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or simply coloured with a darker roundish patch at the apex ; their 

 palpi are also rather stouter, more incurved, and the posterior wings 

 are more amply ciliated. 



A. Anterior wings with an abbreviated central fascia extending nearly from 



the base to the apex : — Prays, p. Hiibner. 



Sp. 1. Curtisella. Alis anticis niveis, fascia lata media abbreviatd cosia, basi 

 margineque postico nigro-fuscis. (Exp. Alar. 8 — 8| lin.) 



Ph. Ti. Curtisella. Donovan, v. ii. pi. 65, f. 4.— Yp. Curtisella. Steph. Catal. 

 ii. 203. No. 7275. 



Anterior wings snow-white, sprinkled with fuscous at the base, the costa 

 from near the base to the middle brown-black, which colour is dilated on 

 the disc, and forms an abbreviated broad triangular fascia; the hinder 

 margin with some confluent black spots, forming a border : posterior wings 

 and all the cilia leaden-brown. 



Variable : in some examples the large dark costal spot on the anterior wings 

 is sprinkled with whitish ; others with lutescent on a creamy ground ; in 

 some the hinder margin is also more or less varied with whitish. 



Not very uncommon in hedges and gardens throughout the metro- 

 politan district, in June and July. I have frequently taken it at the 

 Hermitage, and also at Hertford and Ripley. 



B. Anterior wings yellowish, with a complete dark central fascia : — Clysia, 



Hubner. 

 Sp. 2. amhiguella. Alis anticis Jlavicantibus, medio fascia magna nigra. (Exp. 



Alar. 6—7i lin.) 

 Ti. ambiguella. HiibneK.—Yi). ambiguella. Steph. Catal. ii. 204. A o. 7277. 

 Anterior wings ochreous, with a broad entire black fascia, dilated towards the 



costa, and obscurely spotted with brown, in the middle ; the apex slightly 



fuscescent on the costa : posterior wings dusky-white, with yellowish silken 



cilia. 



Also very rare : it has been found near Darenth wood in July, 

 and likewise near Coombe, and in the New Forest, near Brockenhurst, 

 whence my specimen was obtained. 



C. Anterior wings with more than one transverse fascia : — Scythropia, 



p. Hubner. 

 Sp. 3. Cratsegella. Alis anticis albidis,fasciis duabus tertiaque terminali nigri- 



cantibus. (Exp. Alar. 5—7 lin.) 

 Ph. Ti. Cratsegella. Z/nw^.— Yp. Crataegella. Steph. Catal. ii. 204. No. 7276. 

 Anterior wings whitish, mottled with ashy or fuscescent clouds, with a 



distinct slightly incurved dusky fascia before the middle, and a second 



