134 HAUSTKLLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



Streaks, with a brown dot between each pair, and near the anal angle is a 

 brown spot; the fascia are obsoletely margined with silver; cilia silvery, 

 with a dusky dot towards the hinder angle: postcrinr wii^s fuscous. 



Rather scarce ; found occasionally in June at Eirch and Darenth 

 woods ; also in Norfolk and the New Forest. " Monkswood." — 

 C. C. Bahington, Esq. 



Sp. 8. gramineana. Alis anticis ferrugineo-fuscis, fascia ante medium subargented, 

 apice pallido fnaculis tribus griseo-j'uscis. (Exp. Alar. 7 lin.) 



Or. gramineana. Curtis, v. v'lii. fo. 364. 



" Head, thorax, and superior (anterior) wings ferruginous-brown; the latter 

 with seven or eight pair of whitish spots on the costa, with a somewhat silvery 

 sinuated fascia, leaving a dark space at the base, apical portion of the same 

 pale colour, having a dark and very sinuated fascia across the middle, the 

 apex with three triangular spots on the costa, and an oblique lobe-shaped 

 mark, rising from the posterior margin, and another near that angle, ferru- 

 ginous-brown : inferior (posterior) wings brown." — Curtis, I. c. 



Taken near Edinburgh in July. " On grassy slopes ascending 

 Arthur''s Seat." — Curtis, I. c. 



B. Anterior wi}igs with an irregular central fascia, the costa with simple spots: 



— Phiaris, Hilbner. 



Sp. 9. micana. Alis aiiticis cervinis, fusco irroratis, fasciis sesquitertiis inter- 

 media intiis bifida punctoque medio urgenteo-albis, casta alba fusco punctata. 

 (Exp. Alar. 6—7 lin.) 



To, micana. Hubner? — Or. micana. Steph. Catul. ii. 182. No. 7009. 



Anterior wings of an olive-green, sprinkled with minute black dots, with a 

 silvery-white fascia before the middle and a second behind, the latter bifid 

 withhi; towards the apex is an irregular patch of the same colour, and on 

 the middle of the disc a silvery-white spot; costa white, spotted with 

 brown : posterior wings brownish, with whitish cilia. 



Found rarely near London, but not uncommon in the east of 

 Norfolk, and also near Beachamwell in Suffolk, towards the end of 

 June. 



C. Anterior ivings with the central fascia placed rather obliquely, the costa 



with geminated spots: — Eudemis, Hiibncr. 



Sp. 10. cespitana. Alis anticis brunneo-fuscis seu sordiddferi-ugineix, fasciis 

 duabus cintreis niiidulis rivulosis, postica intiis bifvrcata, costa argenteo strigu- 

 lata. (Exp. Alar. 6^ lin.) 



To. cespitana. H'ubner. To. pi. 39- f '2i4. 



Anterior wings fuscous-brown or dull ferruginous, with a slightly curved ashy 



