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margin is a short, somewhat conica brown streak ; the hinder margin itself 



has also a brownish edge, and the cilia are slightly tinted with gold colour: 



the posterior wings are brown. 

 Variable in colour, and in the intensity of the markings ; in some instances the 



latter are rather interrupted, and the whitish border is wanting. 

 The caterpillar feeds on the oak, whitethorn, and honeysuckle (^Lonicera Xy- 



losieum) : the imago appears at the end of June or beginning of July. 



Very common in some woods in the vicinity of London, especially 

 at Darenth ; also found in tlie neighbourhood of Hertford, and in 

 the New Forest. 



Sp. 17. Roborana. Alis anticis retusis vix caudatis, ochraceo-iestaceis, macula 

 ■magna hasi interna, alteruqiie pone medium, strigdque costali postica brunneis, 

 jMsticisfuscis. (Exp. Alar. 9- — 11 lin.) 



To. Roborana. Hubner. Lo. Roborana. Steplu Catal. W. 111. No. G9<67. 



Anterior wings retuse, scarcely caudate, ochrey-testaceous, with a large 

 distinct brown spot on their irmer margin near the base; a large blotch of 

 the same behind the middle, remote from the costa, and placed obliquely, 

 and beyond this on the costa near the apex a patch of the same, produced 

 into an attenuated streak, which reaches nearly to the middle of the hinder 

 margin ; these marks arc sometimes slightly edged with a satiny-white 

 border : cilia fuscous. 



Caterpillar feeds on the oak : the imago appears at the beginning of July. 



Slightly variable in colour and markings. 



Treitschke gives this as the male of the foregoing species, but I cannot agree 

 with him in that respect, inasmuch as both sexes of each occur, and the 

 males of this are as large as the females of the former. 



Taken occasionally in the vicinity of the metropolis, at Darenth 

 wood. 



Sp. 18. obliquana? Alis anticis retusis suhcaudatis, cinereo-fulvicaniihus, fascia 

 subrecta basi secundd m,edid obliqua maculdque costali postica obsolete fulvis, 

 posticisjuscis, apice fulvis. (Exp. Alar. 8 — 11 lin.) 



Py. obliquana. Fabricius? — Lo. obliquana. Steph. Catal. n. 171. No. 6S6S. 



Anterior wings retuse, slightly tinted, of an ashy-fulvescent tint, with an ob- 

 solete fulvous nearly straight fascia at the base, sometimes faintly edged 

 with white, a second oblique one, arising from the middle of the costa nearly 

 to the anal angle, unidentate and faintly edged with whitish, and on the 

 costa a fulvous cloud : posterior wings fuscous, with the apex and costa 

 fulvous. 



Variable in colour, being sometimes pale fulvous, with very obscure golden 

 fasciae, and the hinder wings pale brown: this appears to be the male. 



