294 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



Ph. Euphorbiata. Wien. Verz.—Don. \. pi. 153./. 1.— Mi. Euphorbiata. Steph. 



Catal.part ii. p. 147. No. 6680. 

 Entirely of an ashy-brown, with a very slight fulvescent tinge, the abdomen and 



legs darker, and the eyes black; wings immaculate: colour sHghtly variable 



in tint. 

 Caterpillar yellowish-green, with white and black dots, with a dark dorsal line 



and a larger spot of the same on the last segment ; head brown : it feeds on 



the Euphorbia Cyparissias and E. Esula:— the imago is found towards the end 



of May. 



Not very common ; found in Oak of Honour wood, Peckham, also 

 at Coombe and Darentli. " Bagley-wood." — Rev. W. T. Bree. 

 " Epping." — Mr. H. Douhleday. 



Genus CCXXX. — Bapta mild. 



Palpi short, remote, ascending, clothed with long scales, obtuse, triarticulate ; 

 the basal joint slender, curved, longer than the other two united; the second 

 short, subcylindric, obscurely attenuated ; terminal rounded, ovate : maxillw 

 long. AntennoB short, slender, simple in both sexes : head small ; forehead 

 slightly prominent: eyes globose: thorax rather stout, rounded, velvety: 

 wings ample, entire, rounded on the hinder margin, colour generally snow- 

 white, with a dark central dot, markings otherwise variable according to the 

 species : body somewhat robust, short, attenuated to the apex in both sexes, 

 slightly tufted in the males. Larva stout : pupa folliculated. 



Bapta is distinguished by its ample pale-snowy-wliite wings, 

 combined with the brevity of the palpi, long maxillse, simple ab- 

 breviated antennse, somewhat robust thorax and abdomen, &c. 



Sp- 1. bimaculata. Alis niveis, puncto ordinario atro medio, anticis maculis 

 duahus costalibus atro-fuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. — 1 unc. 2 lin.) 



Ph. Ge. bimaculata. Fillers. — Ba. bimaculata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 147. 

 Ah. 6683. 



Wings snow-white, all with a minute black dot in the middle ; anterior with 

 two dark fuscous, somewhat trigonal spots on the costa, from whence arise two 

 extremely faint undulated fuscescent strigse, the hinder one common to all 

 the wings ; on the extreme edge of the wings is a faint brownish striga, and 

 the cilia are immaculate. 



Rather local: found in Agg-bush lane, Copenhagen-fields, and 

 in the lanes between Darenth and Birch Woods, in June. " Strand- 

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



