81 ^ HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Ph. No. meticulosa. Linne. Wilkes, pi. 3. — Ph. meticulosa. Steph. Catal. 

 part ii. p. 102. No. 6353. 



Head and thorax yellowish or greenish-white^ the latter with fine transverse 

 greenish-brown strigae, with the apex of the dorsal tufts purplish : anterior 

 wings pale rosy-whitej, the base more of a flesh colour, with a subdolabriform 

 brownish spot on the inner margin ; in the middle of the wing is a large 

 somewhat triangular fascia, tinted with rosy ; in this the stigmata are placed ; 

 they are rather indistinct, especially the posterior ; the anterior is of a rosy 

 hue, with the margin paler, and is united to the posterior, which is obhterated 

 behind in the fuscous fascia ; beyond which is a broad pale rosy space, termi- 

 nating near the hinder margin in an olivaceous fascia, in which is a sublunate 

 dusky or black streak near the apex, which is rosy ; cilia oUvacecus, with a 

 brown tinge towards the anal angle : posterior wings whitish, with the ner- 

 vures, a central lunule, and two or three, more or less distinct, strigae behind 

 the middle brownish; the margins somewhat ochraceous, with brownish 

 ciha. 

 It varies very much in colour, and the ground of the anterior wings is sometimes 

 of a rich purplish-red throughout. 

 • Caterpillar green, or brownish, with a white dorsal and lateral Une, the former 

 interrupted: — it feeds upon various herbaceous plants: — the pupa is shining 

 red-brown: — the imago appears towards the end of April, again in the middle 

 or end of June, and a third brood in September. 



A liighly beautiful and extremely abundant species, frequenting 

 gardens, hedges, woody and sliady lanes, in most parts of the south 

 of England ; in profusion, in certain years, near Dover, especially 

 in June, 1819. " York and Newcastle." — W. C. Hewitson, Esq. 

 '- Black Hall, Cumberland."— 7". C. Hey sham, Esq. 



Genus CXL. — Cucullia, Schrank. 



Palpi short, thickly clothed with loose scales, inclining upwards, the terminal 

 joint slightly exposed, obtuse ; the basal joint longest, curved upwards, rather 

 clavate, the second shorter than the first, slightly attenuated, terminal elon- 

 gate-ovate, acute : maxillce longer than the antennae. AntenncB long, rather 

 slender, simple in both sexes, with a tuft of hair at the base within : head 

 small, rounded: e^/es globose, naked: thorax with an acute crest anteriorly: 

 abdomen elongate, carinated on the back, and generally with fascicles of 

 hair; the apex with a larger tuft, frequently divided: wings defiexed; ante- 

 rior lanceolate, acute at the apex, sometimes denticulated ; posterior small, 

 slightly emarginate. Larva naked : pupa enclosed in an earthen cell, lined 

 with silk, the head-case produced. 



Cucullia, with the exception of the two last species, consists of a 

 very natural assemiblage of insects, which are no less distinguished 

 by the acuteness of their anterior wings and the elongation of their 



