242 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



united on the costa to the base by a dark streak ; behind the posterior one is a 

 flexuous row of fuscous spots, and at the apex is an oblique streak; the hinder 

 margin is shghtly clouded^, a^ji. the cilia are fuscous at the apex, but imma- 

 culate at the anal angle. Female more obscurely marked. 



Some specimens are more clouded than others, and in rare instances the strigae 

 are completely obliterated: they frequently, however, vary a little in position. 



Caterpillar yellowish-green, with the margins of the segments and the head 

 yellow ; it feeds on the whitethorn and bedstraw, &c. :— the imago appears 

 at the end of July. 



Very abundant in gardens, and in bushy lanes throughout the 

 metropolitan district. " Epping." — Mr. Doubleday. " Strand-ou- 

 the-green." — Rev. A. H. Mattheivs. " Cummersdale." — T. C. 

 Hey sham, Esq. " Raeliills."— Era. W. Little. " Newcastle."— 

 G. Walks, Esq. 



Genus CCVI. — Celma mihi. 



Palpi short, porrected obliquely, acute, very squamous, the terminal joint 

 distinct ; triarticulate, the basal joint short, robust, the second longer and 

 slender, terminal minute, subovate : maxillae short. Antenna; simple in both 

 sexes, strongly pubescent in the males : head small : forehead slightly pro- 

 minent: thorax slender: wings entire, placed in a triangle during repose; 

 anterior sublanceolate, traversed by simple strigiE ; posterior immaculate : 

 abdomen short and slender, rather obtuse in the female, with a small tuft at 

 the apex in the males ; sexes slightly dissimilar, females smallest. 



There is doubtless considerable affinity between this and the fol- 

 lowing genus, but still there exists abundant cause for disuniting 

 them : in the first place the proportions and form of the palpi are 

 very different, as well as the form and texture of the wings, and 

 of the abdomen ; the sexes are slightly dissimilar, and the females 

 smaller than the males. 



Sp. 1. imbutata. Albido-cinereis, striga basi,fasciisque duabus subconfluentibus 

 medio Juscis, externa rosed adnata. (Exp. alar. 10 — 13 lin.) 



Ge. imbutata. Hilhner. — El. ? imbutata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 136. No. 6586. 

 — La. imbutata. Curtis, vii. pi. 324. 



Anterior wings pale gray shghtly clouded, with a brown striga near the base ; 

 two open waved fascise of the same in the middle, frequently united towards 

 the inner margin of the wing, the basal one shghtly incurved, and the outer 

 one somewhat flexuous, with two dentate processes towards the costa, adjoining 

 to which is a rosy tint ; near the apex, on the costa, is a brown spot, and at 

 the apex arises a broad waved striga, which extends to the anal angle, forming 



