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jroad, entire : the superior pair acute at the apex, the lines slightly 
sketched : inferior pair with scarcely distinct lines, the nervures not 
junctated : neuration of Scotosia. 
I establish this new genus on a small New Ze-aland species, which 
s not larger than an Eupithecia, but which has the aspect of a Scotosia, 
dthough the pectinated antennae and entire wings distinguish it at first 
iight. 
Helastia eupitheciaeia, Guenee, n. s. 
Statura Eupithecice impuratce. Alcd cano-grisecE, flvibria concolori : 
mticcB fasciis trihus incompletis denticulatis punctog^ue cellulari nigris : 
>ostic(B coneolores lineolis vix distinctis : suhtus anticce nigricantes, postic(B 
■IhidcB lineis duahus denticulatis punctoque nigris. 
Size of Ewpitliecia, impurata. Superior wings greyisli- white, with an olivaceous 
inge ; three parallel sinuated and toothed blackish bands, rather well marked as 
ir as the middle of the wing, but becoming afterwards indistinct ; the third is the 
est marked and the most sinuated ; the sub-terminal is only indicated by slight 
■roups of atoms ; the cellular dot very small ; fringe concolorous, preceded by in- 
istinct geminated dots : inferior wings paler and more whitish, above with only 
races of greyish lines, but beneath there are two sinuated and toothed median 
nes, and a cellular dot, rather well marked, on a pale, sometimes white, ground 
olour, while this side of the superior wings is suffused with blackish-grey. Body 
oncolorous ; abdomen with ill-defined, blackish, geminated dots. 
I have already described the antennae of the (J j the only $ I possess has lost 
hem ; it resembles the <? . 
Chateaudun, 1868. 
fOTES ON THE GENUS ACIDALIA, WITH DESCRIPTION OP THE LARVA 
OF A. HOLOSERICATA* &c. 
BT EEV. J. HELLINS, M.A. 
To Mr. A. E. Hudd, of Clifton, I am indebted for the opportunity 
if watching the earlier stages of another Acidalia, viz., holosericata ; 
,nd his kindness is the more thankworthy, in that he supplied me with 
iggs three years in succession, until I could succeed in breeding the 
Qoths. Whilst engaged with this species, I took in hand some others, 
isetata, scutulata, and interjectaria (as we must now call what used to 
»ass in this locality for osseata), and made notes of their various stages ; 
,l30 imitaria and immutata, but having described these before, I now go 
10 further with tliem than the egg. 
• It does not please one's sense of the fitness of things to see the two forms of the same word, 
lolosericata and ^uhsericeata, standing so close to one another in our lists, but I have not thought 
lyseif at liberty to insert the e in the former after receiving the following information from Mr. 
toubleday: — "I suppose Holosericata was the name given to this species by Duponchel, but I think 
it was probably written so in mistake for Holosericeata ; the synonvmes stand thus in Dr. Staudinger's 
Catalogue : ' No. 78, Holosericata Dup. iv., p. 109, pi. 59, 7. 
Gn. I. 408, Holosericearia H, S. 80—81.' 
This is all the information I can give you on the subject."— J. H. 
