NOCTUIDjE. — PHLOGOPHOKA. 83 



Very rare : I have as yet seen but three specimens : one in the 

 collection of Mr. Haworth, captured by the late Rev. J. Burrell, 

 in Norfolk ; a second in that of Mr. Pittard, taken by him near 

 Darenth-wood ; and a third in my own, found, I believe, in the 

 same neighbourhood as the last. 



Genus CXXXIX. — Phlogophora, TreltscTike. 



Pa/^ie rather large, ascending, clavate, compactly clothed with dense short scales; 

 the terminal joint very minute, obtuse, exposed; basal joint reniform, stouter 

 than the second, which is compressed, more than twice as long as the first, 

 and acuminated at the apex ; terminal minute, ovate-conic : maxillw elon- 

 gate. Antennce rather long, slender, simple in both sexes, of the male finely 

 pubescent within, and slightly serrated: head somewhat rounded, densely 

 clothed with scales : ei/es globose, naked: thorax stout, with an acute short 

 crest in the centre anteriorly, and an elongate bifid one posteriorly: icings 

 longitudinally wrinkled during repose; anterior elongate triangular, the pos- 

 terior margin deeply indented, and excavated behind the middle; posterior 

 ovate-triangular, shghtly indented : abdomen rather short and slender, downy 

 at the base, the sides and apex with pilose tufts, and a row of fascicles down 

 the back. 



Larva rather slender, naked, simple : pupa foUiculated, the foUiculus deUcate, 

 and placed on the earth. 



Ochsenheimer includes Phlogophora in a division of the Hadense 

 of Schrank ; but his continuator, Treitschke, has formed it into 

 a genus including Euplexia (before described) and several other 

 continental species ; but it is evident that if we are to consider meta- 

 morphosis and outline of any importance in the discrimination of 

 Lepidopterous genera, as doubtless they are, it is impossible to asso- 

 ciate the present genus either with Euplexia or Hadena. Phlo- 

 gophora approximates in metamorphosis to Cucullia, though its 

 affinity to Simyra is very remote; it agrees with Euplexia in 

 folding the anterior wnngs longitudinally during repose, a posture 

 assumed by no other indigenous genera of this family ; and from 

 that genus the present is at once distinguished with facility by the 

 wings as well as the cilia, being deeply indented or notched; the 

 anterior being elongate triangular, with a very deep excavation 

 behind the middle of the posterior margin, reaching to the anal 

 angle, and bearing three denticulations. 



Sp. 1. meticulosa. Alis anticis eroso-dentatis, pallidis, hasi incarnatd, fascid 

 triangulari medio purpurascenfe. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 9 hn. 2 unc.) 



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