106 Mr. J. W. Douglas on the 



Sp. 88. Paupella. 



G. paupella, Z. (Isis, 1847, p. 858). 



" Alis anterioribus albidis, lineis longitudinalibus fusco-margi- 

 natis, striga marginis postici latiore utrinque attenuata. 

 Mas." 



" Most closely allied to G. inop*ella, of which it almost appears 

 to be merely an enlarged, sharper and yellower form of the South ; 

 however, its palpi are proportionably longer and the tongue is 

 shorter. Head and thorax white ; antennas whitish, towards the 

 apex more distinctly dark grey annulated ; tongue (accidentally 

 unrolled) only as long as the labial palpi ; labial palpi recurved, 

 three times as long as the head, thin, somewhat compressed, 

 whitish, the last joint a little thinner than the second, shorter, 

 pointed. Legs white, the first two pairs on the anterior side brown, 

 the ends of the joints white ; all the tibiae covered with long 

 hairs. The pale grey abdomen has a long white anal tuft. An- 

 terior wings white ; from the base a posteriorly pointed yellowish 

 streak goes close to the costa, ceasing before the middle (in 

 inopella the white costa is broader) ; under the middle of the wing 

 is another longer, attenuated streak reaching further than this, 

 three shorter ones on the disk, and a sixth on the hinder margin, 

 broad, attenuated at both ends, but not touching the opposite 

 margins ; behind it the cilia are white and round, their apices are 

 marked with two rows of brown scales running nearly parallel to 

 the hinder margin, between them the ground colour is yellowish ; 

 the costa has at the base of the cilia five remote, brown spots; all 

 the streaks are encompassed with scattered brown scales on their 

 margins. Posterior wings very narrow, somewhat shining, pale 

 grey, with rather long apex, before which the hinder margin is 

 deeply and bluntly emarginated ; cilia very long, yellowish-grey. 

 Under side shining, pale grey, on the anterior wings darker ; all 

 the wings are paler on the disk. 



" One male I took near Syracuse in a flowery path through 

 the moist meadow between the Anapo and the columns of Ju- 

 piter's Temple, on the 19th of May." — Z. loc. cit. 



I have one specimen which I took flying at Folkestone in 

 July, 1850, in a somewhat wasted condition, having only traces 

 of the streaks, but which, nevertheless, Herr Zeller pronounces 

 without doubt to be paupella, adding the remark, " thus England 

 has another species in common with Sicily." 



