Ornix Meleagripennella audits Allies. 93 



Head whitish grey, with some ochreous, and dark grey hairs on 

 the crown of the head ; face grey ; antennae whitish, annulated 

 with dark grey ; palpi white, the terminal joint with a broad dark 

 grey or black ring, leaving only its base and apex while ; thorax 

 whitish-grey, with some dark grey scales; the four anterior legs 

 dark grey, spotted with whitish, tarsi white, with the ends of the 

 joints dark grey ; hind legs dirty brownish ochre, tarsi rather 

 darker, with the bases of the joints paler. 



Anterior wings five times as long as broad, dark grey inter- 

 mixed with white, especially along the inner margin ; along the 

 costa are numerous short white streaks, those towards the apex 

 being most distinctly marked, and the apical one is continued 

 round the ocellated apical black spot, to the hinder margin ; in 

 the fold of the wing are two distinct oblong black spots, one 

 before, the other beyond the middle, and between this latter and 

 the apex of the wing is a smaller black spot, bounded externally 

 by a whitish mark, which appears to form a continuation of the 

 costal streak situated the fifth from the apex ; cilia whitish, with 

 a complete curved black line from the apex to the inner margin, 

 followed by a second almost as complete, but slightly interrupted 

 at the extreme apex. 



Posterior wings six times as long as broad, pale grey, with paler 

 cilia. 



By far the commonest species of the group in the south of 

 England; at Lewisham it swarms in every hedge in May, and 

 again in July. I have sent specimens of it to Herr Zeller, who 

 pronounces it quite new to him. 



Sp. 7. Torquillella, Zeller. 



Alis anticis cinereis, glaucescentibus, dorso albido farinato, 

 costa albido-strigulata, ciliis externe fusco-cinctis ; palpis 

 albis, immaculatis ; epistomio cinereo. 



Torquillella, Zeller, Entomologische Zeitung, 1850, p. 161. 



Distinguished from all the preceding species by the white 

 palpi being entirely unspotted, and from Scoticella by the darker 

 face, darker base of the anterior wings, and less sharply defined 

 markings on the anterior wings. 



Head ochreous grey, with some darker hairs intermixed ; face 

 grey ; antennae dark grey, with paler annulations ; palpi entirely 

 white ; thorax whitish grey, with some darker scales ; the four 



