80 HAUSTEI.I.ATA. — I.KPIDOPTKR A. 



Py. Grotiana. Fabrkius — Lo. Grotiana. StejJi. CaiaLn. 171. No. 6874. 



Anterior wings tawny-testaceous, very delicately streaked with fine red lines, 

 with a broad brown oblique fascia a little beyond the middle, extending to 

 the anal angle, and branching off with a single twig to the apex of the 

 costa, forming a coarse Roman v ; posterior wings brown. 



Slightly variable in size, and a little in colour. 



Rare near London; taken occasionally at the end of June in 

 Darenth wood : also found in the New Forest. 



Sp. 25. ochreana. Alis ayiticis aureo-fiavis, ferrugineo'sirigulatis, fascia ferrii- 

 ginea posticd ad contain late bifida. (Exp. Alar. 7^ lin.) 



To. ochreana. Hubner — Lo. Grotiana, van? — Sfeph. Catal. ii. 171. No. 6874'. 



Anterior wings of a golden-yellow, finely streaked with rust-coloured lines ; 

 with a broad rusty band rather beyond the middle, extending to the anal 

 angle, and branching off, rather indistinctly, to the apex of the costa : pos- 

 terior wings dull ashy-brown. 



Much rarer than the preceding : it has occurred towards the end 

 of June near London. 



d. Anterior wings narrow, sublinear, icith a hijid fascia at the apex ; posterior 

 dark: — Va^ovi^ia., j). Hiibner. 



Sp. 26. cruclana. Alis anticis griseo-ci nereis aut canis, fascia obliqua apiceqxie 



castaneis, argenteo submarginatis. (Exp. Alar. 6 — 7 lin.) 

 Ph. To. cruciana. Linne. — Lo. cruciana. Steph. Catal. ii. 171. No. 6876. — 



Var. Lo. cinerana. Steph. Catal. ii. 171. No. 6877. 

 Anterior wings narrow, griseous-ash, or hoary, with an indistinct rusty blotch 



at the base of the inner margin, an oblique chesnut band behind the middle, 



and a spot of the same at the apex, the two latter more or less distinctly 



edged with a faint silvery line : cilia purplish, with white tips : posterior 



wings brown. 

 Rather variable in colour, and the form of the crucial mark slightly varies, 



being sometimes nearly continuous, at others subinterrupted : its colour is 



occasionally ferruginous. 

 This pretty species departs considerably in habit from the rest of the genus, 



and would probably associate better with Anchylopera retusana. Steph. 



Catal. ii. 177. No. 6950. 



Not very 'uncommon in the woods in the vicinity of the metropolis 

 in the middle of June : I have met with it at Coombe, Darenth, 

 and Birch woods ; Hertford, Ripley, and Monkswood, Hunts. 



