189 HAUSTELLATA. — LEriDOPTERA. 



of the same colour, two sinuated pale-ochraceous strigae, one before, the other 

 beyond, the middle, between which is a whitish spot : abdomen, upper por- 

 tion of the inferior wings, and the extremity of the cilia whitish : legs yellowish- 

 white, thighs green, anterior tibia sub ferruginous on the inside, underside 

 with the outer striga continued round the inferior wings, in the disc of which 

 is a whitish spot, as in the superior wings." — Curtis, I. c. 



I have never seen a specimen of this apparently beautiful insect, 

 wliicli is introduced as British from the work last quoted ; having 

 been taken in the larva state near " Southchurch, Essex, and the 

 moth produced on the 30th June, 1826." — Curtis, I. c. 



Sp. 3. Cythisaria. Aiis viridibus, strigis duabus Jlexuosis lunulaque interjectd, 

 saturatioribus, tertiaque versus marginem posticum alhicante. (Exp. alar. 1 

 unc. 5 — 6 lin.) 



Ge. Cythisaria. Wien. Ferz. — Hip. Cythisaria. — Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 123. 

 No. 6485. Wilkes, pi. 75. 



Of a delicate pale green — from age inclining to a pale ashy hue, and sometimes 

 nearly white: anterior wings with an incurved, darker green, flexuous striga 

 before the middle, and a second, more flexuous, behind, and between them 

 a lunular dark line ; towards the hinder margin a third whitish undulated 

 striga ; posterior wings with a single dark striga behind the middle, and a 

 pale one towards the hinder margin : cilia of all the wings pale. 



Caterpillar green, with a pale lateral line : — it feeds on the broom (Spartium ScO' 

 parium), Geniata tinctoria, and G. pilosa, &c. : the pupa is slender, yellowish- 

 green : — the imago appears towards the end of July. 



Common on some of the heaths, &c., near London; especially 

 on the green near Ripley, and on the warren at Coombe-wood. 

 " Cobble-hall, Durdan, &c."— T. C. Heijsham, Esq. " Epping." 

 — Mr. Douhleday. 



Genus CLXXXIV.— Cleora. 



Palpi rather conspicuous, porrected obliquely, thickly clothed with scales, the 

 terminal joint concealed; triarticulate, the basal longer than the second, curved 

 upwards near the base, and rather thickened at the apex ; second filiform, 

 truncate; third minute, oval : maxillce nearly as long as the antennae. Antennas 

 rather long, bipectinated about three-fourths of the length in the males, simple 

 at the apex and in the females, but slightly pubescent within : head small : 

 thorax slender, squamous, with an obscure crest behind : wings partially ex- 

 tended during repose, anterior entire, posterior with the hinder margin slightly 

 indented : abdomen slender, with a tuft at the apex in the males, stouter and 

 very acute at the tip in the females. Larva with 10 legs, elongate, slightly 

 tubercular : pupa in a foUiculus sunongst leaves. 



