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and sometimes a dark angulated cloud across the middle of the whigs : cilia 

 blackj with dusky clouds : posterior wings black or brown, immaculate. 

 It is supposed this may be a variety of the foregoing insect ; but its immaculate 

 posterior wings, differently coloured fringes, &c , appear to warrant its se- 

 paration. 



Rare ; found in March and June in the vicinity of London, and 

 also in Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and the New Forest. 



B. Palpi densely clothed with elongate fascicles of hair-like scales. 



Sp. 4. Myllerana. Alls anticis atro cinereoqiie variis cupreo punctatis, casta tna- 

 culis quatuor albis, posticis fuscis striga abbreviaid alba. (Exp. Alar. 5 lin.) 



Py. Myllerana. Fabricius.—Sl Myllerana. Steph. Catal. ii. 161. No. 6784. 

 Curtis, vii. pi. 320. 



Anterior wings black, with some ashy clouds; the costa with four linear 

 white spots placed obliquely, and a dot of the same towards the apex ; on 

 the disc are two other white dots and a smaller one near the base ; there are 

 also several metallic spots on the disc, of a coppery or tarnished silvery hue, 

 and a broken irregular streak of the same near the hinder margin ; cilia 

 brown at the base, white at the apex, with the apex and anal angle dusky: 

 posterior wings fuscous, with a short white line near the hinder margin, and 

 some dots of the same towards the apex ; cilia ashy, with a brown streak at 

 the base. 



Not very abundant, but local ; found in tolerable plenty in Dor- 

 setshire and Devonshire, on nettles, fern, sweet gale, &;c. ; also taken 

 at Birch Wood and near London. 



Sp. 5. punctosa. Alis anticis fuscescentibus subcuneatis, apice oblique truncatis, 

 punctis minutissiniis paucis cupreis, posticis striga abbreviatd alba. (Exp. 

 Alar. 5 lin.) 



An. punctosa. Haworth. — Si. pvmctosa. Steph. Catal. ii. 161. No. 6785. 



Anterior wings brownish, and somewhat wedge-shaped, with the hinder 

 margin obliquely truncate, the costa with three whitish spots, and the disc 

 with a few minute tarnished silvery dots ; cilia white at the apex, with the 

 extreme apex and anal angle dusky : posterior wings ashy-brown, with a 

 faint whitish abbreviated streak. 



The wings in this insect are evidently narrower and more acute than in the 

 foregoing, and the metallic markings are more obscure ; otherwise it might 

 be taken for a mere variety. 



Less abundant than the foregoing insect; found by the late 

 Mr. Haworth in Ashdown Forest; and also taken in Dorsetshire. 



