12 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPiDOPTERA. 



in varieties, it becomes difficult to separate them correctly :" — as such 

 is the case with the Mianee, and but little attention has been paid 

 to the rearing of them, it would clearly be hazardous to unite them, 

 till experience clears up the point. 



The species of this genus may be known from the preceding by 

 the small size and the nearly concolorous posterior stigmata on their 

 anterior wings, the smallness of their palpi, slenderness of their 

 body, and by the thorax not being crested anteriorly ; exclusive of 

 their gracile palpi, and their proportions when denuded. 



Sp. 1. literosa. Plate 25. f. 1. — "Alls anticis ■ glaucis strigd postica Jlexuosd 

 rosed, lineolis literw foi^mibus in medio nigris." — Haw. (Exp. alar. 10 — 11 

 lin.) 



No. literosa. — Haworth. — Mi. literosa. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 86. No. 6239. 



Head cinereous ; thorax anteriorly cinereous, with a dusky transverse line, the disc 

 and sides rosy, the crest cinereous : anterior wings glaucous-ash, tinged with 

 rosy, with a bright rosy flexuous posterior striga, followed by a pale one ; the 

 base of the wings of a darker hue than the apex, stigmata pale, the anterior with 

 a black streak on each side, the posterior with a black streak on the anterior 

 edge alone ; between the stigmata and the hinder margin is usually a longi- 

 tudinal abbreviated black line; the posterior stigma is pale glaucous, and 

 behind it arises a considerably arcuated, though obscure paler striga ; on the 

 hinder margin of the wing is an interrupted brownish-red line : ciha fuscous, 

 with a rosy tinge : posterior wings pale fuscous. 



In some examples the black streaks on the anterior wings are obsolete. 



This beautiful species, although rare, I have frequently captured 

 at Daren th- wood, about the middle of July, flying towards dusk 

 over the low hedges of the fields leading to the wood from the lane : 

 it has also been found at Dover and in other places. " Epping." — 

 Mr. H. Douhleday. " Near Wanstead." — Mr. Bentley. 



Sp. 2. strigilis. Alls anticis antice cinereo fuscogue variis, postice albo strigd 



■undatd pallidiore margine fusco nebuloso. (Exp. alar. 10 Un. — 1 unc. 1 lin.) 



Ph. No. strigilis. Linne. — Mi. strigilis. Steph. Catal, part ii. p. 86. A^o. 62i0. 



Head and thorax ashy-brown, the latter with a transverse dark streak anteriorly: 

 anterior wings with an undulated black striga at the base, bounded externally 

 with white; then a whitish one edged with black on its outer margin, followed 

 by the ordinary stigmata, which are cinereous; and behind the posterior one is 

 a third, arcuated, white striga, through which pass some abbreviated black 

 streaks ; this is followed by a broad white fascia, which terminates in a pale 

 undated striga, the space between which and the hinder margin is clouded 

 with griseous and fuscous: the cilia are dusky-brown, with pale streaks: the 

 \)Osterior wings fuscescent : the ciha cinereous. 



This species varies much : in some examples the second and third strigee are 



