206 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Ph. Ti. Listerella. Linne.— An. Listerella. Steph. CataL ii. 195. No. 7184. 



Anterior wings pale fuscous, with two or three minute, evanescent, darker 

 dots in the middle, and a faint row of dusky ones on the hinder margin : 

 posterior wings immaculate : anterior legs and antennae faintly annulated 

 with white. 



The anterior wings are occasionally immaculate. 



Taken in gardens within the metropolitan district : not common. 



Sp. 5. nebulea. Alls anticis griseo-fuscis, nigra cinereoque nebulosis, posticis 

 cinereis. (Exp. Alar. 7§ lin.) 



Re. nebulea. Haivorth. — An. nebulea. Steph. CataL ii. 195. No. 7185. 



Anterior wings griseous-brown, dotted and clouded with black and ashy- 

 yellowish atoms, with two larger spots towards the apex ; on the hinder 

 margin is a yellowish waved line of dots, and a few obsolete ones on the 

 costa : posterior wings ashy-grey. 



Found in June in gardens within the metropohtan district ; not 

 common. 



Sp. 6. Betulea. Aiis anticis subangustisfuscis,ptinctis saturatioribus albidisque, 

 posticis cinereo-fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 7§ — 8 lin.) 



Re. Betulea. Haivorth. — An. Betulea. Steph. CataL ii. 185. No. 7186. 



Anterior wings rather narrow fuscous, with some darker spots disposed in a 

 longitudinal streak, in general alternating with some whitish ones, and 

 forming an interrupted streak ; on the apex of the costa and on the hinder 

 margin are some blackish dots, forming an obtuse-angulated row : posterior 

 wings pale ashy-brown. 



Taken at Birch wood and in the New Forest in June ; also some- 

 times at Darenth wood. 



Sp. 7. Zephyrella. Alis anticis fuscis, atomis punctisque nigris, posticis cinereo- 

 fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 7§ lin.) 



Tin. Zephyrella. Hubner, TL pL 62. f. 414 5- /• 415 9- 



Anterior wings ashy-brown, with numerous black atoms and spots, disposed 

 irregularly, forming a slender longish stripe on the costa, and an adjoining 

 larger spot, with a more conspicuous one on the disc towards the hinder 

 margin, which is also slightly spotted with black, and has yellowish cilia: 

 posterior wings ashy-brown. 



Of this distinct species I have long possessed a pair unnamed in 

 my cabinet, one of which I caught myself in the neighbourhood of 

 London; the other was taken, I beUeve, in the New Forest, in 

 June. 



