78 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



distinct longitudinal striga passing over the discoidal nervure, and an imper- 

 fect one at the base of the inner margin^ with all the nervures at the tip of the 

 wing also dusky or black; on the hinder margin itself is sometimes an indistinct 

 line of minute dots ; cdia fulvescent or cinereous : posterior wings fuscescent, 

 with the base and costa somewhat cinereous ; cUia fulvescent or ochraceous : 

 abdomen reddish or whitish-ash : antennae fulvescent. 

 This and the four following species differ from the rest of the genus in having 

 the eyes naked^ and the terminal joint of the palpi more slender and acute, 

 the thorax more wooUy, and in being of a smaller size : they also occur later in 

 the season, and affect marshy districts. 



The chief locality of this species is on the borders of Whittlesea- 

 mere, where the insect has been taken in tolerable plenty, at the 

 end of July ; specimens have also been captured in Battersea- 

 fields. 



Sp. 12. pygmina. Alis anticis rufescentibus margine antico ciliisque saturatioribus, 

 posticisfuscescentibus; oculis nudis. (Exp. alar. 10 Un. — 1 unc.) 



Leu. Phragmatidis. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 101. No. 6344-.— No. pygmina. 

 Haworth ? 



Head and thorax pale rufescent, immacvdate ; anterior wings also rufescent, with 

 a hoary cast, very faintly clouded on the costa with darker atoms, and the 

 same on the disc and nervures at the apex of the wing; cilia rather brighter 

 than the rest of the wing, immaculate : posterior wings pale fuscescent, with 

 the costa paler; cilia ochreous or rosy: abdomen whitish, with the apical 

 tuft ochraceous. 



Smaller than the preceding, with the anterior wings considerably narrower, and 

 of a much paler hue : it occurs rather later in the season ; appearing about 

 August, and continuing till the middle of September. 



Not common ; found in Battersea-fields and near Hertford ; also 

 in the marshes near Hackney, and in the neighbourhood of Coombe- 

 wood. 



Sp. 13. pallida. Alis anticis oehraceo-albidis, immacvlatis, venis ad apicem 

 atomis nigris minutissimis sparsis, posticis alhidis ; oculis nudis. (Exp. alar. 

 9 lin.) 



Le. paUida mihi. Steph. Catal. part ii.p. 101. No. 6345. 



Head and thorax pale hoary- white ; anterior wings of an ochraceous- white, with 

 the costa and central nervure obscurely fuscescent, and the nervures towards 

 the apex very sparingly sprinkled with extremely minute fuscescent atoms, 

 and a more compact patch of the same in the hinder margin near the apex 

 of the costa ; cUia white : posterior wings whitish, with a slight ashy tinge 

 towards the hinder margin; cilia white: abdomen and apical tuft hoary- 

 white. 



