110 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



This insect is subject to considerable variety : in some specimens the anterior 

 'vings are luteous-ash^ with the fasciae nearly visible ; in others they are as 

 above, with the fasciae much suffused over the surface; the colour of the pos- 

 terior wings also varies ; in one specimen which I possess they are luteous, 

 varied with black as above :— this example closely resembles Noctua scutosa of 

 Hiibner, but it is in too bad a condition to determine its identity. 



Caterpillar red, with a cinereous head, the body with interrupted whitish lines; 

 it is polyphagous, feeding upon various species of teazle (dipsacus), plantain, 

 dock, &c. : —the imago appears about the middle of July. 



Also an uncommon species ; found occasionally flying in the 

 clover fields, by day, near Darenth-wood ; and in 1818 I saw- 

 three or four specimens in the beginning of August, sporting about 

 the vicinity of Broadstairs : it has been taken in the New Forest by 

 Mr. Dale ; and near Brighton and Dover. " Parley-heath, Hants, 

 not uncommon." — Mr. Ingpen. 



Genus CXLVIII. — Anarta, Ochsenheimer. 



Palpi short, very densely clothed with elongate hair-like scales, the terminal 

 joint concealed; the two basal joints of equal length ; the basal stout, slightly 

 curved, the second rather more slender, sublinear, terminal very minute, sub- 

 globose: maxilicE as long as the antennae. Antennw similar in both sexes, 

 pubescent within: head sraaU: eyes globose, sometimes pubescent: thorax 

 obscurely crested: abdomen short, robust or slender, the sides and apex 

 ciliated : wings deflexed during repose ; anterior sublanceolate, or triangular, 

 entire ; cilia short ; posterior rather small, of lively colour, with a dark fim- 

 bria; cilia very robust. Larva naked, spotted, with sixteen legs; pupa en- 

 closed in a folliculus on the ground. 



Anarta (which with propriety might be formed into two genera ; 

 the first embracing the typical species, with a robust body, pu- 

 bescent eyes, sublanceolate gaily coloured anterior wings, ob- 

 scurely crested thorax, &c. ; the second, which I had provisionally 

 called Gymnopa in m.y MS., containing those with the body 

 slender, eyes naked, anterior wings subtriangular, and rather 

 sombre, the thorax smooth, palpi very short and nearly concealed in 

 the scales of the front) may be known from the preceding genera by 

 the pubescence of its eyes, or the relative slenderness of the ab- 

 domen, exclusively of the proportions of the articulations of the 

 palpi, of which the terminal joint is nearly obsolete, and the two 

 basal ones nearly of an equal length as in Heliothis ; from which 

 genus the subcrested hairy thorax distinguishes the typical species, 

 and the tenuity of the abdomen the remainder. Like the three 



