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within, and a third, abbreviated, but frequently carried on a? an interrupted 

 one near the apex to the hinder margin : posterior wings whitish-brown. 

 The markings vary considerably, and are sometimes brol^en into small 

 blotches instead of being in fasciae. 



Found occasionally within the metropolitan distinct, about the 

 middle of June, and also in the New Forest and in Devonshire. 



Sp. 6. niterjectana. Alis anticis albido-cinereis, fasciix dunbus integrisfnscis, 

 posticis fuscescentibus. (Exp. Alar. 9 — 9^ lin.) 



To. interjectana. Haworth. — Cn. interjectana. Steph. Catal. ii. 181. N'o. 6999. 



Anterior wings ashy- white, thickly sprinkled with black dots, with an acutely 

 un-angulated, slightly oblique, brown fascia at the base, and a second 

 reaching from the middle of th(! costa to the hinder angle, not waved 

 within ; the rest of the wing to the apex dark ashy, with faint darker 

 clouds : posterior wings pale brownish-ash. 



Not uncommon in the vicinity of I^ondon in June ; taken also in 

 other parts of the country. 



Sp. 7. Logiana. Alls anficis albido-cinereis, fasciis tribus flcxuosis fusco nebii" 

 h.iis, anfcriore ahbreviatd, posticis cinereis. (Exp. Alar. 6 — 9 lin.) 



Ph. To. Logiana. Linne?—Cn. Logiana. Steph. Catal ii. 181. N'o. 7000. 



Anterior whigs whitish-ash, thickly sprinkled with rather large fuscous dots, 

 M'ith three flexuous ashy-brown fascise with darker spots, of which the first 

 is un-angulated and shortened near the base, the second very much sinuated 

 in the middle, and the third on the hinder margin : posterior wings whitish- 

 brown. 



Extremely variable : the ground colour of the anterior wings being whitish, 

 ashy, or darker brown, dusky or blackish ; with the fuscous dots more or 

 less distinct, or totally wanting; the fasciae sometimes interrupted, at others 

 very distinct or nearly obliterated; and in old examples the wings are 

 sometimes of a rosy tint and immaculate. 



Extremely abundant, in June, throughout the metropolitan dis- 

 trict ; also found in the New Forest, Norfolk, Scotland, &c. " Cra- 

 momV'—Rev. W. Little. 



Sp. 8. obsoletana. Alis anticis fuscis, fere immaculatis, obsoletissimc trifasciatis, 

 fascia antica abbreviatd. (Exp, Alar. 8 — 9 lin.) 



Cn. obsoletana. Steph. Catal. ii. 181. No. 6997. 



Anterior wings somewhat rounded at the apex, fuscous, nearly immaculate, 

 with three very obsolete fascia, of which the basal one, which is curved, is 

 abbreviated, the second oblique and flexuous, the third short and faintly 



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