258 HAUSTELLATA. — LF.PIDOPTERA. 



Caterpillar slender^ with the head brown, the back reddish-brown, the sides 

 with a broad yellow striga : it feeds on the Galium verum : — the imago 

 frequents chalky wastes, and appears towards the end of June, or beginning 

 of July. 



Very local, but apparently extremely abundant where found : it 

 has been found near Brio^hton and Lewes in Sussex, and in Devon- 

 shire. " On the Devil's Ditch and Newmarket Heath." — Rev. L. 

 Jenyns. 



tSp. 6. angustata. Alls griseo-fuscis, fascia obliqud angusta fused medio, puncto 



ordinario ocellari atro. (Exp. alar. 11 lin.) 

 Pha. angustata. Haworth. — Phi. angustata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 139. No. 



6607. 



A'\''ings rufo-fuscous, slightly clouded, with an obsolete crenate fascia in the 

 middle, somewhat incrassated towards the costa, near which is an ocellated 

 spot, having a whitish iris and black pupil: posterior wings as in Ph. lignata, 

 but of a deeper tinge ; the hinder margin of all with some obsolete fuscous 

 dots. 



I have seen three specimens only of this insect, of which one was 

 in the collection of G. Milne, Esq.; another in that of the late Mr. 

 Latham, who caught his specimen, which I saw alive, in a garden 

 at Camden-town, about ten years since, at the end of September ; 

 and the third in that of Mr, Haworth. 



Genus CCXIV. — Lozogramma* rrdhi. 



Palpi very short, remote, scarcely projecting beyond the forehead, acute, tri- 

 articulate ; the basal joint larger and more robust than the second, slightly 

 curved 5 the second very short, cylindric; terminal minute, ovate, acute: 

 maxillcB long. Antennw rather stout, very distinctly annulated, faintly 

 pubescent within in the males, slighter and simple in the females: head&raaXL: 

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

 anterior broad triangular, with two pale oblique lines bordered within with a 

 darker tinge, and a dusky central spot ; posterior ample, ovate- triangular : 

 abdomen very slender, rather elongate, and with a tuft at the apex in the males, 

 short, and obtuse, with a slight tuft in the females: legs rather elongate: 

 tibia dissimilar, anterior very short, subclavate, intermediate slender, posterior 

 elongate, thickened, and in the males producing a fan of hair on the inner 

 side. 



Aoga,-, obli(][uus ; T^a/^/^n, linea. 



