144 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



genus, 1 have been compelled to extract the above very meagre 

 characters from Treitschke andDuponchel — sufficient, however, to 

 enable any one to detect the indigenous species. In my Systematic 

 Catalogue I adopted the name Psychophora of Kirby, from having 

 seen at Barham, ten years since, an injured specimen of Bombyx 

 Sabini, which appeared to be the same with Geometra treoidaria 

 of Hazvorth ; but as Psychophora Sabini is described as having the 

 male antennae bipectinated, that insect is clearly not congenerous ; 

 I have therefore reverted to Treitschke's name Psodos, which has 

 subsequently been characterized. 



f Sp. 1. trepidaria. Alls fuliginosis, fascid media saturatiore, utrdque dentata 

 pallidoque suhmarginatd. (Exp. alar. 10 lin.) 



Ge. trepidaria. Hubner? — Ps. trepidaria. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 114. No. 

 6436. 



Black, with the anal tuft and tarsi smoky : head, thorax, breast, and porrect 

 conspicuous palpi, with long black hairs: antennae above black, beneath 

 smoky, filiform : anterior wings smoky-black at the base, with a short obsolete 

 deep-black line ; then nearly in the middle an oblique smoky-black fascia, 

 much dilated and darker towards the costa, in which is a deep-black dot, in 

 place of the anterior stigma of the Noctuidse: behind this fascia, in certain 

 lights, is a broad, very obsolete, dusky striga, terminating on the costa in a 

 deep-black spot : the costa itself at the ba«e is a little incrassated, and gibbous : 

 posterior wings almost entirely of a dusky black, and the hinder margin of all 

 with a very slender interrupted black striga ; cilia long and smoky. 



The above description from Lepidoptera Britannica is from a 

 specimen taken by Dr. Hooker on Schehalion, one of the Breadal- 

 bane mountains, where I believe the insect has been subsequently 

 taken in June by Mr. Dale. 



+ Sp. 2. alpinata. Alls atris, fascid lata posticd aureo-fulvd communis, mar- 



gine vix attingente. (Exp. alar. 1 unc.) 

 Ge. alpinata. Wiev. Verz. — Ps. alpinata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 114. No. 



6437. 

 Black: all the wings with a broad golden-fulvous abbreviated fascia near the 



hinder margin : cilia gi-ay-black. 



Said to have been taken by Mr. Plasted near Holwood, by 

 Bromley in Kent ; Holywell, as Mr. Haworth informs me, being 

 a typographical error in Lepidoptera Britannica : — on the continent 

 the insect inhabits mountainous districts. 



