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Species 11. — Aphelosetia marginea — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1426, aad our Plate CXIV., Fig. 



15) Expands 3 or 4 lines ; fore wings fulvous, or dark straw coloured, and immaculate, with the apex hroadly 



margined with brown ; hind wings and fringe pale ashy-brown. Woods and forests, in June. 



Species 12. — Aphelosetta subocellea — (Stephens'' 111.) — Expands 4+ lines; fore wings snow-white; 

 apical portion ochreous ashy, with brown irrorations, with an ocellated spot at the apex ; fringe ochre-white ; 

 hind wings pale ashy-brown. Ripley, in June. 



BATIA, Stephens. 

 The palpi are long, slender, recurved, and divaricating, with the third joint rather shorter than the preceding, 

 more slender and pointed at the tips ; the antennae are moderately long, the abdomen short and slender ; the 

 fore wings very much deflexed in repose, snb-elongate-triangular, obliquely truncate along the apical margin, 

 with long, spreading fringe, the disc generally flavescent or ochreous, immaculate or with a slight dark mark on 

 the inner margin near the anal angle. 



Species 1. — Batia lambdella — (Haworth ; Donovan, 2, Plate 37, fig- 2 ; Wood, fig. 1427, and our Plate 

 CXIV., Fig. 17) — Expands 6 to 7? lines ; fore wings bright tawny and immaculate, except a strong black 

 triangular mark on the inner margin, beyond the middle, emitting an oblique black line, both edged within with 

 white, so as to resemble the Greek letter lambda ; the costa is more or less dusky in certain lights ; hind wings 

 pale brown. Woods and forests in June. 



Species 2. — Batia lunaris — (Haworth ; Curtis, Plate 543 ; Wood, fig. 1428, and our Plate CXIV., Fig. 

 18) — Expands 5i lines ; fore wings ochreous orange, with the apical margin darker ; costa brownish, a small 

 triangular black patch on the inner margin beyond the middle, with another smaller discoidal one attached to its 

 apex obliquely ; hind wings pale gray Whitethorn hedges and on palings round London and elsewhere, 

 in June. 



Species 3. — Batia pormosella — (Plate CXIV., Fig. 19) — Expands 5 lines ; fore wings rich tawny orange, 

 with a very slender and very deeply angulated white line near the base of the wings, slightly edged with black, 

 and followed by a broad dark chesnut-brown central bar, very strongly angulated in the middle on the outside, 

 and narrowed and inflexed towards the inner margin ; this is followed by a large nearly triangular pale patch 

 on the middle of the costa, being white along the oblique edge of the dark fascia, and followed by a darker orange 

 patch towards the tip of the wing ; fringe pale orange ; hind wings and fringe pale silky brown ; antennas 

 annulated with black and white ; palpi orange, with the last joint white with a black tip. Taken, by Mr. 

 George Robertson, near Wanstead, Essex. Described from Mr. Bentley's cabinet. 



Species 4. — Batia lutarella — (Hiibner ? Wood, fig. 1429, and our Plate CXIV., Fig. 20) — Expands 

 6 to 7f lines ; fore wings pale brown, or tawny luteous, and totally immaculate, occasionally with a fulvous dot 

 on the disc ; fringe rather paler ; hind wings and fringe brown. Coombe Wood, in June. 



Species 5. — Batia saturella — (Stephens; Wood, fig. 1430, and our Plate CXIV., Fig. 21) — Expands 6^ 

 lines ; entirely pale ochreous brown ; wings glossy. Darenth Wood, Kent, in June, but very rare. 



