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N. Anterior wings rather narrow, slightly acute, the hinder margin subtrun- 

 cate ; the disc of sombre hue, with pale Or dark Spots ; posterior rather 

 ample : palpi moderate, acute, nearly horizontal, the terminal joint ob- 

 tuse : Zioc/^' rather short : — Scopula mZ/H.- Uresephita, ^). Hub. 



Sp. 29. sticticalis. Alis nitidis, fuscis nelulosis, anticis macula quadrata media, 

 strigaque posticajlavis. (£xp. Alar. 1 unc. 1 — 2 lin.) 



Ph. Py. sticticalis. Linne.—^co. sticticalis. ' Steph. Catal. ii. 167. No. 6837. 

 —Ma. tetragonalis. Steph. Catal. ii. 166. No. 6829. 



Wings shining fuscous ; anterior with some darker clouds, a central quadran- 

 gular pale yellow spot in the middle, a faint streak of the same towards the 

 tip of the costa, and an irregular streak on the hinder margin, also pale 

 yellow : posterior wings with a faint dusky streak, bordered with palish, 

 behind the middle, and a slender yellowish line on the hinder margin : cilia 

 all glossy brown. 



A rare .species, but widely distributed : I took a specimen in July 

 1827 at Ripley, and one previously near Dover : it has also occurred 

 near Coombe-wood, and at " Beachamwell, Norfolk."" — J. Scales j 

 Esq. 



Sp. 30. olivalis. Alis unticis fuscis albido nehulosis, macvln quadrata punciisque 

 niveis,posticis albidis lunula punctojimbriaque fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc. — 

 1 unc. 1 lin.) 



Py. olivalis. Wicn. Fer:;.— Scop, nivealis. Steph. Catal. ii. 167. No. 6836. 



Anterior wings fuscous, with some short dusky and whitish lines on the costa 

 towards the apex ; a round white dot towards the base duplicated on the 

 inner margin, a quadrate snow-white spot hi the middle, and between this 

 and the hinder margin an elongate white one, behind which is a more or less 

 distinct very much waved streak, composed of whitish lines ; and on the 

 hhider margin is a row of minute dusky dots: posterior wings white, with 

 a lunate spot towards the costa, a small central dot, and the hinder margin 

 brown ; the inner margin is sometimes brownish : on the hinder margin is 

 a row of dusky dots, as in the anterior wings : cilia whitish, with a dusky 

 line at the base. 



Caterpillar dirty-green, with two broad paler lines on the back and sides ; 

 head and legs greenish ; it feeds on the speedwell ( Veronica officinalis) : the 

 imago appears at the end of June. 



A very abundant insect, at least in the vicinity of London: found 

 also in Norfolk, Suffolk, the New Forest, Devonshire, &c. " Alder- 

 ley, Cheshire." — Rev. E. Stanley. " Newcastle." — G. Wailes, Esq. 

 " Epping." — Mr. H. Douhleday. 



