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



Sp. 44. Badiella, Hbn. 92, Tr., Z., Ev. 

 Apicella, St. 

 Ainella, Hiib. 94 ? 

 Pastinacella, Dup. pi, 291, f. 5 (not 4). 



Var. /3. Palporum articulo secundo infra ochraceo, nee fiisco. 



Not uncommon among the juniper bushes near Sandersted in 

 August. 



Of var. /3 I have a specimen ; and Mr. Bedell has another, 

 taken at the same time and place with the ordinary variety. 



Sp. 45. Pastinacella, Dup. XI. 153, pi. 291, f. 4 (not 5). 



Variable in shade of colour, generally grey ; sometimes almost 

 as dark as the preceding ; but the anterior wings are narrower. 

 In the middle of the wing are two ocellated markings, much more 

 distinct than in nervosa. 



Duponchel's figure has a reddish tinge, which I have not ob- 

 served in any of the specimens I have seen. I have no doubt 

 that this was the species sent by Fischer to Duponchel, his ob- 

 servation, quoted by the latter, being so very applicable : — " This 

 was taken at first for a pale variety of badiella of Hiibner ; but 

 M. Zeller has reared several hundred specimens from the larva 

 which feeds on Pastinaca saliva, and has not obtained a single one 

 as dark as that figured by Hiibner, and which we take sparingly 

 here and there." 



Thougli Duponchel was thus aware that this insect was very 

 like badiella, with which insect he was not acquainted, yet he did 

 not hesitate to figure as the other sex of pastinacella, a specimen 

 which he had obtained from the Department du Nord, which 

 differs considerably from his other figure, and which I have no 

 hesitation in pronouncing a veritable badiella. 



f Sp. 46. Venejicella, Z. (Isis, 1847, S. 842.) 

 " Major, alis anterioribus elongatis, rotundatis, brunneo-griseis, 

 linea disci fusca longitudinali, partira pallido-squamata, lineolis 

 ante apicem fuscis ; abdoniine ciliato, palporum articuli ter- 

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

 Taken by Zeller near Syracuse ; the larvae plentiful in April 

 and May on Thapsia garganica. His specimens emerged from 

 the pupa from the 20th of May to the 5th of June. He found 

 only one specimen of the perfect insect at large. 



