1868.] 



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juncicolores, nervulis paulo nigricantihus, serie transversa puncttdorum 

 nigricantium, -fimbria concolori, absque punctis : posticcB supra sub- 

 concolores, subtus pallidiores ; omnes subtus immaculafee, corpore concolori, 

 piloso. 



Size of paludicola. All tbo insect is of the colour of imsh or dry reed. Body 

 hairy, uniform, and without spots. Anterior wings oblong, rounded at Jihe hinder 

 margin ; the only markings are a series of little blackish-grey dots on the nervures in 

 the place of the olbowed-line, a dot at the apex of the cellule, and sometimes 

 another on the sub-median vein near the base ; sometimes the nervures are more 

 or loss powdered with grey ; fringe concolorous, without dots : inferior wings almost 

 concolorous above, but paler beneath, without markings. Antennae with robust, 

 but small, lamina?. I have only seen the male. 



N.B. — It is scarcely possible that this can be Leucania unica, 

 Walker, p. 112, in which the anterior wings are without spots, and the 

 abdomen much paler than the thorax. 



Family hi. APAMID^. 

 Grenus Alysia, Guenee, nov. gen. 



Antennas of the ^ long, crenulated, each crenulation carrying a 

 tuft of hairs at the tip, and a longer one in the middle ; those of the 

 $ cylindrical, pubescent, each joint carrying two longer hairs. Palpi 

 thick, ascending, robust, hairy ; the third joint very distinct, scaly. 

 Haustellum small, robust. Thorax broad, somewhat depressed, quadrate, 

 strongly hairy, but not bristly ; breast very hairy. Abdomen of the 

 ^ long, smooth, silky, not crested, laterally hairy, not conical ; that of 

 the ? conical, thick, and hairy. Legs robust ; the tarsi with spines. 

 "Wings oblong, thick ; the superior slightly prolonged at the apex ; the 

 inferior sinuated at the hinder margin. 



A genus of a very ambiguous aspect, and oscillating between the 

 LeucanidcB, ApamidcB, and Noctuidce. At first sight it resembles Xylo- 

 pliasia, but the non-crested abdomen, unicolorous palpi, &c., will not 

 permit its being united to that genus. Not knowing the earlier states, 

 and being able to examine only one imperfect female, I place it pro- 

 visionally after Lu^perina ; but it will not be astonishing if, hereafter, it 

 shall be transferred to another position in the Apamidce^ or even in the 

 Leucanida. I direct attention to the structure of the male antennae. 



Alysia specifica, Guenee, n. s. 

 AlcB anticce grisece, fimbria extima alba spatio medio levissime rubri- 

 cante, macula reniformi vice conspicua pallidiore, punctis transversis mi- 

 nutis nigricantibus : posticce pallidiores, subtus fere albidce, lunula media 

 obscuriore : coi'pus griseum, immaculatum. 



