72 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



terrupted by the white nervures ; on the costa are some dusky spots towards 

 the base, and three or four whitish ones near the apex: posterior wings 

 whitish, with a central mark, and the hinder margin fuscescent, and on the 

 margin itself a row of blackish lunules ; cilia slightly ochraceous. 

 Caterpillar green, spotted with black, with a palish lateral line ; it feeds on the 

 pith of the Typha latifolia : — the imago is produced about the middle of 

 August. 



Not very uncommon, where tlie bulrush abounds : in Battersea- 

 fields and near Edmonton, and in several other parts of the metro- 

 politan district, specimens have been captured. " AUesley." — Rev. 

 W. T. Bree. " Epping."— Ifr. H. Douhleday. 



Sp. 2. pilicornis. Plate 29. f. 1. — Alis anticis cinereo-rufescentihus, vix atomosis 

 strigd posticd curvatd ex punctis obsoletis fuscis ; posticis albis. (Exp. alar. 

 1 unc. 11 lin.) 



Noc, pilicornis. Haworth.— Not. piUcornis. Steph. Catal. part \i. p. 100. No. 

 6330. 



Head and thorax pale, immaculate, hoary-ash ; anterior wings of a pale reddish- 

 ash, very sparingly irrorated with black, the margins of the nervures of a darker 

 hue, and the intermediate areolets whitish in the centre, giving the wing a 

 faintly striated appearance; towards the hinder margin is a faint series of 

 larger fuscous dots, six or seven in number ; cilia whitish-ash : posterior wings 

 white, with a few scattered black atoms, and a darker central cloud : abdomen 

 hoary-ash, with a rufescent tinge, and a little irrorated with black. 



In Mr. Hatchett's collection is a single example of this fine 

 insect, which may possibly be merely the other sex of the following-; 

 and I possess a specimen which was taken in September, 1826, I 

 believe, near Croydon> 



f Sp. 3. crassicornis. Alis (anticis) cinereo-rufescentibus, strigd obsoletd punc- 

 torumfuscorum ; posticis fuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 1 Un.) 



Noc. crassicornis. Haworth.— Not. crassicornis. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 100. 

 No. 6331. 



Size of the foregoing, of a dull somewhat reddish-ash : anterior wings veined, 

 as it were, with subfulvous, white and cinerascent, with numerous minute 

 fuscous atoms, and about six larger ones towards the posterior margin, placed 

 in an arcuated line; abdomen stout, large, with the apical tuft large and 

 • luteseent ; posterior wings fuscous, with the cilia lutescent : antennae stout, 

 thick, and hairy. 



The only specimens I have seen of this species (which chiefly 

 differs from the foregoing by having the anterior wings more thickly 

 irrorated with fuscous, and the posterior ones entirely of that colour) 

 have been captured in Norfolk. In my Catalogue, I have in- 



