226 BRITISH MOTHS 



SENTA, Stephens. MELIA and MELIANA, Curtis. 

 The labial palpi of the genus, which is closely allied to the preceding, have the second joint longer than the 

 terminal one ; they are bent upwards, and only slightly visible from above ; the head is tufted in front ; the 

 fore wings elongate, lanceolate, and somewhat acute or obtuse at the tip ; the body rather long and stoutish, 

 with the tip acute, in the females. 



Species 1. — Senta flajimea — (Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 201 ; Wood, fig. 1438 ; and our Plate CXIV., 

 Fig. 29) — Expands (according to Mr. Curtis's figure) 20 lines ; fore wings somewhat acute at the tip, pale 

 buff, with a brown flame-like space along the centre, narrowed at the base, above which is a short, narrow, 

 ochraceous stripe, five or six minute spots forming a subapical curved line, and the margin with seven minute 

 black dots, the inner margin with dark irrorations ; hind wings paler. A single specimen is said to have been 

 taken near Lewisham, in July. 



Species 2. — Senta sericea — (Curtis ; Wood, fig. 1439 ; and our Plate CXIV., Fig. 30, 31) — Fore wings 

 obtuse at the tip. " This insect has a silky appearance ; the thorax and superior wings are dull ochreous, with 

 a carneous tinge, minutely freckled with fuscous, and a row of dots at the posterior margin, of the same 

 colour ; the body is paler, and the inferior wings almost white ; it is not so large as M. flammea. I once took a 

 • specimen in a garden in Suffolk, flying late at night, at the end of June, and Mr. Dale took a moth on the 29th 

 of June, at Whittlesearaere, which 1 think is the same species." — Curtis. 



EUDOREA, Curtis. SCOPARIA, Haworth. 

 The labial palpi are longer than the head, robust and drooping, with the terminal joint very short and conical; 

 the maxillary palpi are also distinct and porrected horizontally ; the body is rather long, and moderately slender; 

 the fore wings slightly deflexed when at rest, forming a triangle ; the anterior long aud narrow, with the apical 

 margin entire, and rather rounded, generally of pale tints freckled with darker markings, having generally two 

 pale transverse waved streaks, between which are certain dark markings like letters. 



Species 1. — Eudorea Portlandica — (Dale MSS. ; and our Plate CXIV., fig. 32) — Expands 8 lines; 

 fore wings bone-white, with the base dusky, and an irregular, slightly curved brownish black fascia (thickest in 

 the middle) before the middle of the wings ; rather beyond the middle is a smallish, irregular, dark eye-shaped 

 mark, followed by a slender, abbreviated dusky streak from the costa ; apical margin with a row of dark dots, 

 and a larger dark patch in the middle ; fringe white, varied with black interrupted lines. Taken by Mr. Dale, 

 in the Isle of Portland. Described from Mr. Bentley's Cabinet. 



Species 2. — Eudorea Cembrella — (Linuceus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1440; and our Plate CXIV., Fig. 32) 

 — Expands 12 or 13 lines ; fore wings ashy, with two obsolete brown strigse arising from the costa, the first 

 straight, and pale within, but dusky without, and the second is short and brown, and placed beyond the middle, 

 with a mark like a brown Greek letter chi, between them ; apical margin clouded with brownish. Taken on 

 the trunks of fir-trees, but not common. 



Species 3. — Eudorea subfusca— (Haworth, &c.; Wood, fig. 1441 ; and our Plate CXIV., Fig. 33) — 

 Expands 10 to 12 lines; fore wings pale brown, finely irrorated with dusky scales, with two almost obsolete 

 paler streaks, the outer one curved, and bordered inwardly with brown, with a verj' slightly defined Greek chi 

 between them ; hind wings paler brown : probably a suffused variety of the former. 



