190 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Not very uncommon on walls in gardens within the metropolitan 

 district, and occasionally in woods and thickets in May. " Allesley." 

 — Rev.W.T.Bree. "Ep^'mg.'''' — Mr. Doubledai^. " Weston-on- 

 the-green." — Kev. A. H. Matthews. 



Genus CLXXXVIL— Boarmia. 



Palpi short, porrected horizontally, densely clothed with short scales, the ter- 

 minal joint concealed; triarticulate, the two hasal joints of equal length, the 

 former curved, the second more robust and ovate, the terminal one minute ' 

 maxillcE rather short. Antennoe short, each joint in the males producing a row 

 of curved hairs, simple in the females : head small : eyes globose : thorax 

 small, velvety: wings placed horizontally during repose; of a pale hue, 

 speckled with dusky, and marked with irregularly dentate dark strigse ; the 

 anterior entire ; the posterior deeply indented on the hinder margin : abdomen 

 slender, attenuated in the males; shorter and acuminated in the females. 



Having employed the term Boarmia in my Catalogue to such 

 indigenous species of Treitschke's Boarmise as have the antennae 

 of the males pilose instead of pectinated, and the wings of a very 

 pale-ashy or white hue, with numerous minute freckles and im- 

 perfect darker strigse, it is here retained, although, strictly, Cleora 

 cinctaria — which had been previously characterized — forms the type 

 of Boarmia, as placed in Treitschke''s at that time un characterized 

 genus : in which particular I have been however followed, and 

 shall therefore here retain the name : — the species greatly resemble 

 each other ; but as the leading characters of most have been well 

 pointed out by Haworth, I have followed his characters. 



Sp. 1. tetragonaria. Alhido-cinerea, alls fusco-nebulosis, strigis communibus 

 obsoletissime denticulatis saturatioribus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6 — 8 lin.) 



Ge. tetragonaria. Haworth MSS. Bo. tetragonaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. 



■p. 125. No. 6504>.— Curtis, vi. pi. 280. 



Whitish-ash ; wings clouded with fuscous, and irrorated rather thickly with 

 the same ; the anterior with a whitish fascia in the middle, a double irregu- 

 larly curved fuscous striga towards the base, a darker somewhat denticulated 

 one behind the middle, adjoining to which are two subquadrate fuscous 

 clouds ; the hinder margin is clouded with fuscous, and has an undulated 

 whitish striga ; the extreme edge of the wing is spotted with black : posterior 

 wings with an indented fuscous line beyond the middle, and a shorter one 

 placed obliquely anterior thereto, and towards the hinder margin two or three 

 pale undulated ones, alternating with fuscescent. 



