276 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Genus CCXXV. — Lobophora* mihi. 



Palpi short, remote, densely clothed with scales, slightly acute ; triarticulate ; 

 basal joint short, subquadrate; second long, attenuated; terminal short, ovate : 

 maxillw moderate. Antennce short, simple in both sexes, slightly pubescent 

 within in the males : ^eac? small: e^j^e^ globose: ^/ioracc slender: wings entire, 

 extended horizontally during repose; anterior elongate-lanceolate, posterior 

 in the males small, with a lobate appendage at the base of the inner margin ; 

 ample and with a mere rudimentary lobe in the females : abdomen slender, 

 elongated, carinaied down the back, obtuse and tufted at the apex in the 

 males, acute in the females : legs moderate ; posterior tibice slender, some- 

 times with one pair of spurs only. Larva elongate, slender, naked ; head 

 round : pupa subterranean. 



In the structure of the palpi this genus considerably resembles 

 Thera, but from that genus the present may be distinguished by 

 having those parts very short and scarcely visible from above ; also 

 by the slenderness of the antennse, by the lobated appendage, so very 

 conspicuous in the males of the typical species, at the base of the 

 inner margin of the posterior wings. 



A. Posterior tibiae with one pair of spurs: {males with a small lobe at inner base 



of posterior wings.) 



Sp. 1. polycommata. Alis anticis ex griseo-fuscis, fascia media saturatiore 



linedque dentatd albd. 

 Ge. polycommata. Wien. Verz.—Lo. polycommata. Curtis, n. pi. Sl.—Steph. 



Catal. part ii. p. ] 43, No. 6636. 



Pale griseous-brown ; anterior wings with an angulated transverse fuscous striga 

 at the base, and a broad angulated fascia in the middle, having a large oval 

 pale-griseous patch towards the costa, and a minute one towards the inner 

 margin : the posterior margin with several irregularly waved fuscous striga 

 and a pale wave; the hinder margin itself fuscous, with a row of black dots 

 placed in pairs; cilia fuscous: posterior wings pale ochraceous, with two in- 

 dented fuscous strigs towards the hinder margin, and a row of geminated 

 black dots on the extreme edge. 



Caterpillar green, with duU spots and a yellowish lateral line: it feeds on the 

 honeysuckle (LoniceraXylosteum):— the imago appears in the spring. 



Taken early in April in a lane between Eltham and Birch-wood. 

 " Strand-on-the-green, March, 1831."— i?«, A. H. Matthews. 



Ao(jo$, lobus ; (pj^&>, fero. 



