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BRITISH JIOTHS 



OXYPATE, HiJBNER; Stephens. CHEIMAPHASIA, Curtis, (Ent. Mag.) 

 The palpi are very short, dependent, and scarcely pilose ; the antennae puhescent heneath, in the naales ; the 

 fore winss in the males are slightly decumbent, very much narrowed at the base, with the costa straight, the 

 disc smooth and glossy, with two dark dots on the disc ; and the female has very minute wings, the tips of 

 which are pilose. 



Species 1. — Oxypate gelatella — (Linnjeus, &c.; Wood, fig. 1270, and our Plate CX., Fig. 6) — The 

 male expands from 7 to 9 lines ; ashy-brown, with a whitish faint streak in the middle of the disc, with a black 

 dot at each end ; hind wings immaculate. The rudimental wings of the female exhibit the two black dots. 

 Taken in December, in Hertfordshire, Hampshire, &c. 



DASYSTOMA, Curtis, (Ent. Mag.) 

 The palpi in the males are densely hairy ; the antennee distinctly ciliated beneath ; the head broad and 

 hairy ; the fore wings with the costa arched, with several veins distended. The female with the wings about 

 half the length of the body . 



Species 1. — Dasystoma salicella — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1271, and our Plate CX., Fig. 7) — 

 Expands 8 or 9 lines, fore wings purplish-brown, with the costa and an irregular patch from the base to beyond 

 the middle rosy, the latter divided by a slightly dusky fascia before and another beyond the middle, abbreviated 

 towards the inner margin : hind wings brown. Taken in woods, in the Autumn, but not common. 



CHEIMOPHILA, HiJBNER. 

 The palpi are rather long, slender, and recurved ; the antennae rather long and pubescent in the males ; the 

 spiral tongue, as in several of the allied groups, is obsolete ; the wings smooth, glossy, and only marked with 

 two dots placed transversely near the tips, and the females are broad and almost destitute of wings. 



Species 1. — Cheimophila Phbyganella^ — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1272, and our Plate CX., Fig. 8) 



— Expands from 10 to nearly 12 lines ,• fore wings obscure testaceous, and occasionally with a longitudinal, 



interrupted, almost obsolete pale streak, terminating in two dark dots placed transversely. Taken in woods, 



about the end of October. 



^ Synonymes. — PhalcBna Tinea LicheJiella, Linnaeus ? 

 Geometra apleraria, Haworth. 



DIURNEA, Haworth. 



The palpi are rather large, porrected obliquely, and thickly squamose, those of the females being rather 

 longer and stouter. The antennte of the males densely pilose : the wings in the male partially lying over each 

 other horizontally, in repose, and very long ; those of the females being shorter and acute at the tips ; the disc 

 pale, with dark irregular markings, like letters. The perfect insects appear in the late autumnal or early 

 Spring months. 



Species 1. — Diurnea Fagella — (Fabricius; Albin, pi. 36, fig. 57 a — e; Wood, fig. 1273, and our Plate 

 ex., Figs, 9, 10, 11) — Expands from 10 to 13 lines (male), or 6 or 7 lines (female) ; fore wings whitish-bu£F, 



