56 IIAUSTEl.LATA. LEl'IDOPTKRA. 



Sp. 22. fuscalis. Alii fusco-cinerascentibus, lunula fusca ante strigam communetn 



repandam saturatiorem extus dilutiorem. (Exp. Alar. 10 lin. — 1 unc.) 

 Py. fuscalis. Wicn. Verz.—^la.. cineralis. Steph. Catal. ii. 166. No. 6825. 



Wings ashy-brown : anterior with a short darker lunule, behind whicli is a 

 repanded darker streak, slightly indented, and bordered exteriorly with paler 

 ash : posterior wings with a minute central dot and a repanded fuscous 

 line bordered exteriorly with pale ash, as in the anterior : cilia plain ashy- 

 brown. 



The caterpillar is whitish-green, with a brighter dorsal line and dusky lateral 

 ones : it feeds upon the golden-rod {^SoUdago virgamea) : the imago appears 

 in woody places in June. 



Not very uncommon in many places within the metropohtan 

 district, as at Birch, Darenth, and Coombe-woods, Hertford, Ripley, 

 &c. . 



Sp. 23. fimbrialis. AUs albido-cinerascentlhus maculia duabus stiiguque undulata 

 comviuni Jimhriuque aaturuiioi-ibus. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc.) 



Ma. fimbrialis. Stcph. Catal. ii. 166. No. 6826. 



Wings whitish-ash, with two spots in the middle towards the costa, preceded 

 by a very obscure incurved streak, and followed towards the hinder margin 

 by a very much waved brown streak ; hinder margins brownish-ash, with a 

 row of minute black dots on its extreme edge : posterior wings rather paler, 

 with a very faint dusky spot towards the base and a waved dusky streak 

 towards the hinder margin, the latter clouded with brownish-ash : cilia all 

 ashy-brown. 



Taken at Darenth-wood and near Dover, in June. 



K. Anterior wings rather broad, short, rounded on the hinder margin, with 



stigmatiform central spots; pale, with transverse streaks; antenna; and 



bodij rather short: — Mesographe, p. Hilb. 



a. Palpi long, horizontal, acute. 



Sp.2t. iiistitialis. AUs aJbidis, obsolete strigatis, anticis stigmatiferisj jiosticis 

 angulo apicalifulginoso. (Exp. Alar. 10 lin. — 1 unc.) 



Py. institialis. Hilbner Verz.—Ma. lutealis. Ste[)h. Catal. ii. 166. No. 6828. 



Wings whitish: anterior with obsolete lutescent streaks and a longitudinal 

 line of the same near the costa ; in the middle are two stigmatiform spots, 

 with luteous edges ; on the apex of the costa is an oblique lutescent cloud, 

 and a fine line of the same on the hinder marghi ; cilia whitish : posterior 

 wings with a very obscure lutescent streak, a brownish spot in the middle, 

 and a large smoky cloud on the apical angle of the hhidcr margin; the ex- 



