92 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



different form to those of the other species, by the former character beauti- 

 fully leading the way to the brilliantly ornamented Plusise. I have, however, 

 not thought proper to discriminate it further from the other Cucuhife. 



One example only of this remarkably beautiful insect lias hitherto 

 been captured in Britain ; this was taken about twenty years ago 

 near " Dedingstone, by Mr. Slielton."" — Dr. Leach. 



Genus CXLI. — Chariclea mA«. 



Palpi short, curved upwards, entirely clothed with long scales and hair ; the 

 basal joint cylindric, a little curved, about as long as the other two united; 

 second two-thirds the length of the basal, ovate-acuminate, terminal very 

 short, ovate, obtuse: maxillce longer than the antennae. Antennce slender, 

 elongate, simple in both sexes, pubescent beneath, the basal joint large, 

 very pilose beneath: head subtrigonate : e^/es rather large, globose, naked: 

 thorax sUghtly crested anteriorly : abdomen short, and rather cylindric, with 

 a slightly bifid tuft at the apex, in the males ; elongated, acute, somewhat 

 depressed, with short dorsal and lateral fascicles of scales, in the females : 

 wings deflexed, entire; anterior sublanceolate ; cilia elongate: legs rather 

 short and stout, pilose ; anterior tihice very short, armed with two shining 

 horny spines at the apex, the inner one long and curved. Larva naked, 

 fleshy, smooth : pupa simple, foUiculated. 



The acute glossy spines that arm the apex of the anterior tibise 

 (a character which I have elsewhere only observed in the Pome- 

 ridian genus Petasia) serve at once to distinguish this genus from 

 the other Noctuidse ; it is also further distinguished from Cuculiia, 

 to which it is evidently closely allied, by the comparative brevity 

 of the maxillae, wings, and abdomen, by the terminal joint of the 

 palpi being completely enveloped in scales, and in other less im- 

 portant particulars, exclusively of the liveliness of its colours. 

 Ochsenheimer and Treitschke include this genus in their artificial 

 one Xylina, without even constructing a section for its reception. 



Sp. 1. Delphinii. Alis anticis purpurascentibus, fasciis duabus alhidis, posticis 

 albidis Jimbrid fused extus purpureo marginatd. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 4 lin.) 



Ph. No. Delphinii. Linne. — Ch. Delphinii. Curtis, ii. pi. 76. Steph. Catal. 

 part ii. p. 104. No. 6368. 



Head and thorax ochreous white : anterior wings at the base with a broad 

 trilobed bright rosy-purple fascia, bordered with a slender fuscous and 

 whitish striga; a Uttle behind the middle, towards the hinder margin, is a 

 narrower one of similar colours ; the space between these is of a pale rich 

 rosy-lilac, and bears a small oval pale rosy-ochreous spot in place of the 



