NOCTUID^:. BREPHA. 135 



straight and deep angulations of the striga on the anterior wings, and the 

 scarcely angulated basal fasciae on the posterior, with pale clouded cilia. 

 Caterpillar bluish-ash, prettily spotted with black; — it feeds on the oak: — the 

 imago appears towards the end of June. 



Also a local species ; but in certain years abounding in the larva 

 state in the oaks near Brockenhurst in the New Forest: in 1821 

 I received several dozens of larva from thence in spirits, and about 

 forty of the moths, but amongst them there were neither the 

 larva nor imago of the preceding species, which many persons assert 

 is merely a variety, as a solitary specimen or two of Ca. promissa 

 has been found in company with the foregoing in Richmond Park. 

 Also taken plentifully in 1828, in the same neighbourhood, by Mr. 

 Weaver. 



Sp. 7. conjuncta. Alis anticis cinereo-fuscis, nigra nebulosis; posticis coccineis, 

 fascid medid rectCi subUneari, tenuissimft, fimbriCtque nigris. (Exp. alar- 

 2 unc. 4 lin.) 



No. conjuncta. Esper. — Ca. conjuncta. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 113. No. 

 6429. 



Head and thorax of an ashy-browoi mixed with black and white; anterior 

 wings the same, clouded with black, with a grayish-white central fascia and 

 an undulated, somewhat indented, posterior striga ; the anterior striga is black 

 at its origin on the costa and somewhat fasciseform, terminating towards the 

 inner margin in a slightly waved duplex black streak ; in the central whitish 

 fascia is a yellowish patch, edged with dusky, and a faint auricular mark be- 

 tween it and the costa ; the posterior margin of the fascia is very flexuous and 

 edged with a deep black and fuscous striga ; the hinder undulated posterior 

 whitish striga is faintly edged with fuscous, and the hinder margin of the 

 wing is terminated by a series of lunular black spots with whitish margins ; 

 cilia fuscous-ash : posterior wings crimson, with a nearly straight, sublinear, 

 black, slender fascia, tapering towards the inner edge, in the middle, and a 

 broad black fimbria, having a minute whitish blotch on its margin near the 

 apex of the wing ; cilia white at the apex, cinereous, spotted with fuscous 

 towards the inner margin. 



A single specimen has been found near Dulwich ; a second was 

 in the collection of Mr. Jones ; and I possess one from the Mar- 

 shamian collection, but of its locality I am not aware. 



Genus CLX. — Brepha, Huhnei\ 



Palpi very short, concealed in the hairs of the head which are divergent — the 

 two first joints being of nearly equal length, the basal most robust; apical 

 slender, ovate : maxillce as long as the antennae. Antennas moderate, simple 



