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ground colour of the apical portion of the wing) ; cilia greyish, 

 with two complete curved dark lines from the apex to the inner 

 margin. 



Posterior wings six times as long as broad, rather pointed, 

 grey, with paler cilia. 



I had the good fortune to discover this species in Torwood, in 

 June, 1849, in considerable plenty; the insects, when alive, have 

 a greenish appearance (which they entirely lose after death) ; I 

 was thus struck with them at the time, but only suspected it to be 

 a northern variety. In September, 1849, I collected a number of 

 small larvae in this locality, and in June of this year I had the 

 pleasure of breeding a specimen of the insect from one of these 

 larvae found on mountain ash. I have never met with it in any 

 other locality, and the species has not yet been detected on the 

 continent. 



Sp. 9. Ampliatella, Mann. 



Alis anticis albidis, cinereo-irroratis, apicem versus suffusis, 

 costa nigro-strigulata, maculis nigris tribus in disco ; ciliis 

 apicis externe bis fusco-cinctis ; palpis albis immaculatis ; 

 epistomio albo. 



Ampliatella, Mann in litt. 



Known at once from all its congeners by the general whiteness 

 of the anterior wings. 



Head white, with a few grey hairs ; face white ; antennae grey, 

 with paler annulations ; palpi white, unspotted ; thorax white, in- 

 termixed with grey ; the four anterior legs dark grey, spotted 

 with white, the tarsi white, with the ends of the joints blackish ; 

 hind legs dirty greyish white, tarsi the same, with the ends of the 

 joints darker. 



Anterior wings four times as long as broad, white, irrorated 

 with grey ; along the costa are numerous short black streaks, 

 which, by their union, form a dark grey patch at the apex of the 

 wing, where accordingly the ground colour seems reversed, the 

 markings at the apex appearing white on a dark ground, whereas 

 in the remaining portion of the wing the markings appear dark on 

 a white ground ; the apical white costal streak is continued round 

 the ocellated black spot to the hinder margin ; in the fold of the 

 wing are two conspicuous oblong black spots, one before and the 

 other beyond the middle ; the third spot occupies its usual place, 

 but is not as conspicuous as the other two ; cilia whitish, with two 



