194 Mr. H. T. Stainton on Gracilaria, &c. 



Expansion of the wings 4-4| lines. 



Head and face white ; palpi white ; antennae brown ; thorax 

 white, with the sides brown ; abdomen greyish. The four ante- 

 rior legs have the femora brown, tibiae and tarsi brown, spotted 

 with white ; the posterior legs have the femora and tibiae whitish, 

 the tarsi white, with the bases of the joints brown. 



Anterior wings brown, inclining to black, along the inner mar- 

 gin extends a narrow streak of white uninterruptedly to the anal 

 angle ; on the costa are five white streaks : the first begins a little 

 before the middle, is placed very obliquely, and reaches, with 

 its attenuated and rather curved apex, to the commencement of 

 the last third of the wing ; the second streak, which immediately 

 follows the first, is much shorter, and does not reach as far as the 

 first ; the third streak, following at a little distance from the second, 

 is placed less obliquely, points towards the anal angle, and reaches 

 half across the wing; the fourth streak is slightly curved, its apex 

 almost touching the apex of the preceding, it reaches half across 

 the wing, but there appears an indistinct continuation of it to the 

 anal angle ; the fifth streak, which is small, is on the costa, im- 

 mediately before the apex. Below the apex of the first costal 

 streak lies a small white streak on the disk. At the apex of the 

 wing is a bTack ocellus, from the end of which springs the black 

 hook. Cilia at first brownish, then white, with black tips. 



Posterior wings narrow, gradually pointed, grey, with paler cilia. 



" Occurs near Vienna, and at Pisa, in the beginning of May, 

 singly, among ash trees in the marshes."* 



Like the preceding, this still remains to be discovered in this 

 country. 



* Ent. Ztg. 1850, S. 161. 



