1 88 H AUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Anterior wings bright ochreous-yellow, or straw-coloured, with darker and 

 lighter shades, with a rather distinct oblique dusky fascia, a little behind 

 the middle, not touching the costa, but extending, though interruptedly, 

 to the inner margin ; towards the apex is another but fainter dusky fascia; 

 the hinder margm is faintly reticulated with rusty-fuscous, and has a dark 

 edge, and the costa is spotted with blackish ; cilia pale yellow : posterior 

 wings fuscous, with yellowish cilia, or pale cinereous, with lighter cilia. 



Rather variable in tint and in the intensity of its markings. 



Found not uncommonly in the grassy slopes between the meadows 

 and corn-fields on the hills about Dover, in July and the beginning 

 of August, where I first discovered it in 1818. 



+Sp. 2. Dubrisana. Alis anticix sulphureis, fascia media subinterruptaobliqua, 

 alteraque posticafuscis. (Exp. Alar. 4 — 6 lin.) 



Co. Dubrisana. Curtis, fo. 491. 



"■ Palpi, head, and thorax griseous ; abdomen silky-grey ; superior (anterior) 

 wings pale sulphur, mottled with shining white and brownish marks, with 

 a somewhat interrupted oblique brown fascia across the middle, and another 

 beyond it; inferior (posterior) wings white, more or less freckled with 

 fuscous towards the apex." — Curtis, I. c. 



Not found, I believe, near London : it has been taken in the 

 " Middle of August, top of cliffs, near Dover." — Curtis, I. c. 



+Sp. 3. marmoratana. Alis anticis sulphureisfusco irroratis maculisque albidis, 



fasciis duahusfuscis. (Exp. Alar. 7 lin.) 

 Co. marmoratana. Curtis, fo. 491. 



"Antennae and palpi blackish, the latter white inside: head, thorax, and 

 abdomen griseous, the latter white at the apex ; superior (anterior) wings 

 pale sulphur, freckled with brown, and variegated with shining white spots 

 and lines, leaving two indistinct oblique fuscous bands ; costa spotted with 

 brown: inferior (posterior) wings fuscous, slightly freckled with white: 

 cilia white." — Curtis, I. c. 



Also apparently a local species : it has occurred in the " jNliddle 

 of August, near Dover.'' — Curfls, I. c. 



Sp. 4. straminea. Alis aiUicis pallide stramineis, fasciold media obliqua abbre- 



viata marginis tenuiuris pallidefulva. (Exp. Alar. 7 — 8 lin.) 

 To. straminea. Haworth. — Lo. straminea. Steph. Catul. ii. 192. No. 714.5. 



Anterior wings pale straw-colour, with a few dusky fulvous spots on the 

 costa ; an abbreviated dull tawny streak before the middle of the inner 

 margin, extending nearly to the middle of the disc obliquely towards the 

 costa ; on the extreme hinder margin is a faint tawny line : posterior wings 

 whitish, with long silky-white cilia. 



