92 HAUSTELLATA. I-KPIDOrTIiR A. 



Wings brown, anterior clouded with dusky-black, the base darkest ; the inner 

 margin with two whitish blotches, and on the costa a very short one, all of 

 which are clouded with ash-colour; and the costa itself bears some very 

 short oblique lines : posterior wings dull brown. 



More abundant than the foregoing insect within the metropolitan 

 district, at the end of June and beginning of July, frequenting 

 hedges, woods, &c. 



b. Anterior wings narrow, the basal fascia angulated: — Notocelia, p. 



H'dbner. 



Sp. 5. comitana. Alls anticis albidis aut fusco-cinereis nigro strigulatis, fascia 

 baseos, margine postico maculaque analifuscis. (Exp. Alar. 6 — 7^ lin.) 



To. comitana. Hubner. Sp. comitana. Steph. Catal. ii. 174. Ao. 6914. 



Anterior wings whitish or cream colour, finely streaked throughout with waved 

 dusky or lead-coloured lines, with a broad fascia at the base, a triangular 

 patch at the tip of the inner margin, and the hinder margin itself fuscous ; 

 near the latter is a transverse row of minute black dots, varying from three 

 to five, placed in an irregular ovate lead-coloured ring : posterior brownish. 



Extremely variable in the tint of the anterior wings ; the ground-colour behig 

 sometimes pure white, at others cream-colour, or pale ash, occasionally 

 dusky-ash or fuscous, or even blackish ; but in all the varieties the disc is 

 minutely streaked with irregularly waved dusky or black lines ; and in some 

 instances there is an abbreviated fascia in the middle of the costa. 



The caterpillar feeds on the Hornbeam : the imago appears towards the middle 

 of June. 



Extremely abundant in the vicinity of the metropolis, and not un- 

 common in other parts of the country, frequenting hedges and 

 woods. 



B. Anterior wings rather broad, with the base and costa black or dark- 

 coloured : having one or more distinct white blotches on the middle of 

 the inner margin. 



a. Anterior wings with a large curved white blotch on the middle of the inner 

 margin : — Epiblema, p. Hubner. 



Sp. 6. foenella. Alis anticis obscure brunneo-fuscis, postice cinereis, arcu com- 

 muni tibialiformi albo. (Exp. Alar. 9 — 13 lin.) 



Ph. Ti. foenella. Linnc. — Ph. To. interrogationana. Donov. ii. pL 65. f. 1. — 

 Sp. foenella. Steph. Catal. ii. 174. No. 6904. 



Anterior wings dull fuscous-brown, changing to chiereous behind the middle, 

 on the inner margin is an arched white blotch, resembling the tibia, which 

 is attenuated towards the hinder margin, and terminates a little before 

 reaching the anal angle ; on the liinilir margin near the latter is a rounded 



