58 HAUSTELLATA.— LEPIDOPTERA. 



Bristol ; also in Bedfordshire, near Bedford, and in Berkshire in 

 June. " Beachamwell, Norfolk."—/. Scales, Esq. 



Sp. 27. sericealis. AMs anticis stramineo-Jlavis macula media ustulata mari>;i- 

 neqiie externa subferrugineo, posticis cinerascentibus. (Exp. Alar. 9—10 lin.) 



Py. sericealis. Wien. Verz.—Vy. Leeana. Donovan, x. pi. 357. /. 1.— 

 Ma. sericealis. Sieph. Catal. n. 167. ]So. 6831. 



Anterior wings deep straw-yellow, with a rusty spot behind the middle 

 towards the costa, in which are placed transversely two deep violaceous 

 dots ; between this and the hinder margin is an obscure repanded dusky 

 line, and the hinder margin itself is of a dull ustulated ferruginous; some- 

 times with a row of very minute whitish dots : on the costa are one or two 

 minute rusty dots : the posterior wings are ashy or brownish, pale at the 

 base, ^with a faint dusky streak behind the middle : cilia all dusky ferrugi- 

 nous. The anterior wings are sometimes considerably suffused with dusky- 

 ferruginous. 



Caterpillar green, with two white dorsal stripes and some black hairs; it feeds 

 on grasses : the imago appears in July in hedges and shrubby places. 



Not uncommon in woods and copses within the metropolitan dis- 

 trict ; found also in the New Forest and in Devonshire. 



M. Anterior wings rather narrow, acute, subtruncate, plain, not transversely 



streaked ; posterior ample, ovate-triangular, discolorous : palpi shortish, 



slender, ascending, acute; maxillae short: — Uresephita, jo. Hub. 



Sp. 28. alpinalis. Alis anticis obscure cinereis, atomis saturatioribus, maculaque 

 pone medium pallida, posticis albidis, fimbria cinered. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc 

 1 lin.) 



Py. alpinalis. Wien. Verz.—'Mdi. uliginosalis. Steph. Catal. ii. 106. No. 6827. 



Head, thorax, and anterior wings dull ashy, with minute darker atoms, and a 

 pale spot behind the middle, towards the costa, seemingly raised : cilia 

 pale : posterior wings paler or whitish, with an ashy border on the hinder 

 margin : cilia w^hitish. 



I have a single specimen of the male of this species, which I ob- 

 tained from Mr. Dale ; it was captured in Scotland, where several 

 other examples occurred in July 1827, on the summit of Ben Lawers 

 and Craig-challoch. 



