58 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTEBA. 



abdomen, which in the genus just mentioned is elongate and very- 

 acute ; the scanty clothing to the palpi and the truncation of their 

 second articulation are also peculiar characters. 



Sp. 1. Viminalis. Alts anticis cinereo-canescentibus fulvo undatis, stigmatibus 

 ordinariis pallidis, lineoldque basi atrci. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 3 lin.) 



No. Viminalis. Fabricius. — Bo. Viminalis. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 9Q. 

 iVb. 6310. 



Head and thorax gray, the latter with a transverse dusky striga in front : an- 

 terior wings shining hoary-ash, with fuscous clouds and tinted with purpHsh 

 or fulvous ; with a deep black line at the base, the space between which and 

 the anterior margin is pale immaculate hoary-ash; the ordinary strigae are 

 rather indistinct, pale with fulvescent margins ; the stigmata are pale, slightly 

 clouded in the centre with cinereous, and bordered with an interrupted black 

 line, and there is a third indistinct one, also edged with black, and united by 

 a black hook to a spot of similar hue between the posterior stigma and the 

 inner margin : on the hinder margin is a row of black dots : cilia cinereous, 

 tinted with rosy: posterior wings hoary, with a faint fuscous line on the 

 margin: cUia hoary, sometimes tinted with rosy: abdomen with its sides and 

 apex in the male more or less rosy. 



This varies considerably in colour, some examples being brilliantly suffused with 

 purple, and others being nearly plain ash. 



Caterpillar pale-green, with five pale or whitish longitudinal stripes; head 

 broAvn or dusky, with black spots : it feeds on various kinds of willow. 



Taken at Coombe and Darenth-woods, and near Hertford and 

 Ripley ; not very abundant. 



Genus CXXXII. — Cymatophora, Treitschke. 



Palpi rather short, ascending, densely clothed with elongate scales at the base, 

 the terminal joint exposed and somewhat acute ; basal joint about the length 

 of the terminal, a little bent and slightly stouter than the second, which is 

 rather slender and curved, with the base a little attenuated ; the apex obtuse, 

 terminal ovate-conic subacute; maxillce moderate. Antenncs rather long, 

 bipectinated nearly to the apex, and pubescent in the males, subserrated in 

 the females : head small, round : eyes large, globose, naked : thorax rather 

 stout; not crested, clothed with woolly hairs beneath: abdomen rather 

 slender, very pubescent, with longer tufts on the sides and at the apex in 

 the males ; less pubescent in the females, somewhat elongated, robust at 

 the base and abruptly conic towards the tip, which is very acute, the ovipo- 

 sitor being generally exserted : wings deflexed diuing repose; anterior entire, 

 obtuse, rather broad ; posterior ample ; legs stout, woolly at the base. Larva 

 naked, smooth ; pupa folliculated. 



