1^4 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTEKA. 



Sp. 1. .Crataegata. Alls prcBSulphureis, antice maculis quatuor costalibus, aut 

 costd ipsissim&,ferrugineis, maculdque medid subargented. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 

 3—8 lin.) 



Ph. Ge. Cratffigata. Linne.—Wilkes, pL 39. f. 80.— N. G. Cratsegata, Steph. 

 Catal part ii. p. 121. No. 6477. 



Of a deep-bright sulphur, with the base of the antennae, lower part of the fore- 

 head, and joints of the legs ferruginous; the anterior wings generally with 

 rather obscure fuscous clouds disposed in strigae, and about four rufo-ferru- 

 ginous spots on the costa, the first oblong at the base, the second smaller 

 towards the middle, the third larger in the middle, and the fourth at the apex, 

 very large and elongate-conic; adjoining the third is a silvery spot, margined 

 with brown, and externally tridenticulate ; posterior wings with a central 

 fuscous spot, and one or more strigse composed of obsolete fuscous clouds : 

 cilia of all sometimes immaculate, at others spotted with dull ferruginous. 



Variable: the fuscous clouds on the wings are more or less obliterated, and 

 sometimes totally wanting ; the ferruginous costal spots are occasionally nearly 

 obliterated; and in some rare instances the costa is entirely from the base to 

 the apex deep duU ferruginous : and I possess one remarkably large example 

 of the female with the body and wings entirely of a bright pale white, barely 

 tinted with sulphureous, with the markings as usual, but bolder. 



Caterpillar pale fuscous, with a bluish spot on each side behind the head, and 

 the tubercles on the sixth segment slightly tinted with reddish : — it feeds 

 chiefly on the whitethorn, and on the sloe, apples, &c. : — the imago appears 

 three or four times in the year, about the beginning of April, June, August, 

 and October. 



Abundant throughout the metropolitan district. " Pretty common 

 in the hedges about Carlisle." — T. C. Heysham, Esq. " Epping."" — 

 Mr. Doubledaij. " Dublin." — N. A. Vigors, Esq. " Newcastle, 

 &c. ; abundant." — G. Wailes, Esq. " Weston-on-the-green." — 

 Rev. A. H. Matthews. — " Edinburgh, abundantly." — Rev. W. Little. 



Genus CLXXIX. — Ourapteryx, Leach. 



Palpi very short, slightly ascending, squamous, triarticulate, the basal joint 

 very pilose, rather stouter than the second, and curved, the second about half 

 the length of the preceding, elongate, ovate, third minute, subglobose: maxillw 

 nearly as long as the antennae. Antennce simple in both sexes, stoutest and 

 obscurely pubescent within in the males : head small ; forehead broad, densely 

 pilose : thorax rather stout, velvety ; beneath rather woolly : wings partly 

 expanded during repose ; anterior entire, subfalcate ; posterior with the middle 

 of the hinder margin truncate-caudate : abdomen slender, stouter in the 

 females : legs moderate ; posterior tibice somewhat compressed, armed with 

 short spurs. Larva with 10 legs, very long, cylindric, attenuated in front. 



