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palish cloud, in wliich are three minute black dots: costa with some short 

 pale oblique lines : posterior wings shining brown. 



Extremely rare : found, so far as I am aware, only in Epping 

 Forest, within the metropolitan district, in August : it hkewise has 

 occurred in the vicinity of Wisbeach, in Cambridgeshire, and also in 

 Norfolk. 



b. Anterior wings with one or more simple white blotches on the middle of the 

 inner ed^e : — Epinotia, p. Hiibner. 



Sp. 7. Pflugiana. Alis anticis fuscis nebulosis, J'asciis duabvs abbreviatis sub- 

 conjluentibus albidis marginis tenuioris, posticis fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 10 — 

 lllin.) 



Py. Pflugiana. Fabricius-Sp. Pflugiana. Steph. Catal. ii. 174. No. 6906. 



Anterior wings brown, slightly clouded with ash-colour and black, with some 

 fdiiit oblique abbreviated transverse geminated white streaks towards the 

 tip of the costa, and a round brown dot on the extreme tip itself: in the 

 middle of the inner margin is a broad white blotch, a little clouded, and 

 extending nearly to the middle of the disc ; behind this, near the anal angle, 

 is a similar blotch, in which are four black dots placed transversely, divided 

 from the other by a brown band, which is generally somewhat interrupted: 

 posterior wings pale shining brown. 

 Rare : found occasionally in June within the metropolitan district, 



at Darenth and Birch woods ; also at Coombe. 



Sp. 8. Strsemiana. Alis anticis rufescentefuscis, maculis diiahus albidis mar- 

 ginis tenuioris, posticis fuscis nitidis. (Exp. Alar. 8 lin.) 



Py. Strsemiana. Fabricius.— Sp. Strsemiana. Steph. Catal. ii. 174. No. 6907. 



Anterior wings reddish-brown, slightly clouded with darker shades, with an 

 irregular whitish, or ochraceous, blotch in the middle of the inner margin, 

 and a second, somewhat rounded, near the anal angle, not united to the 

 former; posterior shining brown. 

 IMore abundant by far than the foregoing species; it occurs 



towards the end of July in woods and hedges about Darenth and 



Coombe ; also in other places. " Gibside, &c." — G. Wailes^ Esq. 



Sp. 9. rusticana. Alis anticis cinereofulvis nebulosis, macula media communi 

 alba, posticis fuscis, ciliis albidis. (Exp. Alar. 8 — 9 lin.) 



Py. rusticana. Fabricius.—Sp. rusticana. Steph. Catal. ii. 174. No. 690.5. 



Anterior wings tawny-ash, slightly clouded with darker lines, the costa with 

 several short oblique black lines, with whitish spaces between; in the 

 middle of the inner margin is a rhomboid or subquadrate white blotch ; and 



