234 BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 2. — Oncocera carnella — (Linnaeus, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1478 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 36) — 

 Expands 12 or 14 lines ; fore wings rosy-red, sometimes suffused with brown, with the inner margin broadly- 

 pale yellow, or buff; hind wings brown. Near London, Dover, Hertford, &c. ; July. 



Species 3. — Oncocera sanguinella '' — (Hiibner, &c. ; "Wood, fig. 1479 ; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 37) — 



Expands 12 to 15 lines ; fore wings rosy, or blood-red, sometimes suffused with brown ; costa pale whitish, and 



inner margin pale yellow ; hind wings brown. Dover, &c., in July and August : probably a variety of the 



preceding. 



■• Synonyme. — Phal. Tinea Carnella, Donovan v., pi. 153, f. 5. 



ARAXES, Stephens. 

 These insects differ from the preceding by having the antennje simple in both sexes ; the labial palpi are 

 also much longer than the head, and horizontally porrected, with the terminal joint attenuated and scarcely 

 deflexed ; the fore wings are elongate, sublanceolate, rounded on the apical margin, convoluted in repose, and 

 generally longitudinally divided in their colours, the costa being palest. 



Species 1. — Araxes miniosella — (Gerraar, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1482; and our Plate CXV., Fig. 38) — 

 Expands 9 to 10 lines ; fore wings, with the costa broadly whitish ; the disc rosy, shaded to ochreous on the 

 inner margin ; hind wings ashy-gray, with a reddish tinge. Taken on the coasts of Lancashire, Cumberland, &c., 

 in June. 



Species 2. — Araxes lotella — (Hiibner? Wood, fig. 1481, and our Plate CXV., Fig. 39) — Expands 

 10 lines; fore wings ochraceous, powdered with testaceous; hind wings ashy-gray, with white fringe : probably 

 a variety of the former. Coast of Lancashire, in June. 



Species 3. — Araxes ocellea — (Haworth, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1480, and our Plate CXV., Fig. 40) — 

 Expands \\\ lines; fore wings brownish, with a nearly obsolete geminated, yellowish striga in the middle, 

 and two or three very short ones at the apex of the costa ; apical margin, towards the anal angle, with a row of 

 six ocellated spots with black pupils ; hind wings brown, with white fringe. A single specimen, taken near 

 London, is in Mr. Stephens's collection, obtained from that of Mr. Haworth. 



Species 4. — Araxes ahenella"^ — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1483, and our Plate CXV., Fig. 41) — 

 Expands 9 to 14 lines ; fore wings obscure brown, with a very indistinct purplish-brown straight striga before, 

 and another, flexuous, towards the costa, beyond the middle ; hind wings paler brown. Darenth Wood, Hert- 

 ford, &c., in June. 



' Synonymes. — Crambus obscuratus, Haworth. 

 Palparia tetriXf Haworth. 



PRIONAPTERYX, Stephens. 

 The fore wings of this genus are elongate-triangular, with three or four deep serratures towards the extremity 

 of the costa, and the apical margin deeply emarginate ; the labial palpi are rather long, stout, and densely 

 squamose, porrected like a beak ; the antennae of the males are slightly pectinated beneath, and the body is 

 rather long and slender, and slightly tufted at the extremity in the males. 



