120 Mr. H. T. Stain ton on Gracilaria, 



small yellow streak, along the fold of the wing ; the apical portion 

 of the wing is varied with several small yellowish spots along the 

 costa and inner margin ; apical cilia are reddish brown, the inner 

 marginal cilia grey. 



Posterior wings grey, shining, with yellowish grey cilia. 



Not yet detected in this country, and very rare on the Con- 

 tinent ; it has only occurred near Glogau ; and of its food and 

 habits nothing is known. 



Sp. 3. Stigmatella, Fabricius. (PI. XIV. fig. 14.) 



Alis anticis rufis, purpureo-nitidulis, triangulo costali exalbido, 



plicam tangente, apice suo postice producto. 

 Stigmatella, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3, 2, 304 ; Schr. F. B. 2, 1, 106 ; 



Steph. Illust. iv. 366 ; Zel. Linn. Ent. ii. 319. 

 Upupcepennella, Hub. Tin. 203 ; Tr. ix. 2, S. 195 ; x. 3, S. 217 



& 279 ; Dup. xi. 602, pi. 311, f. 13. 

 Purpurea, Haw. L. B. 528 ; St. 111. iv. 366. 

 Trigona, Haw. L. B. 529. 

 Var. b, alis anticis dilute ochraceis, circa triangulum fusces- 



centibus. 

 Ochracea, Haw. L. B. 528 ; St. 111. iv. 366. 



Readily distinguished from all its congeners by the posteriorly 

 projecting apex of the costal triangle. 



Expansion of the wings 6 — 6\ lines. 



Head and face greyish red ; palpi red brown, the inner side of 

 the second joint and apex of the terminal joint yellowish ; antennae 

 pale yellowish, with brown annulations ; thorax greyish red ; ab- 

 domen grey, beneath whitish ; the four anterior legs have the 

 femora and tibiae reddish brown, tarsi whitish, the ends of the 

 joints brown ; the posterior legs have the base of the femora 

 yellowish white, the apical half dark brown, tibiae and tarsi dirty 

 yellowish white, the ends of the joints darker. 



Anterior wings reddish brown, darkest along the costa, paler 

 along the inner margin and towards the hinder margin. The 

 costal triangle is whitish, it is situated about the middle of the 

 costa, and has its shortest side towards the base of the wing; the 

 side opposite is longer, and slightly concave ; the apex of the 

 triangle, which reaches the fold of the wing (rarely crosses it), is 

 produced obliquely towards the hinder margin of the wing. The 

 costal triangle is more or less suffused with rufous in the middle, 

 and on the costa itself are several fine red brown spots ; apical 

 cilia rufous, inner marginal cilia grey. 



