4 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



with a pale griseous line at the base : posterior wings pale fuscous, with the 

 base ashy-yellow, an undulated pale striga behind the middle, and another on 

 the hinder margin ; cilia as above : abdomen fuscous, with the dorsal fascicles 

 dusky or black. 



Var. iS. With the anterior stigma expanded over the disc as a large brown spot. 



Caterpillar grass-green, with the margins of the segments and the sides paler; 

 the head brown; the true legs reddish : — it feeds upon various plants, such as 

 the common bramble, the dock, lettuce, &c., and occurs in the autumn : — 

 the imago appears in the following spring, towards the middle of June, and 

 frequents woody and weedy banks. 



Not very common : I Lave met with three or four specimens at 

 Coombe-wood, and about as many at Daren th. The insect has 

 been taken in Devonshire, and in the New Forest. " Epping." — 

 Mr. H. Douhleday. 



Genus CXI. — Hama mihi. 



Palpi short, subclavate, the basal joint clothed with elongate scales, the terminal 

 exposed and conic, about as long as the first, subovate, compressed acute; the 

 first short, rather bent, the second stout at the base, considerably attenuated 

 at the apex: maxiUce scarcely as long as the antennse. AntenncE moderate, 

 rather stout, ciliated in the males, and sometimes subserrate, pubescent 

 beneath, with a few bristles, in the females : head small, densely pubescent in 

 the forehead : eyes large, globose, naked : thorax stout, wooUy, subquadrate, 

 scarcely crested : iving-s deflexed during repose, not folded ; anterior rather 

 long, emarginate on the posterior edge : cilia nearly entire : body moderate, 

 carinated, and sometimes with some short fascicles of scales on the back; the 

 sides and apex tufted in the males, scarcely so in the females. 



Caterpillar naked : pupa subterranean. 



From Euplexia, Hama is at once known by its denticulated 

 wings and the nearly smooth thorax, exclusively of the difference 

 in the proportions of the palpi, and the dissimilarity in the antennse : 

 the wings are not folded during repose, and the cilia are scarcely 

 emarginate. From Apamea, its short palpi, and stout antennse, 

 with its obscurely crested, stout, woolly thorax, and pale wings, 

 with nearly concolorous stigmata, distinguish it. 



Sp. 1. Aliena. Alis anticis fusco cinereoque nebulosis stigmatihus strigisque 

 trihus pallidiorihus, externa hidentatfi. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 — 7 lin.) 



No. Ahena. Hiibner. — Mamestra Aliena. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 93. No. 6223. 



Head and thorax dark cinereous, the latter intermixed with white and black 

 atoms : anterior wings clouded with fuscous and cinereous ; in general with 

 an indistinct darker central fascia, occupying the space between the second 

 and third ordinary strig£E, and in this the stigmata are placed, the anterior 



