18 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTEBA. 



Sp. 4. lancea. Alis anticis cwpreo-fuscis, strigis quatuor ohsoletissitnis patli- 



dioribus, posticis Jlavescente-cinereis fimbria fuscii. (Exp. alar. 11 — 12 lin.) 

 No. kncea. JEsper?—Ce. lancea. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 87. No. 6250. 



Considerably smaller than either of the foregoing; head, thorax, and abdomen 

 ■ of a pale-reddish fuscous ; anterior wings the same, nearly of an uniform 

 tint, with four very obsolete paler strigfe, the first at the base, the second 

 before, and the third behind the middle; the last near the posterior margin, 

 very little curved, but dentate : the anterior stigma is very minute, pale dirty 

 ochreous, the posterior also small, reniform, immaculate; the apex of the 

 central nervure, the two nervures which arise therefrom, and the one to- 

 wards the inner edge of the wing, rather pale : hinder margin of the wing 

 immaculate : posterior wings yellowish-ash, with a fuscous fimbria. 



The nearly uniformly coloured anterior wings, with the scarcely waved pos- 

 terior striga, and pale hinder vdngs, exclusively of its small size, are the 

 leading characters of this insect. 



Taken in Norfolk many years since on the borders of Ramsey- 

 mere: it has, I believe, been also found near Whittlesea-mere. 

 " Marton Lodge." — L, Rudd, Esq. 



Genus CXV. — Scotophila* mihi. 



Palpi rather distant, porrected obhquely, slender at the base, subclavate, the 

 two basal joints clothed with rather elongate scales, the apical minute, exposed, 

 somewhat acute; the basal joint about two-thirds the length of the second, 

 stout, reniform, the second more slender, rather tumid at the base, the apex 

 attenuated and truncate ; terminal subovate, obtuse : maxilla elongate. An- 

 tennae long, pubescent beneath, stout, subserrate, and slightly pectinated in 

 the males ; slender and simple in the females : head small : eyes globose, 

 naked : thorax subquadrate, not crested : abdomen moderate, rather depressed, 

 acute at the tip in the females, with a tuft in the males : wings entire, de- 

 flexed ; the anterior narrow, posterior rather large. 



Caterpillar naked : pupa subterranean. 



Scotophila has hitherto, by all modern writers, been associated 

 with Achatia, but its characters are evidently too dissimilar to allow 

 of such an union, the palpi being visibly exposed in this genus, and 

 scarcely prominent in Achatia; the proportions of the latter are 

 singularly different, especially the second joint, which is not only 

 totally dissimilar to the same part in Scotophila, but differs con- 

 siderably from the other Noctuidse, as more particularly noticed 

 hereafter. The thorax, antennse, and texture of the wings are also 

 very unlike those of Achatia. 



* 'S.Koros, tenebrje; (p/A,«?, amicus. 



