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B. Anterior wings rounded behind, the disc pale, usually with a flexuous darker 

 character in the middle: — Agonopteryx, H'ubner. 



Sp. 13. ocellana. Alis anticis griseis, litura media S formi sanguined, puncio 



albido, posticis albis. (£xp. Alar. 9^ lin.) 

 Py. ocellana. Fabricius. — Di. ocellana. Steph. Catal. ii. 194. No. 7169. 



Anterior wings pale griseous, with a flexuous streak, resembling the letter S, 

 in the middle, towards the costa, of a bright blood-red, terminating in a 

 white dot, and having two minute black ones at its origin : on the hinder 

 margin is a row of blackish dots, and the costa is faintly marked with 

 fuscous ; at the base within is a curved brownish streak : posterior wings 

 whitish, with the cilia paler. 



Not very common ; found in July and August in woods and hedges 

 witliin the metropolitan district, and also in Suffolk and in the New 

 Forest. " Raehills.^'— i?eu. W. Little. 



Sp. 14. applana. Alis anticis fusco-rufis atomis fuscis, punctis duobus nigris, 



lineoldque e maculis albis. (Exp. Alar. 8 — 10 lin.) 

 Py. applana. Fabricius. — Tie. applana. Steph. Catal. ii. 193. No. 7166. 



Anterior wings red-brown, sprinkled with darker atoms, and slightly clouded, 

 with two black dots placed obliquely on the disc before the middle, and two 

 or three white ones placed longitudinally behind the first pair, and bordered 

 with black : posterior wings whitish-ash. 



Variable in colour, and slightly in markings, but the black and white dots 

 always conspicuous, though occasionally one or other of them is wanting : 

 the base of the anterior wings is frequently pale, this tint forming a kind of 

 fascia which extends to the inner margin. 



Caterpillar feeds on the carrot, hemlock, &c. : the imago appears towards the 

 end of August. 



Common all the year, in gardens, hedges, &c. throughout the me- 

 tropolitan district ; also in the New Forest, Devonshire, near Dover, 

 in Norfolk, Suffolk, &c. " Cramond, common."'' — Rev. W. Little. 



Sp. 15. curvipunctosa. Alis anticis griseis, fusco subatomosis, lineola sinuata, 

 media curvata, subinde interruptii, nigra. (Exp. Alar. 7 — 8 lin.) 



De. curvipunctosa. Haworth. — Steph. Catal. ii. 194. iVb. 7167. 



Anterior wings griseous, with remote brown atoms, and a minute curved black 

 streak in the middle, which is sometimes interrupted ; the costa with some 

 brown dots, occasionally united in small blotches, or very obsolete : head, 

 thorax, and base of the anterior wings at times pale ; or the anterior wings 

 entirely purplish-brown, with a minute, curved, deep black line ; posterior 

 wings pale ashy-brown, with whitish cilia. 



Kather scarce : taken in Au<;ust near London. 



