94 BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 4. — Symaethis Myllerana " — (Plate LXXVI., Fig. 6) — Measures 5 lines in expanse ; fore -wino-s 



f "'r'f I r^ brown, with a large, pale, atomose patch in the middle of the disc towards the inner margin ; the costa with 



^, i three white spots, and the disc spotted with metallic dots, some of which form an interrupted striga towards the 



apical margin : hind wings brown, with a slender, white, abbreviated striga, and some minute white dots. 



Taken in various parts of the south of England, especially in Devonshire and Dorsetshire, on plants, in June and 



in the autumn. The palpi in this and the next species are fasciculate-squamose. 



" Synonyme.— Pi/raKs Myllerana, Fabricius; Haworth ; Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 320; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 786 



Species 5. — Simaethis pdnctosa ' — (Plate LXXVI., Fig. 7) — Measures 5 lines in expanse; fore wings 

 Skli.VK: somewhat wedge-shaped, with the tip obliquely truncate, brownish; the disc irrorated with minute coppery 

 scales ; costa dotted with white ; fringe white, in front and behind dusky ; hind wings ashy-brown, with an 

 abbreviated whitish striga. Taken in Sussex and Dorsetshire, in August. 



' Synonyme. — Anthophila punctosa, Hawortli ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 787. 



ANANIA, Hubnee, Stephens. PYRAUSTA, pars, Curtis. 

 The antennsB are long, slender, and simple ; the palpi not quite so long as the head ; porrected like a beak 

 and densely squamose ; the maxillary palpi small ; the body elongate ; the wings forming a triangle in repose ; 

 the fore ones elongate-triangular, and all of black colour with large white patches : the middle tibiae in one sex 

 are considerably thickened, and the spurs to the hind legs are greatly elongated, indicating (as I have also 

 observed to be the case in very active genera of other orders *) a great activity and peculiarity of motion. 



Species 1. — Anania octomaculata *" — (Plate LXXVI., Fie. 8) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse ; 

 Iv-iyye-*^^ , black; sides of thorax yellow; abdomen annulated with white; wings with eight white patches of nearly equal 

 ^,21 size. Taken in the woods of Kent, and elsewhere, in June and August, but not common. 



"" Synonymes. — Geometra octomaculata, Linnseus ; (Mantissa) ; | Pyralis guttalis, Wieu. Verz. ; Hiibner. 

 Harris ; Aurelian ; pi. 27, f, p ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 797. 1 Noctua trigutta, Esper. 



Phalasna airalis,Fa.b,; Donov.,8, pi. 266, fig. 4; Haworth; Curtis. I 



ENNYCHIA, Treitschke. PYRAUSTA, pars, Curtis. 

 These insects are very closely allied to the last, differing chiefly in the rather more elongated palpi, an 

 shorter wings, which are of black colours with white fascise or strigse ; and the middle feet, especially the femora, 

 are much elongated. Like the last-described genus, the species fly in the bright sunbeams in grassy places. 



Species 1. — Ennychia anguinalis " — (Plate LXXVI., Fig. 9) — Measures 6 or 7 lines in expanse ; wings 

 black, all with an undulated white striga beyond the middle, and the base slightly but irregularly maculated 

 with the same colour. Taken in the woods of Kent and Middlesex. 



' Synonyme Pyralis anguinalis, Huhnev ; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 789. 



Species 2.— Ennychia ANGULATA J' — (Plate LXXVI., Fig. 10) — Measures from 6 to 8 lines in expanse; 

 77 vnngs black, all with a straight white fascia beyond the middle ; fore wings more acute than in the preceding 



species. Rare ; taken in June, in Devonshire, and near Edinburgh. I have met with it in the Isle of Wight 

 in August. 



y Synonyme. — Pyralis angulata, hmnxxis i Haworth; HUbner ; Stephens; Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 128; Wood, fig. 788. 



* E. p., Orchesia in Coleoptera, and Platyura in Diptera. 



