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Genus CLXVIII. — Hibernia, Latre'ille. 



Palpi very short, scarcely reaching beyond the forehead, composed of three 

 short joints, the basal one most robust : max/lice obsolete. Antennw bipectinated 

 to the apex in the males, the radii very fine and ciliated with rather long 

 hairs; simple and rather long in the females: head small: thorax slender, 

 squamous: wings entire, forming a triangle during repose; anterior ge- 

 nerally tinted with flavescent, with transverse strigae ; posterior simple ; 

 females apterous : /e^.? very long. Larva •with. 10 legs, smooth, not tuber cu- 

 lated ; head rounded; change in a folliculus on the surface of the ground. 



Since I proposed the name Lampetia to designate this genus, I 

 have discovered that it has been long employed for a genus of fossils : 

 — I have therefore adopted Latreille's name from Duponchel : — this 

 genus also forms a portion of Treitschke's Fidonise, but from the 

 typical species of that genus this may be known by the less pec- 

 tinated antennae, and elongate thin anterior wings of the males, 

 and the total want of the latter organs in the females: — all the 

 species are brumal, beginning to appear at tlie ftdl of the leaf. 



Sp. 1. capreolaria. AUs anticis griseo-rufescentibus atomosis, strigd recta anticCi 

 evanexcente , fascidque marginali saturatiorihus, in qua ordo macularum pal- 

 lidarum. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 7 lin.) 



Ge. capreolaria. Esper. — La. stictaria. Steph. Catal.partu p. 116. K'o. fi4-1.8. 

 Albin, pi. xliv.J". 72. a—d. 



Pale griseous: anterior wings reddish-griseous, thickly irrorated with ferrugi- 

 nous dots, with an incurved darker striga at the base, a second oblique straight 

 one before the middle, and a repanded fuscous one behind, toward which 

 a marginal rufescent fimbria adjoins, in which is a row of pale spots; the 

 posterior margin has a row of black dots, and between the second and third 

 strigae, towards the centre, is an oblong fuscous spot, which is frequently 

 united to the third striga : the posterior wings whitish, but little sprinkled 

 with ferruginous, with a fuscous central dot, and an indistinct transverse 

 striga behind the middle. Female with the head reddish : body griseous- 

 brown, with a silken griseous tuft at the apex: legs brown, spotted with 

 yellow. 



The male varies considerably in colour, as well as in the intensity of its 



markings. 

 Caterpillar fawn-yellow, with the four first segments longitudinally striped with 

 four delicate brown lines edged with bright yellow, and some bright red ones 

 between, the rest of the body varied with brown and yellow dots and lines, 

 with a row of whitish dots on each side; head brown edged with yellow: legs 

 light yellow:— it feeds on the oak and birch:— pupa green-brown, with the 

 abdomen fulvous. 



Haustellata. Vol. III. 30tii April, 1831. m 



