128 HAUSTELLATA. LF.PIDOPTERA. 



Stigmata ; posterior large, with the base pale and the margin of darker hue ; 

 cilia moderate : bod^ elongate, rather stout, with tufts of hair on the posterior 

 segments above: legs rather short; tibice short, robust, the intermediate and 

 posterior densely clothed with elongate hairy scales. 

 Caterpillar slightly hairy, twelve-footed ; with two dorsal and two caudal spines 

 or protuberances : pupa folliculated. 



From Opliiusa, Catephia is distinguished by having the palpi 

 approximating at the apex, and forming a kind of beak, with their 

 terminal joint very conspicuous, and acute, before denudation ; the 

 basal joint is clothed with elongate hair-like scales, and the two 

 others with short compact ones ; the thorax is slightly crested, and 

 the larva is distinguished by having dorsal and anal protuberances 

 as in some of the Catocalse. 



t Sp. 1. leucomelas. Alis anticis nigricantijuscis, atro undatis, margine externa 

 cinerascenti ; posticis nigris hasi maculisc/ue duahus marginalihis albis. 

 (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.) 



Ph. No. leucomelas. Linne. — Ca. leucomelas. Steph. Catal.pt. ii. p. 111. No. 

 6420. 



Head, thorax and anterior wings of a deep fuscous or dusky-black, the latter 

 with darker undulated strigs, and a paler one towards the hinder margin, 

 which is somewhat fuscescent; the stigmata are also of the latter hue; cilia 

 griseous: posterior wings black, with a large white patch at the base, and two 

 spots on the margin of the same colour; cilia white, with dusky clouds. 



Caterpillar ash-coloured, spotted with yellowish, with the head bluish : —it 

 feeds on the oak. 



Of this fine species also a single example only is known, which 

 is in Mr, Haworth's cabinet, but I am not aware of its locality, Mr. 

 Haworth having obtained it from Mr. Francillon's collection. 



Sp. 2. trifasciata. Alis anticis cinereo-glaucis fasciis tribus fuscescentibus ; pos- 

 ticis fuscis margine saturatiore. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 10 hn.) 



Ca. trifasciata, mihi. — Steph. Catal.pt. ii. p. 111. JVo. 6421. 



Head and thorax fuscous : anterior wings glaucous-ash, the base immaculate, 

 with three nearly equidistant broad deep fuscous nearly parallel fasciae, the 

 first before the middle, the second, which is broadest, behind the middle, 

 and the third on the hinder margin ; between the first and second is a sub- 

 quadrate pale spot, placed as it were between the stigmata, which are barely 

 visible, and towards the hinder margin, between the two posterior fasciae is a 

 row of minute black dots ; cilia fuscous, hoary at the anal angle : posterior 

 wings fuscous, with the hinder margin and an oblique striga behind the 

 middle darker ; in the marginal fimbria are two somewhat-waved pale trans- 

 verse strigae ; cilia ashy-brown. 



