60, HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



fourths the length of the second, arcuated, the second scarcely more slender 

 than the first, linear, and somewhat hent at the base ; terminal more slender,- 

 elongate, above half the length of the second, slightly attenuated at the apex, 

 which is acute : maxillce moderate. Antennce short, rather slender, pubescent 

 within, each articulation furnished with a bristle on each side, shortest in the 

 females : head small, rounded : eyes large, globose, naked : thorax stout, not 

 crested : abdomen rather slender, with tufts of hair on the sides, and a larger 

 tuft at the apex, especially in the males, of the females gradually attenuated 

 from the base to the apex, which is somewhat acute : wings deflexed during 

 repose ; anterior subtriangular, sUghtly truncate or obscurely emarginate on 

 their hinder margin, with distinct angulated strigae ; posterior rather ample. 

 Larva naked, with a few scattered hairs : pupa subterranean. 



From Cymatophora, tliis germs differs by having the anterior 

 wings somewhat truncate or emarginate, as well as by the slender- 

 ness of its palpi and the simplicity of its antennae ; and from 

 Xanthia — with which it agrees in its truncated anterior wings — 

 the absence of the thoracic crest, and deep angulated strigae on the 

 anterior wings, readily distinguish it : the species are sestival. 



Sp. 1. difEnis. Alis anticis firrugineo-brunneis, maculis tribus aut quatuor 

 margine anteriori albis, punctisque duobus apicis nigris. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 

 2—4 Un.) 



Ph. No. diffinis. Linne.— Co. diffinis. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 97. No. 6312. 

 White-spotted Pinion. Harris, pi. v.f. 8. 



Head and thorax pale rosy-brown ; eyes black : anterior wings variegated with 

 rosy-brown and ferruginous, with dusky shades; the former colour pre- 

 dominating on the costa ; at the base of the latter is a slender abbreviated 

 white striga ; before the middle is a subtriangular, shghtly flexuous white 

 spot, from which arises a pale striga reaching to the inner margin, and bordered 

 exteriorly with fuscous ; behind the middle is another white Kspot, rounded an- 

 teriorly and emarginated posteriorly, from which also arises a pale or whitish 

 streak, which is considerably bent at its origin, and margined anteriorly with 

 fuscous ; at the apex of the costa is a fourth rather faint arcuated white spot or 

 striga, continued to near the anal angle, and united by a pale longitudinal 

 marginal line to the transverse striga last-mentioned : at the apex of the costa 

 are two black dots : ciha rosy-brown : posterior wings deep fuscous, with 

 fulvous ciha. 



Some specimens are of a richer hue than others, and the white costal spots are 

 more or less distinct. 



Caterpillar green, striped with white, with the head and anterior legs black; — it 

 feeds on the elm : — the imago appears towards the middle of August. 



Not very abundant ; taken occasionally on the elms in Copen*- 

 iiagen-fields, and in other places in the vicinity of London : I have 



