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Hypenodes, Gn., albistrigatis, Haw. (albistrigatus, St.). 



The type of this species is thus described by Haworth : " C. alis 

 subfuscis, fascia lata saturatiore nigro, albo obsolete terminata." 

 " Palpi prsecedentium. Alse anticse puncto obsoleto ordinario post 

 medium fasciae anticarum " (' Lepidoptera Britannica,' p. 368). 

 Guenee writes : "The superior wings of a shiny, wainscot-brown, 

 with two fine, black, dentate, parallel lines, not reaching the costa ; 

 the second edged with whitish-yellow behind, with the ground colour 

 paler beyond it. Very near to this line, in the cellule, is a small 

 black x. A series of large dots before the fringe, which is alternately 

 marked with yellowish. The inferior wings of a dark ashy-grey, 

 unicolorous, with the fringe faintly marked transversely. The female 

 similar and only slightly darker " (' Histoire naturelle ' etc. (Deltoi'des), 

 vol. viii., p. 42). 



Stephens writes of this species : "Albistrigatus, Haw. ; Cl. albistri-* 

 gatus, Stphs. 'Catalogue', ii., 159, No. 6769. Wings pale fuscous; 

 the anterior with a broad central darker band, terminated near the 

 base by a slender zigzag black streak and beyond the middle by a 

 broader slightly flexuous one ; adjoining to which on the inner margin 

 is a whitish space, gradually changing into a dark fuscous. On the 

 hinder margin itself is a row of black dots ; a spot of the same colour 

 is in the middle of the disc ; posterior wings immaculate. A scarce 

 insect found occasionally within the Metropolitan district, in the 

 vicinity of Darenth village, and also in Norfolk and Devonshire " 

 (' Illustrations of British Entomology,' p. 20). 



Tholmiges, Ld. (SchrancTcia, H.-S.), turfosalis, Wk., H.-S. 



This species was described and figured almost simultaneously by 

 Doubleday, Wocke and Herrich-Schaffer. The description of the 

 latter is as follows : " Smaller than Cledeobia acuminalis. The palpi 

 turned up, sickle-shaped and bare. The middle nervure, towards the 

 base and apex, finer. The colour of the fore wings somewhat reddish 

 and uniform. The first transverse line very indistinct, the next rises 

 exactly at the centre of the inner margin, runs obliquely under the 

 central spot where it turns towards the fringes, and then turns again, 

 continuing as a straight line towards the costa. The curved line runs 

 from the apex to the inner margin (anal angle) turning gradually from 

 the outer margin but meeting it again at the anal angle. The hind 

 wings more reddish-grey than in acuminalis, the base paler " (' Syste- 

 matische Bearbeitung ' etc., vol. ii., p. 448). 



This species was first recorded as British by Mr. Doubleday, and 

 described by him as Hypenodes humidalis in the ' Zoologist ' for 1850, 

 App. cv., where he reports it to have been " captured in the bogs of 

 Ireland, in 1848, by Mr. Weaver, and discovered in abundance in 

 1850, by Messrs. N. Cooke and Greening of Warrington." I have 

 specimens captured in the latter locality by Mr. Collins last summer 

 (1891). Since then it has been taken plentifully by many collectors 

 in various parts of the country. About the same time as the species 

 was described by Doubleday, Wocke described it as turfosalis. Con- 

 cerning this, Guenee writes: "Very similar in appearance to the 

 preceding (Hypenodes), this genus cannot be united with the latter owing 



