236 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Genus CCIV. — Anticlea mihi. 



Palpi very short, porrected obliquely, densely squamous; the terminal joint 

 acute j triarticulate, the basal joint short, bent ; the second equal, sub- 

 cylindric; terminal minute: maxillcB rather short. Antennae smr^Xe m both 

 sexes, compressed at the base in the males; head small: eyes globose: thorax 

 slender, with a slight squamous crest behind : wings rather broad, the hinder 

 margins considerably rounded and more or lessminutely indented, the anterior 

 traversed by a fascia at the base and an unsolid one on the disc, the outer 

 edge of which towards the inner margin of the wing is generally terminated by 



■ a series of arches or angular marks : abdomen slender, especially in the males, 

 and furnished at the apex with a small tuft ; somewhat stouter and obtuse in 

 the females. Larva with 10 legs, slender, rugose, glabrous. 



Tills genus differs manifestly from the foregoing in the structure 

 of the antennae, the shortness of the palpi, brevity and rotundity of 

 the wings, of which the anterior are adorned with an unsolid central 

 fascia, having its hinder margin terminated by a series of arcs : the 

 antennae of the males are simple, thickened at the base, and com- 

 pressed. 



Sp, 1. Berberata. Alis anticis rufo-cinerascentibus, fasciis tribus lineoldque 



apicisfuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 3 lin.) 

 Ge. Berberata. Wien. Verz. — Ha. Berberata. Steph. Catal.pt. ii. p. 132. i\^o, 



6560. 



Anterior wings reddish-ash ; towards the base is a narrow fuscous fascia, a second 

 before the middle, both slightly flexuous j beyond the middle is a third, very 

 strongly dentate behind, and vanishing towards the inner margin, the space 

 between the two latter pale-ash ; from this last fascia to the hinder margin the 

 wing is darker, with a rufescent-brown patch on the costa, and a rather obscure 

 whitish undulated line arising from its outer edge ; and at the apex is an oblique 

 black streak : posterior wings cinerascent, with an obsolete fuscous striga be- 

 hind the middle, and some obscure waved strigae on the margin ; the hinder 

 margin of all with an interrupted black streak : cilia cinereous, slightly clouded 

 with fuscous. 



Caterpillar rough, varied with fuscous, white and red ; it feeds on the barberry 

 (Berberis vulgaris) :— the imago appears towards the middle of June. 



Rare ; and I believe not found within the metropolitan district : 

 it has been taken in Berkshire. " Beachamwell." — /. Scales, Esq. 

 " Strand-on-the-green." — Rev. A. H. Matthews. 



Sp. 2. rubidata. Alls anticis Jlammeo-rubris fascid basi fused, alterdque medio 

 insolidd, externe argute crenatd. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. — 1 unc. 2 lin.) 



