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COLOBOCHYLIA, Hubner, Stephens (Illustk.) MADOPA, Stephens (Cat.) 

 The palpi are short, rather slender, with the terminal joint minute and porrected ; the antennae slightly bipec- 

 tinated in the males ; the fore wings short, subtriangular, traversed by oblique pale strigK, which do not cross 

 the hind wings ; the legs slender and simple ; and the larvsB have only three pairs of ventral feet. 



Species 1. — Colobochylia salicalis'J — (Plate LXXV., Fig. 3) — Measures 12 or 13 lines in expanse ; fore 

 wino-s of a brownish leaden colour, with two straight, nearly parallel, pale yellowish strigse between the base and 

 middle of the wino-s, and a third one towards the apex, which is bent outwards and extends to the tip ; hind 

 wino-s pale ash}', with a dusky mark near the anal angle. The caterpillar is slender, and of a green colour; it 

 feeds on willows ; and the moth appears about the end of June; it is very rare, and has been taken near Bexley 

 and Charlton. 



1" Synonvme. — Puralis salicalis, Wien. Verz. ; Fabricius ; Htibner ; Hawonh ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 769. 





SYNAPHE, Hdbner. 

 The species of this and the next genus differ from the preceding in their elongated bodies and 

 wings ; but in this the labial palpi are very long, hairy, and slightly deflexed, with the terminal joint nearly 

 half the length of the preceding ; tlie maxillary palpi are distinct, and slightly ascending ; the male antennas 

 are bipectinated ; the fore wings with a broad central dark fascia ; the legs are slender and simple. In several 

 of these respects the genus therefore approaches the Crambi. 



Species 1. — Synaphe angustalis "^ — (Plate LXXV., Fig. 4) — Measures 1 inch in expanse; fore wings 

 fulvous or reddish-brown, with a central dusky fascia, narrowed behind, with a paler hind flexuous margin ; the 

 costa dotted with whitish oblong spots, placed obliquely ; and in the middle of the fascia (which is often unsolid) 

 is an ordinary dark dot ; the hind wings brown, with reddish fringe. The female measures only 1 1 lines in 

 expanse, and has the wings somewhat luteous-coloureJ, with the central fascia darker. The caterpillar feeds on 

 the marsh willow-herb ; and the moth is taken in the woods of the south of England, in July, but is very rare. 



•^ Synokvmes. — Pyralis angustalis, Hubner ; Haworth ; Stephens ; 

 Wood, fig. 770. 



Pyralis curtails, Wien. Verz. 



Pyralis Bomhycalis, Hubner ; Haworth (female). 

 Pyralis erigalis, Fabricius. 





CLEDEOBIA, Stephens. 

 Although agreeing in general habit with the last-described insect, the two species of which this genus is 

 composed are destitute of the maxillary palpi, the labial ones being long, porrected horizontally, broad, and 

 densely squamose ; the antennas of the niales strongly ciliated, and the legs slender and simple. 



Species 1. — Cledeobia albistrigatus '• — (Plate LXXV., Fig. .5) — Measures 10 lines in expanse; wing 

 pale brown; the fore ones with a broad, central, darker bar, with black margins, with the ordinary dark dot ; 

 beyond the middle of this bar towards the costa, an obscure, undulated, white, subapical striga, and a marginal 

 row of dark dots ; hind wings without spots. Taken in Kent (near Darenth), Norfolk, and Devonshire. 



^ Synonymes. — Cram6w5 o/iis/ri^a/ws, Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 77]. 



Species 2. — Cledeobia cost^estrigalis '' — (Plate LXXV., Fig. 6) — Measures 10 lines in expanse; 

 wings pale ashy-brown ; the costa with a broad darker patch beyond the middle, terminated by a paler oblique 





