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Species 4. — Pancalia pusco-.«nea — (Haworth, &c.; Wood, fig. 1383, and our Plate CXIII., Fig. 15) — 

 Expands 7 lines ; fore wings brassy-brown and shining, with a coppery gloss ; hind wings linear-subulate, 

 black and glossy. Taken in the Kentish Woods, in June, but very rare. 



Species 5. — Pancalia fusco-cdprea — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1384, and our Plate CXIII., Fig. 16) 

 — Allied to the preceding, but smaller, (expanding 5^ to 6 lines,) with broader wings, the fore ones of coppery- 

 brown without spots ; the hind ones brown and glossy. Taken near London and Ripley, in June. 



Species 6. — Pancalia Merianella — (Linnaeus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1385, and our Plate CXIII., Fig. 17) 

 — Expands 6 lines ; fore wings black, with three silvery, divaricating fasciaa, being widest apart on the inner 

 margin of the wing ; the first simple and oblique, the second flexuous and central, and the third strongly bifid; 

 on the apical margin is also a silvery spot. Taken in the New Forest, and elsewhere, in June. 



CALLISTO, Stephens. 

 The palpi are slender, divaricating, and curved upwards ; the terminal joint longer than the second, and 

 very slender and acute at the tip ; the head clothed with smooth, metallic scales ; the wings convoluted, the 

 anterior sublinear-triangular ; the disc pale, metallic, occasionally with stUl paler metallic marginal markings. 



Species 1. — Callisto guttea "> — (Haworth; Wood, fig. 1386, and our Plate CXIII., Fig. 18) — 

 Expands 5i lines ; head fulvous ; abdomen brown, with a fulvescent anal tuft ; fore wings black, with three or 

 four equidistant costal spots, and two alternating in the middle of the inner margin, all white, and occasionally 

 confluent into transverse fasciae. Taken in woods, at the end of June. 



" Synonyme. — Tinea Merianella, Hiibner. 



Species 2. — Callisto Fyeslella ° — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1387, and our Plate CXIII., Fig. 19) — 

 Expands o\ lines ; fore wings obscure golden, beyond the middle with five silvery transverse streaks, of which 

 the three outer are abbreviated ; at the anal angle is a transverse black stroke, in which are three or four 

 minute silvery dots, and a black dot at apex. Taken on commons, among rushes, in June. 



" SvNONYME. — Phalana triguttella, DonoTan. 



Species 3. — Callisto fdsco-cdprella p — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1388, and our Plate CXIII., Fig. 20) 

 — Expands 5^ lines ; head fulvous ; fore wings dark golden-coppery, immaculate, but in certain lights with an 

 obsolete purplish brown tinge ; hind wings black ; fringe brown. Taken near London, &c., in June, but 

 very rare. 



P Stnonyme. — Tinea Erxlebella, Fabricius ? 



Species 4. — Callisto fusco-viridella — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1389, and our Plate CXIII., Fig. 

 21) — Expands 5 to 6 lines ; fore wings dark brown-green, or brownish gold, shining, and without any spots 

 or marks, sometimes ashy-brown without the golden tinge. Taken on heaths, and in places where broom 

 abounds, in June and July. 



HARPAGUS, Stephens. 

 The palpi are considerably longer than the head and recurved, with the apical joint slender and longer than 

 the preceding, with the tip acute ; the fore wings slightly depressed in repose ; rather long, broader than in the 

 allied genera, rather rounded on the apical margin, with short fringe ; they are of a deep black colour, with a 

 single slender, transverse, pale bar : they frequent willows and poplars. 



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