New British Psyche. xcix 



white hairs ; a white line on each side of the face ; a tuft of white hairs in front of the 

 eyes on each side of the mouth ; epistoma armed with black and white spines ; eyes 

 black ; fore part nearly flat, its facets larger than those elsewhere : sucker black, 

 clothed with tawny hairs : palpi black, very thickly beset with black bristles : feelers 

 black : abdomen obconical towards the tip, longer and narrower than the chest : legs 

 black, clothed with black hairs and bristles ; hind-legs, especially the shanks, deeply 

 fringed with black hairs ; foot-cushions dark tawny : wings brown, adorned with blue 

 reflections, blackish at the base and along part of the hind border; wing-ribs, veins 

 and poisers black. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 

 South America. 



Francis Walker. 



Art. VI. — Description of a second Lepidopterous Insect of the genus Psyche, recently 

 discovered in Britain ; and proposed separation of a well-known European species 

 under a new generic name. By Edward Newman. 



Psyche Fenella, Mas. 



Antenna dimidio corporis fere longiores quasi 3\-articulat<B, articulis 3 — 30 ramulos 

 duobus ad apicen emittentibus ; aim hyalince nitidce pilis nigerrimis sparsis obsita ; 

 corporis dorsum nigrum nitidum pilis undique nigris obsitum, abdominis lateribus 

 apiceque testaceis. (Alarum, latitudo '775 unc. Corporis longitudo -325 unc.) 



Male. Antennae somewhat more than half the length of the body, apparently 31- 

 jointed: each of the joints, with the exception of the first, second and thirty-first, 

 emits two branches from its apex ? ; these branches gradually decrease in length from 

 the fifth or sixth pair to the last ; near the apex of the antennas they are not only de- 

 cidedly shorter than elsewhere, but also decidedly clavate ; in colour these branches 

 are dark brown, almost black, and are clothed with hairs of the same colour; 

 the shaft of the antenna is distinctly and beautifully annulated, the basal ? portion of 

 each joint being pale testaceous, and the apex ? emitting the branches, concolorous 

 with the branches, or nearly black. Head black, almost concealed in long black hair 

 which covers the base of the antennas, and renders it difficult, if not impossible, to 

 pronounce on the exact number of these joints : the eyes are intensely black. The 

 entire dorsal surface of the thoracic and abdominal segments is shining and black, 

 with the exception of a narrow band at the base and also the extreme apex of the 

 abdomen: this shining surface is beset with long blackish hairs which are abundant 

 on the sides, but more sparingly distributed down the middle: the abdominal seg- 

 ments beneath are black, very shining, and almost destitute of hairs along the middle, 

 but at the sides they are testaceous and sprinkled over with black hairs. In the spe- 

 cimen described the fore and middle legs are wanting ; the hind legs are of moderate 

 size, the femora and tibiae black ; the taisi paler; the claws pitchy and widely divari- 

 cating. Wings transparent, colourless, sprinkled over with moderately long and very 

 black hairs. 



Female. Hitherto I have had no opportunity of examining this sex, but Mr. Dou- 

 bleday informs me that it possesses legs and antennae, characters in which it very 

 decidedly differs from the apod scolicomorphous females of several asceitained species. 



