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232 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



woods, and at Darenth, Birch, and Coombe, in July. " Eppin< 

 —Mr. DouUeday. " Strand-on-tlie-green."— iJet;. A. H. Matthews. 

 " Meldon-park, Newcastle, &c."- G. Wailes, Esq. " Raeliills."— 

 Rev. W. Little. 



Genus CCII. — Steganolophia * mild. 



Palpi rather long, much compressed, broad, ascending, clothed with longloose scales 

 at the base, and compact short ones at the apex, which is exposed and acute j 

 triarticulate, the basal joint curved and shghtly thickened, the second as long 

 terminal minute, acute : maxillw rather long. Anfennw simple in both sexes, 

 rather thickened in the males, and the articulations distinct : head small, 

 rounded : eyes globose : thorax slender, squamous, slightly crenated behind : 

 wings entire, placed in a triangle during repose, anterior acute at the apex, the 

 hinder margin rounded, the disc with a broad fascia rather behind the middle, 

 an oblique streak at the apex, including, as it were, a coloured patch on the 

 hinder margin; posterior with undulated marginal lines; beneath, at the base 

 of the anterior in the males, is a long concealed tuft of hairs, capable of 

 being expanded into a broad fan: abdomen long and slender, the male with 

 a large tuft at the apex, with its centre produced and acuminated ; in the 

 female stouter, and with a small tuft at the apex. Larva with ten legs, long, 

 slender, swollen behind the head, which is slightly notched, and thickening 

 from thence to the apex, which is rugose above : pupa folliculated. 



The males of this genus may be readily known by the singular 

 tuft or crest which exists at the base of the anterior wings beneath, 

 but which is generally concealed by the costal edge of the posterior 

 wings ; the abdomen is also very slender and considerably elon- 

 gated, with a larger somewhat trilobed tuft at the apex, and which 

 is considerably elevated during the repose of the animal; the 

 females also may be distinguished not only by the structure of the 

 palpi and their compressed form, but by the broad fascia on tlie 

 anterior wings somewhat behind the middle, with a patch at the 

 apex, and the integrity of their hinder margin : the larva also differs 

 by having the neck swollen, then suddenly attenuated, and the body 

 gradually enlarging to the apex, which is rugose. 



Sp. 1. Prunata. Aiis anticis griseo-cinereis fascia basi, alterd medio macul^que 

 apicis purpurascenti-hrunneis albo mai-ginatis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 6 lin.) 



Ph. Ge. Prunata. Linne. — Don. vii. pi. 233./. 1. — St. Prunata. Steph. Catal. 

 part ii. p. 135. No. 6579. 



* 'S.nyMos, opcrtus ; A.o<po;, crita. 



