196 BRITISH MOTHS 



APLOTA, Stephens. 

 Mr. Stephens has separated the present genus from the preceding, on account of wanting the bristle-like 

 appendage towards the apex of tlie palpi, which are elongate, diverging, clavate, compressed, and densely 

 clothed with scales, nearly concealing the terminal joint ; the fore wings are somewhat linear, with the apical 

 margin obliquely truncate, and the disc plain and dingy. 



Species 1. — Aplota palpella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1249, and our Plate CIX., Fig. 1) — 

 Expands about ^ an inch ; fore wings brown, with a slight golden tinge produced by fine golden scales, with a 

 double black dot before and another larger beyond the middle ; inner margin with a paler streak ; hind wings 

 and fringe blackish. July, near Ripley. 



ENICOSTOMA, Stephens. 

 The palpi are very long, recurved, and clavate, with the tip of the terminal joint exposed and naked ; the 

 fore wings broadly sub-lanceolate, with several raised tufts of scales on the disc ; they are of dark colours, and 

 not varied with metallic tints, as in the following groups. 



Species 1. — Enicostoma Thunbergana J — (Fabricius, &c. ; AVood, fig. 1250, and our Plate CIX., Fig. 3) 



— Expands 8 or 9 lines ; fore wings obscure ashy-brown, with two black tufts of scales on the disc before, and 



two smaller beyond the middle, occasionally obsolete ; hind wings rather paler. Gardens near London, and in 



Devonshire, in June. 



J Synonysie. — Tinea lobelia^ Hiibner. 



ALABONIA, HuBNER. ENICOSTOMA, pars Stephens (Cat.) 

 The palpi nearly equal the body in length, and are very divergent, with the terminal joint very slender and 

 acute ; the fore wings rather broadly lanceolate, ornamented with bright and metallic tints, and the antennae 

 are of moderate length. 



Species 1. — Alabonia Geofproyella — (Linnaeus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1251, and our Plate CIX., Fig. 4) — 

 Expands from 8 to 10^ lines ; basal portion of the fore wings golden-yellow shaded to ochre, to the apical part, 

 which is orange-brown ; the base with two silvery longitudinal streaks, the anterior deflexed at its extremity, 

 and with a third silvery oblique streak arising near the middle of the costal ; beyond the middle are two large 

 triangular whitish spots placed on the opposite margins of the wing ; hind wings brown. Common in woods 

 and hedges about the beginning of June. 



(ECOPHORA, Latbeille. DASYCERA, Haworth. 

 The palpi are longer than the head and recurved, with the terminal joint very slender, and naked ; the 

 antennte of moderate length, with the base stout, being pilose beneath as far as the middle, beyond which they 

 have a pale coloured ring ; the fore wings are very much deflexed when at rest, long, and rather narrow, and 

 handsomely variegated with yellow markings. The species fly by day. 



Species 1.— CEcophoba Oliviella ''— (Fabricius ; Wood, fig. 1253, and our Plate CIX., Fig. 5)— 

 xpands 6 to 8 linos ; fore wings black, with a golden tinge ; the base with a triangular yellow spot, and a 



