22 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Sp. 1. Atriplicis. Alis anticis j'usco viridique nebulosis, liturd media albicdfitt 



bifida. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 8 — 10 lin.) 

 Ph. No. Atriplicis. Li7ins. — Wilkes, pi. 2. f. 3. Tr. Atriplicis. Steph. Catal. 



•part ii. p. 87. No. 6255. 



Head greenish-ash : thorax the same, with a greenish anterior and lateral streak ; 

 anterior wings cinereous with a green tinge, with paler moniliform strigae 

 more or less bordered with black, two before and one behind the middle, the 

 latter arcuated; besides these is a considerably waved whitish one near the 

 hinder margin, which last has a row of black lunular spots; the ordinary 

 stigmata are luteous or greenish, with paler margins, and between these and 

 the inner margin of the wing is an oblique whitish or ochraceous somewhat 

 linear patch, emarginate on its posterior margin : cilia cinereous, interrupted 

 with greenish : posterior wings fuscous, with a darker margin. 



Caterpillar reddish, spotted with white, with a fuscous dorsal line: — it feeds on 

 various kinds of Dock (Rumex), on Atriplex, Polygonum, Hydropiper, &c. : — 

 the imago appears towards the end of June and again in September. 



This conspicuous insect still continues rare ; specimens have been 

 captured near Wisbeach, in Cambridgeshire, and near Cheltenham : 

 I possess three fine examples from the latter place, given to me by 

 Dr. Leach. In Wilkes's time the insect was taken occasionally- 

 near London, but I have never seen an example which was captured 

 within the metropolitan district. 



Genus CXIX. — Valeria, Germar. 



Palpi short, very hairy, concealed in the pubescence of the front, the terminal 

 joint alone conspicuous, elongate, Unear, truncate ; basal joint large, robust, 

 reniform ; second rather shorter and more slender, rather attenuated towards 

 the apex, the terminal nearly as long and robust as the second, elongate-ovate, 

 obtuse: maxillw elongate. Antennae stout, bipectinated in both sexes, the 

 pectinations larger, and subclavate in the male : head densely squamous in 

 front: eyes small, globose, naked: ^/loraa; robust, subquadrate, sUghtly crested : 

 abdomen robust, sUghtly tufted at the apex in the males, obtuse in the females : 

 wings deflexed ? during repose ; anterior crenulated on the hinder margin, 

 posterior faintly denticulate. 



Caterpillar naked, the posterior segment quadridentate : pupa subtferraneaii. 



Both sexes in this genus have the antennae bipectinated, a struc- 

 ture that does not obtain in any other of the indigenous Noctuidse ; 

 the females may therefore be readily known by that character alone, 

 and the males by the union of their deeply bipectinated antennae, 

 the pectinations being clavate, with their crenated anterior wings, 

 stout sKghtly crested thorax, inconspicuous very hairy palpi, with 

 the terminal joint exposed, elongate-truncate. 



