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Anterior wings lilack, with a slightly rosy mark on the costa anteriorly, and 

 an indistinctly interrupted fascia behind purplish-white: posterior wings 

 leaden-black, with fuscous cilia. 



Rather variable in colour, the wings being at times much paler. 



Not very common : taken within the metropolitan district, in the 

 vicinity of Daren th and Birch woods, in June. 



Sp. 31. decorclla. A/is anticis nigro-fuscis fascia hasi alter aque posticd albis, 

 viaculaque media ochracea, posticisfiiscis. (Exp. Alar. 6 — C^ lin.) 



Ti. decorella. Haworth. — An. decorella. Steph. Catal. ii. 127. No. 7206. 



Anterior wings black-brown, with a broad fascia at the base, extending to the 

 iinier margin and recurved towards the costa, and a straight one near the 

 hinder margin, white, in the former are two minute distinct black dots, and 

 between them on the disc is an ochreous, or rosy, blotch, and a slight tint 

 of the same colour behind the second ; the ground colour on the costa forms 

 two triangular patches, and towards the apex it is finely irroratcd with 

 ochrey-white; cilia the same: posterior wings fuscous. 



Scarce: found in tlic neighbourhood of London, at Darenth wood, 

 and also in Norfolk, in June. 



Sp. 32. mannorea. AUs anticis nigro alio rufoque variis suhnebulosis, posticis 

 fuscescentibus. (Exp. Alar. 6 lin.) 



Re. marmorea. Haworth. — An. marmorea. Steph. Catal. ii. 196. No. 7208. 



Anterior wings narrow, elongated, the basal half of the costa black, inter- 

 rupted by an oblique white streak posteriorly, and behind the middle are 

 two irregular reddish spots, placed one behind the other : posterior wings 

 brownish. 



Also rare: taken in June in the New Forest, and near Birch 

 wood, and in Norfolk. 



Sp. 33. guttifera. Alis anticis atris albo punctatis, posticis 7iigris. (Exp. 

 Alar. 5—5^ lin.) 



Re. guttifera. Haworth. — An. guttifera. Steph. Catal. ii. 197. No. 7209. 



Anterior wings narrow, deep black, with a small blotch at the inner margin 

 white, two dots before the middle, one on the costa and the other on the 

 inner margin, and two others similarly placed behind the middle, white: 

 posterior wings black : head and thorax white. 



Apparently very rare : found occasionally near London, in June, 

 and in Scotland. 



Sp. SI. atra. Alis anticis atris, marginc inter iore obsolete cincreo, posticis 

 J'uscis, cdiii plumbeis. (Exp. Alar. 5 — 6 lin.) 



