I'VKALIU.E. MAKGARITIA. S'J 



treme edge with a slightly interrupted fine dusky lutescent line: cilia ashy- 

 white. 



Not a very abundant species, but cannot be esteemed rare: it fre- 

 quents hedges, &c. towards the end of June, and has been taken at 

 Hertford, Ripley, Coombe, Darcnth, and Birch-woods, and in Cam- 

 bridgeshire. " Bath." — Rev. J. Lackey. " Newcastle, &c." — 

 G. IVailes, Ksq. 



b. Palpi short, ascending, terminal joint obvious, acute. 



Sp. 25. stramentalis. Alis anticis stramineis, strigis quatuor venisque piceo- 

 Juscis, posticis albidis margine postico strigaque arcuatd fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 

 1 unc.) 



Py. stramentalis. Hitbnir Verz. — Ma. elutalis. Steph. Cutal. ii. 167. 

 No. 6833. 



Anterior wings pale straw colour, with dusky atoms and faint pitchy-brown 

 lines on the nervures, and three nearly equidistant waved streaks of the 

 same colour, and a slender one on the hinder margin ; between which and 

 the third is an irregular clouded fascia, and annexed to the second is a cor- 

 date stigma, to which a reniform one is connected on the outer edge: cilia 

 ashy : posterior wings whitish, with the hinder margins, and an abbreviated 

 curved streak on the anal angle pitchy-brown : cilia white, with a dusky 

 cloud towards the anal angle. 



Rare near London : it occurs in marshy places in July : it appears 

 to be more abundant in Norfolk ; in the neighbourhood of Halvergate 

 the late Mr. Haworth once found it in profusion. 



L. Anterior wi?igs broad, obtuse, hinder margin rounded, dusky, disc not 



transversely streaked ; posterior ovate-triangular, rounded behind : palpi 



very short, acute or subclavate : iot/?/ moderate : — Evergestis, Hub. 



Sp. 26. margaritalis. Alis anticis pallide sulphureis, apice fusco ferrugineo, 



posticis albidis, fascia externa dilute ferruginea. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc. 



3—4 lin.) 



Py. margaritalis. Wien. Tfr^.— Ma. margaritalis. Steph. Catal. ii. 167. 



No. 6832. 

 Anterior wings pale sulphur, with minute ferruginous atoms, and a large 

 rusty-brown patch, with a darker oblique streak at the apex, on the hinder 

 margin : cilia also dark rusty-brown : posterior wings whitish, with the 

 hinder margin pale dull rusty-brown: cilia the same, but whitish towards 

 the anal angle. 

 Scarce, or rather probably very local; it has been taken near 



