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Sp. 1. oleagina. Alis anticis viridibus fusco undatis, stigind anticCt fusci albo- 

 cinctd, posticd magnd alba, maculis duabusfuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 8 — 10 lin.) 



Bo. oleagina. Wien. V. — Ph. oleagina. Sowerby. B. M. i. pi. 37. — Va. oleagina. 

 Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 88. No. 6256. 



Head and thorax fuscous^ sprinkled with green : anterior wings green, with un- 

 dulated fuscous strigsEj and some white spots on the costa, towards the apex ; 

 anterior stigma rounds fuscous, with a white margin, posterior large suhovate, 

 white, with a fuscous spot at each extremity; cilia fuscous, with green shades, 

 and interrupted with luteous-ash : posterior wings whitish, with an mterrupted 

 transverse striga a Uttle hehind the middle^ and a marginal fimbria, fuscous ; 

 the latter with an undulated whitish streak close to the hinder margin : cilia 

 fuscous. 



Caterpillar cinereous, spotted with black, with rufous and black dentate striga 

 behind ; collar red: — it feeds on the black thorn. 



Very rare : specimens have been found in Richmond-park, and 

 one was taken in the pupa state by Mr. Plastead some twenty or 

 thirty years ago in Battersea-fields : — others have occurred near 

 Bristol, and Mr. Donovan, 1 believe, captured one in South Wales: 

 — it has also been taken in Scotland : my specimens were from the 

 former locality, and I have been fortunate enough to have hud 

 nearly a dozen examples at various periods. 



Genus CXX. — Miselia, Oclisenheimer. 



Palpi short, porrected obliquely, the two basal joints densely clothed with scales, 

 the terminal exposed and truncate ; basal joint above half the length of the 

 second and robust, slightly curved ; the second elongate, more slender than 

 the first, sublinear, bent, obliquely truncate at the apex ; third short, subovate- 

 truncate : maxillas not very long. Antenna; rather long, pubescent beneath, 

 robust, more or less subserrate, and slightly pectinated in the males, simple in 

 the females: head with a frontal crest: e^ci- small, slightly pubescent: thorax 

 quadrate, large, crested : wings a little deflexed when at rest ; anterior with.the 

 hinder margin crenate ; posterior generally entire : abdomen elongate, robust, 

 carinated, sometimes very acute at the apex in the females, tufted at the apex 

 in the males. Caterpillar naked, the penultimate joint gibbous or tubercu- 

 lated : pupa folliculated. 



Miselia is rather an artificial genus ; for it is evident that the 

 three last species ill associate with the two first : however I have 

 not attempted to detach them, from want of time to investigate 

 their characters sufficiently ; the species have considerable resem- 

 blance to those of the following genus ; and indeed it is not easy 

 to find conspicuous distinguishing characters in the imago; but 

 there is considerable diversity in the larvae, those of the present 



