45 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



ceding genus, but the thorax is stouter, the palpi more robust, with 

 the basal joint very minute: the antennse rather stout, pubescent; 

 the head transverse, the wings ample, without the ordinary strigse 

 on the anterior ; the cilia elongate : and the larva bears considerable 

 resemblance in structure to those of the genus Hypogymna. 



Sp. 2. Orion. Alis anticis perviridibus plaga longitudinali alba, maculisjhs- 

 cidque atris, apice punctorum trigonorum serie unica. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 5 

 Hn.) 



Ph. No. Orion. Esper. — Di. Orion. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 94. No. 6295. 



Head greenj immaculate^ with the sides whitish : thorax also green, with a trans- 

 verse line anteriorly and some large spots on the hack and hehind hlack ; an- 

 terior wings bright apple-green, with a broad longitudinal white dash on the 

 disc ; a black spot at the base, beyond which is an irregular broad black fascia, 

 and about the middle an interrupted and very irregular black striga, to which 

 are united two black spots, the posterior of which is transverse and edged with 

 white, in place of the ordinary stigmata; behind the middle is a black striga, 

 which is considerably varied towards the costa, and has a fuscous shining 

 spot near the apex, and another near the anal angle; on the hinder margin is 

 a row of minute trigonate black spots, bordered anteriorly with white : cUia 

 white, spotted with fuscous ; costa whitish, with a line at the base, and two 

 spots between the strigse, black : posterior wings deep fuscous, with two ab- 

 breviated white strigse at the anal angle : cilia white, spotted with fuscous : 

 abdomen ashy-brown, with a row of black dorsal spots. 



Var. S. Di. runica. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 94. No. 6294. Ph. No. aprilina. 

 Bon. X. pi. 347. /. 1. — With the anterior wings a little less spotted with 

 black. 



Caterpillar fuscous, with large oval ochraceous dorsal spots, and minute white 

 ones between ; each segment with a row of ferruginous tubercles, each bearing 

 a fascicle of hairs : it feeds on the oak : — the imago is found in the beginning 

 of June. 



f Sp. 1. ludifica. " Alis anticis virescentihus abdominequejlavo nigro punctatis" 

 Linne. 



Ph. No. ludifica. Linne. — Turton ( !) — Di. ludifica. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 94. 

 No. 6293. note. 



White above, with a black spot between the antennae : thorax white, spotted with 

 black, with a double reflexed black bow in front : anterior wings whitish, with 

 various black zigzags and irregular black strigae; ciha spotted with black: 

 posterior wings ochraceous, yellowish on the inner margin; cilia white, with 

 black spots : abdomen yellow, with a row of black spots on the back. 



CaterpUlar dusky, striped with blue and yellow, with the neck and posterior 

 segments spotted with white : — it feeds on various trees, on the oak, black 

 thorn, wUlow, &c. 



Introduced by Turton into the indigenous Fauna, but improperly. 



