing 

 in July. Taken, by Mann, on the trunks of birches. 



This and the four following species are distinguished by the 

 pale shoulder of the dark-coloured anterior wings. 



f Sp. 29. Ferulce, Z. (Isis, 1847, S. 840.) 



*' Major, fronte patagiisque flavidis, alis anterioribus obtusis 

 brunneis, basi abrupte flavida, puncto nigro ante, albo post 

 medium ; palpis flavidis, externe fuscescentibus, articulus ter- 

 minalis basi annuloque fuscis." Z. 1, c. 



Zeller met with the larvae of this species in Sicily, near Mes- 

 sina, on Ferula communis, April 15th, and bred from them five 

 specimens in the middle of May. 



